Learn How to Use Letters Properly in Leather Working

Video Transcript

"So just one more thing about using letters is sometimes, it gets a little bit confusing laying out a name because, well first of all if you look at a letter on a stamp, you're looking at it backwards. So, well, something like this letter "R", it's kind of easy to see how you might need to orient it on the leather. But it becomes a little more difficult if you're looking at something, I don't know, like the letter "N" or maybe like the "O", it might be better on one side rather than the other. So a lot of these tools, letter tools, they actually give you a little hint on the back. Which is if you can see here, this is the "N" stamp. It actually has the letter "N" kind of printed right here in the bottom of the stamp. So, what that tells you is when that stamp is up against a letter, you have that little kind of code letter that should be towards you, or towards the bottom. So I know if I set this up, this letter "N" for example, towards me with that letter there, I know that it's right. If it's like this, then I'm doing it wrong. So that can be helpful, even these little tiny stamps, I mean it's hard to see but if you look really careful, they have a little teeny, teeny, tiny guide letter there given to you that you know, that if that is oriented towards you, towards the bottom, you're doing it right side up. Just if, if you're going to do names, you're going to be doing things with letters, just make sure things are spelled properly and you're doing it in the right sequence because a lot of times you don't get much of a chance to kind of go back and fix something that you, that you did wrong. So it requires a little bit more extra attention."