I really thought "Get it drunk first" was going to be one of the four options.

@SkillTree

Жыл бұрын

I mean.... that's a given

@jevanfrancis7653

Жыл бұрын

Given the amount of alcohol used on those tranfers😂

@SandraOrtmann1976

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it works if you breathe the alcohol onto the leather. But it sets the mood.

@PleaseNThankYou

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha ha, ohhhh. Hahhahaha

@musewinter9369

8 ай бұрын

I fully regret this joke isnt going to be made

I own a very similar tattoo gun I use to do my own tattoos. Important note with the needle skipping, the black grip part near the tip should twist/tighten. That actually sets the depth of your needle, so you don't have to stay as far away from the art to get it not to skip.

(Sandi) In my woodburning kit there is an embossing/tranferring tool. It uses the heat of the stylus to be transferred through a disk-shaped attachment to transfer gtafite or ink to a surface via gentle heat. Works on wood, might work on leather.

Love that you show the process and failed attempts as you go. Really helpful and encouraging when I try something new and don’t get it the first time. As always love your vids!

For adding detailed images to your leather, and make it feel even more authentic, I would try doing Pyrography! You'll need a wood burning tool, and I'd recommend the ones that have a silver metallic box as a stand, and has a wire connecting them. Burning a design into leather gives it a dark brown burnt look where you've used the tool, and it burns a slight groove into the leather. I can highly recommend it, having done detail work on a lot of leather armours this way.

@popscratchie3985

2 ай бұрын

What brand pyrography tool do you use?

Honestly never considered doing this for leather before or seen it done until now. It's a very interesting thing to look into now for leather projects, especially ones with a lot of tiny details. Thanks for another amazing video!

@SkillTree

Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU for watching 😁

I'd love to see you do some durability tests on these methods to figure out which ones could last on, say, a flexible piece of armour, or outside in the rain. It could be cool to get some of those inkbox tattoos you mentioned that use dye rather than sticking ink to the surface, as well as things like pyrography and henna.

Just yesterday another channel I subscribe to was showing off almost the same tattoo machine you used with some modified cartridges for tooling leather and down the rabbit hole I went. First, the tooling cartridges look cool and I have to get some. But I came across another video that did tattoo the leather and was talking about the splattering. His solution, which looks to work, was to coat the piece in PVA glue, let it dry, tattoo it, dry it again and then wash off the glue. The outcome looked absolutely wicked.

I've seen folks using temporary tattoos on tumblers, but never on leather. I'm loving this idea! I made a Wavy Thing on a Stick (flag) with my favorite knight's sigils on it for a ren fair - I printed out the sigils on regular paper, turned them into stencils, taped them down really well and used spray paint. Turned out sharp, and he loved seeing it in the crowd. He even signed it!

You could also burn patterns into the leather using a soldering iron.

@SkillTree

Жыл бұрын

Good call! I should have included that one

@christraven

Жыл бұрын

There are tools specifically made for burning patterns into leather. My worry would be that a soldering iron might get too hot.

@Johny_5

Жыл бұрын

@@SkillTree Not to mention that laser engraver of yours!

Have you considered tooling the leather after the tattoo but, before you filled it in. I think it would give it a more 3D effect. Then fill it in to shade in the recesses and give it depth, and maybe highlights. Thanks, great video, keep it up. John S.

I wonder if putting a light layer of resist on the leather would minimise the splashmarks 🤔 The ink would still be going under the surface with the needle. I might try this with my stick&poke needles. And I could maybe try using a leather dye as ink, since they are way cheaper 😂

another part of actually tattooing leather... youre not limited to "safe" tattoo ink, the animal is dead and youre working with leather, you could use gasoline to tattoo for all you care, that gives you options colourwise that you wouldnt normally have like "black 3.0" for example or the brightest pink etc etc, as long as its liquid you should be able to use it in a tattoo gun (to tattoo leather)

@isayinyang93

Жыл бұрын

XD technically you could use fluorescent ink from a highlighter, or maybe even metallic acrylic paint?? Damn now I want to know if that is possible, imagine a fine and detailed metallic detail on your leather armor

@vhaelen326

Жыл бұрын

@@isayinyang93 as i said the main reason why you "cant" do that when tattooing people is because interesting inks/paints/liquids tend to be... 'not good' for the human body but the leather is dead allready so there are far less health concerns, if its a liquid you can probably stuff it into a tattoo gun, things like acrylic or oil paints might be a bit to thick but with the correct thinning medium it should be more then possible, you could MAYBE even tattoo ACTUAL metal into the leather in cases of metals that are liquid at room temperature, gallium for example, tho that would pose its own problems, most kinds of paint become solid by evaporating their liquid medium, alcohol based paints come to mind, where as something like gallium doesnt evaporate its moisture it just solidifies due to temperature, so gallium tattoo'd leather armor, great for winter larp, not so great for summer larp

Seems to me you could combine the tattooing method with the airbrush method using a diluted dye solution to add gradient, color, etc. for more complex designs.

I've made transfers with my ink jet printer and butcher's paper. Worked perfectly. No alcohol required, but you have to move fairly quickly before the ink dries. Also, just a sharpie works good too if you are into free handing a design. The tattoo gun, man that is brilliant! Going to get me one!

@kachirro

Жыл бұрын

Interesting that you mentioned sharpie... I sometimes transfer images by tracing with sharpie to bleed it onto the leather. Love the tattoo method for making really intricate pieces.

Very cool can't wait to see you integrate this into some other projects.

My mind is totally blown. 100% excited because I don't have patience for tooling.

Great. Very Informative. Thank You for taking the time to make this video.

Love your enthusiasm and creativity.

OH MY GOSH!!!! I've been trying to do this for ages!!! Thank you for covering it!!!

Very inspirational on the tattoo gun. Thanks for this! Gonna research this more.

Ah my two favorite things! Tattoos and leather work!

I actually have a bunch of temporary tattoo printer paper. I use it a lot when adding details to some accessories. It’s much more seamless then that iron on paper. Right now I’m mid moving so my stuff is packed but I can’t wait to start again

@SkillTree

Жыл бұрын

I need to buy some and try it out!

Honestly for your first time tattooing I am insanely impressed! I watched Andy from HTME do tattoo practice sheets and they paled in comparison to this. Well done!

That's honestly pretty cool and for the first time really nice

A high quality wood burner with adjustable heat settings also works very well, low heat and some practice and you can save a lot of money not buying tattoo ink all the time. Plus you can dye over it without fear of messing up the design.

That is sick!! i have wanted to do this for a while now

Honestly, since there's 233 comments, rather than scroll through I'll just say 'Almost every one of my fellows in leathercraft interesting in these types of transfers purchased laser engraving machines to scour imagery into leather.' They're not cheap, but all it takes is scanning the image the lasers are meant to duplicate. Good Luck in the new year.

Thats awesome. very cool idea.

Oooooh! You did it you crazy bastard! I thought about the temporary tattoos and then... never got around to trying... such great result! Great video. I still won't get around to actually doing it myself xD

That first reveal was hilarious.

I've been tattooing leather for years, but never thought about the temporary tattoo printer idea, that's great!

That's awesome. I never thought to tattoo leather before

Love love your videos! You Crack me up and I learn so much! I've done jet print transfers with Mod Podge, unto tile and know it works on wood too. I'll keep watching!

I love these ideas and now i really want to get a tattoo gun just to do this with! Other alternative methods I've used to traditional tooling: - Woodburning - Dremel - Laser-printer The laser printer was tricky because I had to figure out just the right setting to engrave the leather without burning through it, but once i figured that out, it produced a really cool look that basically looks like a finely-detailed branding.

Tooling and Tattooing leather looks absolutely amazing by the way, also helps if the leather is a little wet.

As long as you print it with a laser printer, doing an acetone transfer works like applying a temporary tattoo, you're just using acetone rather than water.

Brilliant!

If you have thin enough leather you can just run it through the printer.

That’s really cool

I have a feeling that a laser cutter with the correct settings would totally blow this away. I do like the idea of tattoo transfers.

As much as I love your reckoning videos I'm so glad your back I missed these kinda videos. And next reckoning you could do a leather tattoo booth thatd be fun

Awesome!

That was dope

My roommate just got that tattoo gun and I had the same idea about using it when she showed it to me last week. Now I know it works I may be borrowing it or getting my own.

Cool ideas, the only thing that I can think that may be worth trying is going back and carving some parts of those images to try and add a little more depth to them.

Ok that is really cool. Only ever marked leather like that using a laser cutter, I'll have to try this out.

You should combine the two. Add a tattoo and then do tooling around it, make it really pop.

Cl3ver look up the reverse weeding method, it makes working with intricate venal way easier to work with because you can have a sticky surface to remove the ones you don't want to stay in place.

I'd love to see you try combining tooling with any of these techniques, plus painting the leather, maybe throw in some gilding? That way you could have a really multi-dimensional piece!

you can try rubber stamps and ink pad, if you get an archival/water fast ink it will stand up to dying etc

Dope! I accidentally discovered this channel by searching for this. *subscribed*

Acetone would probably work better for image transfer than ipa. There is also sublimation (heat & pressure transfer) and a glue type medium you stick the image down with wand then wet and rub off the paper with.

Laser engraving for leather tattoos and thanks for the great content

@SkillTree

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

@leumas322

Жыл бұрын

@@SkillTree I found your channel a few weeks ago and I have been binge watching every episode. So fun

Would the tattoo one take a dye? Love it.

I've done a bunch of amateur leather work and I wanted to let you know that. I've also used a wood burner on the leather as tattooing

Guy! This is epic. Looks like I need to get myself a cheap tattoo gun lol!

on top of your coin video, this is a sign to do more for my groups cosplay/larp outfits

I have never tried it for leather, but when I was a kid an my mom worked at an arts and crafts boutique, she used to make custom embossed cards from her stamp collection. Maybe doing a heat embossed stamp/image to make a a faux gilding look?

I'm inspired to try this.

Oil-based markers/pens also work well for creating designs with a stencil or vinyl pattern.

You can buy temporary tattoo paper to print your own art for this. Super cool!

My sick mind at times worries me. A battle banner of patches of tattoo leather sewn together. Each patch was taken from a victory on the battle field

When I was working with teens at the library, we did a henna tattoo event. To transfer the (ink-jet) patterns to the skin, we used a q-tip and a small bottle of essential oils (peppermint, not that it matters). Then you press the image where you want it on the oiled skin and hold it down for a few seconds. Best part, when you peel it off, you can use the henna directly on top of the ink and it stains the skin exactly the way it should!

If you want to do the temporary tattoo idea I highly recommend Momentary Ink and Inkbox. I used Momentary Ink when I was testing out a tattoo idea before I got my actual tattoo, and the customer service is amazing!

The leather finds out that Clever is a cheap AND easy date.

@SkillTree

Жыл бұрын

This is accurate

I use laser toner prints and wet the back with nail varnish remover to decorate leather or leave the design on to them paint or what ever. Also if you finish the leather first, then tattoo it, you will be able to wipe off the spray

Very cool 😀

Ahhhh more things I wanna do! I can only have so many hobbies.....or cant I? Hahaha. Thank you for this amazing video and learning from your happenstances! Totally going to try this on my leathers!

I can't recall, have you ever embossed leather? On a thick piece you shave the high points from the back and then wet the leather and stretch use a spade tool to push it from the back for free hand style or you make a raised wooden form that you press it over from the front.

You sir are insane and I love you

Ohh interesting. Also thank you for clarifying what type of printer is needed. So many times I’ve seen tutorials not mention if an inkjet or laser printer is needed

Looks good! Tattooing leather is a great idea! I person liked the results of the tattoo gun. Leather Pro rap by is cool, too! One more skill for the tool box. Or is it the infinity bag?😁

Im definitely gonna pick up some of that transfer paper so i can use it for making stencils. I intend to dremel in my designs rather than tattoo though

I both love and hate you so much, I love your videos they're fantastic and so easy to follow and try out myself.... I hate you because I'm spending so much money trying all these awesome projects. Keep it up though. I may go bankrupt but so worth it!!

When I was a kid we used to do the printer paper transfer for temporary tattoos. We would draw simple designs with sharpie. It worked, but they were always blurry

Use a laser jet for the transfer ..it works best with a gloss paper

This is frigging cool as Hells

I love the videos. Did you consider or try to use leather dye as ink instead of tattoo ink?

@ShugoAWay

Жыл бұрын

Probably a consistency issue bud

Have you thought about using water slide decals?

Pretty sure I've seen UV and Glow tattoo ink used in photos, that could be really cool on some armor or a grimoire.

You can also get ballpoint pen cartriges that work better imo, if you are good at drawing then you can even shade portrits of people, oh and there are lots of colours too.

Diode laser I have one it works pretty good at transferring images to leather.

Tattooing the leather feels like a great way to 'enchant' leather in a fantasy setting. Half way imagining a leather armor decked out in Maori Tribal tattoowork. That'd be sick.

I have a project request! I go to sca event and often camp for days. After a full day of fighting, dancing, walking, and just existing in all the dirt, I would give anything for a hot bath! Do you think you could come up with a camp bathtub? Something that collapses for travel? A way to soak aching muscles and wash away the dirt of battle?! Mr. Bubbles has lite the beacons, bathers call for aid!!!

idk if it would work with leather but we did something like that on wood we glued it to our piece of wood and rubbed away all the paper with our fingers and some water and that worked amazingly

This is awesome. Thanks for showing the mess ups. As a DIY guy, I can tell you, I have plenty of "great idea, but it looks like crap" projects. My kids can attest to this.

I wonder if you put resist on the leather before tattooing if it would help with the splatter

When I do the ink transfer I use magazine paper to print on.. it also works well with laser printers that use the powder and not the wax ink (copiers work as well) ... the other possibility is use your laser (CO2 and Diode) to engrave the leather... note it smells but works really well ...

Are your tattoo images available to your viewers? Thank you for sharing

I did this a while back in a your tube video , Paint the leather in PVA glue it will stop the blots and splatter then just wash it off afterwards ATB Bruce

Apparently perfume and cologne uses ethanol. Rubbing Alcohol just doesn't cut it and is too harsh from what I read. I just tired it with regular printer paper and some old cologne and it worked great.

Has anyone tried henna on leather? It would only dye the surface since no needles but might be a cheap interesting way of getting a similar look

I actually had an idea for D&D where an eldritch night had his spells tattooed into his leather armor and whenever he wanted to cast a spell it would make that rune glow. Like if he wanted to use a flight spell there would be a rune on his back that would glow and spectral wings would come out of his armor

I've given leather prison tats by scoring the shape with an awl and coming back through with a gel pen, ball point pen, permanent marker, or just the awl point dipped in leather dye. The pens give it the same gray-ish faded look a prison tat has, which could be preferable in some applications.

I'm thinking using vasaline ontop of the dry image will keep the skin clean ?

You could use a stipple painting brushes for dying the leather. Stipple paint brushes come in many sizes and materials.

I've used temporary tattoos on the covers of books before, I do not recommend using glitter tattoos they tend to be sticky

You know, this could be used for a necromantic banner, stitching pieces of leather together of different thicknesses and softness, having some pieces having been tattoo'd "before being harvested" there

So once you do your tattoo or transfer could you chase the art with your tooling to give it some dimension? Say the eye sockets and teeth in your tattoo at the end?