Leather Coaster

This instructable tells you how to make a leather coaster with a picture burned into it with a soldering iron.

Step 1 Materials

- leather
- soldering iron or wood burner (either one works fine a wood burner is usually better though because it usually has removable tips that come in many different shapes and sizes)
- computer and printer to find and print a picture (unless you would like to draw by sight)
- scissors
- marker
- a safe surface to work on so you don't burn your mothers wooden dinner table or any other important surface ( a disposable aluminum pie pan works great)
- tape
- something sharp: a needle, bulletin board pin, safety pin

Comments

[phoebeh1]

hello..excellent instructable. But can you do this same method on vinyl?

[rschack]

I'm not sure. I have never worked with vinyl before. If you try though, let me know how it works out.

[rpatzman]

Looks great! A bit of advice for you. If you want to make perfect circles, go to a scrapbook store, or craft store that sells scrapbook supplies, and get a paper circle cutter, they work great for leather!

[rschack]

Thanks, I will have to try that. :)

[RedneckEngineer]

Nice way to transfer the patteren. I thought you did it a diff way but that works good!

[rschack]

It's a little time consuming, but it seems to work fine. You can also do things free hand, I'm still working on becoming better at drawing though, haha.