Making Leather Patch Hats and How to Make a Living In Your Garage! Powered By 2 Glowforge Pro Lasers
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2021
- I left an engineering firm of 18 years to do this? My wife left her job to help me do this!? YES!!!! We have created a thriving successful business in our garage with a goal of half a million dollars in sales this year.
Take a look at our shop and what it looks like by the end of the week! An absolute wreck but if it isn't a mess it means you have too much time to clean.
Drop a comment below if you are a home based garage business and tell us what you are making. Subscribe to our channel and give us a thumbs up if you are a hustling entrepreneur too!
See the links below on everything we use and make.
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The legal stuff: We do not work for Glowforge and were not paid in any way to post or make this video. The Glowforge referral program is part of the perk for being a Glowforge owner. When you save $500 on your Glowforge Pro with our link, we get $500 through the referral program. When you save $250 on the Plus model with our link, we get $250 through the referral program. This is all taxed at the end of each year by receiving a 1099 form you are responsible for filing with your federal taxes. Once you get your Glowforge you can then inspire others and get the affiliate rewards just like us and other owners. Owners also get a discount on proof grade materials. You can choose not to cash out your referral money and instead use it as a credit on the Glowforge store to purchase materials or another Glowforge. This is all 100% legal and posted in the Glowforge Referral Program Terms on their website.
We are an affiliate for Weaver Leather Supply. By using our Leather and Leather Tools link above, we get a small percentage of the purchase back from Weaver Leather Supply.
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I love seeing people start there own company and make it big good job wish you the best in the future.
Man i appreciate your vids you inspire me to take my glowforge serious. Thanks much love to you and your family!!
Thank you so much 🙌
Astonishingly cool business model! Continual success guys! ,🤞👍
I love the craftsmanship! Awesome work.
Thank you
Great videos, we just purchased a Glowforge Pro with your link this afternoon. Looking forward to joining the Glowforge community.
Awesome. We appreciate you and can't wait to hear what you make!
You are killin it big dog! Way to grind 💯
Glad to see you guys are expanding! What is your recommendation when it comes to the type of leather? Veg tanned or chrome tanned? I have been reading mixed reviews of lasering chrome tanned leather due to harmful gases it can create.
What type of adhesive do you guys use on your hat? Have you by chance made a video on the patch application process? I am looking at making a few hat and don’t have a way to sew. them on.
Great video you've sold me on the glow forge. How do you adhere the patch to the hat? I'm actually more interested in your garage how did you seal it to guarantee the hat stay clean
any ideas on sealants to keep different color leathers from running when in rain for example? or hats being "cleaned or washed" when dirty?
Is there a certain brand of leather glue you find most affective? Do you press the hats to ensure it bonds well? Or just glue and set and move on?
Hi, Great videos, thank you. Which leather do you use for the patches? Thx.
Can you do a video on how you finish the actual patch colors etc.
Been struggling on getting my patches to stay on. What backing to stick them on do you use? Do you cut it with the laser too to get the perfect size?
hello I just bought a laser through your link that is in the video information, I would love it if you could give me information about where you buy the caps and what glue you use to stick it. Thank you
If I may ask, how do you get the adhesive on the back of the leather?
How are you attaching the patches to the hats??
This is really inspiring to me. I have recently retired and purchased the GlowForge Pro for doing some wood projects. I'm very interested in doing some leather projects as well. I'm new to all of this and I'm curious if I would need a special software program to create logos or do people actually send those to you? Thanks so much. I enjoy your videos
Hey just catching this. We design and have designs provided. We use Adobe Illustrator.
Do you make leather patches with velcro backing? If so what adhesive are you using for the leather patch (think morale patch).
what kind of adhesieve are you using on your leather hat patches? they heat pressed or?
Love your vids man. Can you do one one patch staining?
Hey Even we don't stain the patches. We do apply a sealant. There are so many out there and they effect each leather differently.
What program do you use for your shipping invoices
on the website for the leather you use, what one do you buy?
Looks awesome man I was wondering what leather exactly do you use I went to the website and did not know what to pic
We like the Redrock but there are a lot of great options. Just try and stay in the 3-4oz range for thickness.
love those hats as a whole, but.. love the hat style itself. Where do you purchase those from?
Thanks! So many different vendors online.
Hello, I like your channel a lot. Could you let me know where you buy the leather?
Great business. I did not see a leather sewing machine. How are your patches attached, sewn on or adhesive?
All applied by hand with leather bond.
What accounting software do you use?
What kind of laser do you use?
Where can I buy the blank tracker hat?
Love your videos and your patches! ! You guys are inspiring. I do have the most random question. Where did you get your rack for your hats? It’s perfect 🙌🏻
Thanks so much Nicole! These came from Lowes I believe. Or Home Depot. I can't remember which but they both have the same ones.
@@PGHATCO What is your average cost per patch using the GF? Thanks for the inspiration & the videos!!
How do you order them in bulk?
What settings do you use on the glowforge for the patches?
All leather is different. I'd start with the stock glowforge settings for thick leather
Do you buy whole sale from Richardson ?
What size box do you use for shipping your single cap orders, what supplier do you use?
8x8x6. We use uline
Inspiring videos. Can you tell me if you’re stitching the leather on or using a certain glue? I’ve seen some using a machine for sewing them but didn’t know if that’s what you do or if it’s worth it
Thanks Brad. All of our patches are bonded with a leather adhesive. We have used it on upwards of 80k hats at this point. There are lots of leather glues out there to try and see what works best. The stitching looks great but honestly...we don't have that capability with the amount of hats we are producing unless we hire people to stitch all day. Can't do that out of our home. Maybe one day when we get our shop built or our kids get old enough to learn the craft ;)
@@PGHATCO that’s awesome man. Congrats on all the business and building y’all are doing
Hello Love your video. Can you tell me how you adhere the patch to the hat? I am a new glowforge owner. Love it so far. thanks
We use leather glue
@@PGHATCO which brand of glue do you use? do you heatpress after?
Where do you buy the hats I would love to try make on myself thanks from Scotland
Plenty of hat distributors online.
Do you laser any prefinished leather patches? Or you cut from natural and then Stain and clear coat. ?
The leather is pre tanned
Thank you for your videos! We have a wood shop that we have been using with a CNC machine. All was great but your videos inspired our small business to invest in the glowforge. We added these leather patch hats to our product line and is already our best seller. The only trouble we have is ordering the richardson hats. We had to use other brands but we really want richardson. Who is your supplier if you dont mind me asking? Thank you!
It's a nightmare. Probably same suppliers as you and others.
How do you attach them? We were clamping with E6000 but bought the 360IQ hat press to make the job easier but getting the proper thermo adhesive sheets is proving to be a challenge. Also having a hard time finding a consistent supplier - really would rather not be going through Alibaba? And chance you want to show your supplier some love?? ;)
We get all of our leather adhesive from our leather supplier :)
@@PGHATCO Is it the S18?
Been watching your videos for a couple months now. Thank you for all the advise you share. Was wondering if you could tell me what glue you use to adhere your real leather patches. We just started and we use the synthetic patches that come with adhesive backing. Thinking of trying real leather
Have you ever thought about getting a faster laser?
We looked into several other lasers before making the purchase of our Glowforge. For our business model and setup and space this machine works best for us. I know there are faster machines out there but they are gigantic in comparison to a desktop laser like the GF. Just our personal preference :)
I own a Christian apparel company. I have the hats and the hottronix hat press. Can you make me a bulk order of leather patches ?
Do you have any videos coming of what adhesive you're using to keep them on the hats? Can't find any answer for that anywhere.
Hey, just got my laser last year and ready to start selling hats, I was wondering how you promote your hats/ get your ideas, I’ve got a few ideas but nothings working. Thanks
Congrats! I have just always been idea driven. I just use the normal social media outlets. Not TikTok. Then I let our customers do the advertising once they wear our hats.
I saw on your site you sewn in your brand. Did you do it yourself?
Hey Christopher! Thanks for checking our site out also. Those are our private label hats we had made along with our brand logo on the inside.
Do you stick to one particular style of hat when ordering hats or do you buy many different styles?
We primarily do trucker hats in Richardson and Yupoong brand but do special order requests all the time.
@@PGHATCO ok, thank you for the fast response! I may be contacting you in the future for help. I just ordered my GF and am very interested in doing hats. I just have no idea how to get started.
Are you a Mon-Fri shop? I would think this is a 24/7 type business but you mention that it’s Friday and the shops a mess.
It is 24/7 man!
CRAZY QUESTION... but what size box are you using for your hat shipments?
Single hats up to 3 hats use an 8x8x6 box
@@PGHATCO let me know if I can help you with your shipping supplies. I’m sure I can save you money on boxes, tape, etc.
How do you use something like the GM logo to print for someone's hat and make profit off it???? I thought you can't use that on TM items for profit
Well the guy that works for GM made the order, sent the logo for their department. I'm sure he got permission. And it was 2 hats so it's not like we are selling them with a GM logo for profit. It was an employee to wear to work at GM.
@@PGHATCO hey bud I wasn't trying to be rude lol. I was just curious how that works.
@@sofloemir ha all good I wasn't either 😎
How do you attach the patches to the hats?
They are bonded with leather glue
@@PGHATCO Hello I subbed and got into doing hats because of this video. I been trying to get something going with my Glowforge for months now and never thought about hats until I seen your video, so thank you. But I have 2 questions and would greatly appreciate it if you will answer for me please?
First what glue do you use and second what sealant do you use or can recommend? Thank you so much for the info.
@@PGHATCO What brand leather glue do you use? What do you use to treat/seal the leather?
Do you order directly from Richardson?
We don't. They require a pretty insane minimum order.
does the leather stink when you engrave it? ive done some wallets with my glowforge with fake leather. i ordered some leather from your link and am hoping it doesn't stink the house up.
We can't smell it with out external filter running. But anything real or fake leather for sure isn't going to smell good when it's getting burned
@@PGHATCO How often do you have to change the air filter? Can you clean and re-use the filter?
@@Awesome_MN we replace ours every few months because of how much we use both machines through the single filter. They are out of stock right now so yesterday we took the drop in filter out and blew it out with our air compressor. Not saying this is recommended vs replacing but needed to while we wait.
@@PGHATCO Do you use a carbon pre-filter as some recommended? Notice any smells? I'm wanting to setup in my garage or a spare room but am concerned about the smell when venting outside.
@@PGHATCO Do you turn off the internal fan? Is one glowforge air filter powerful enough to vent 2 machines running at the same time?
Because they probably have housekeeping
Where do you get your leather patches from?
We make our patches from full hides of leather. We don't buy blanks.
How much you earn by year?
We don't really like to talk about our earnings. But in the next 2 years we are shooting for 1 million in sales per year as a realistic goal.
@@PGHATCO I wanna live that dream
Where do you get your hats?
Multiple distributors. There are a ton if you search Richardson blanks
@@PGHATCO what is you’re prefer source?
Can you make me some Colorado flag leather patches ?
Absolutely
@@PGHATCO I’m in Denver can u plug me in ?
@@JoseFigueroa-cl9vj you can order from our site pghatco.com
wait..... you turn your computer off? ;)
Just Instagram messaged you . I can supply your inventory
Don't ask what glue or who his supplier is. He ghost everyone on those subjects..
Do you know how many times each week I get asked what glue and supplier, etc.
Google search will lead you to an abundance of products to try. See what works for you. What works for us in our environment my not have the same results for someone else.
This is our business. We learned and went through countless trial and error. We failed many times in the beginning. It helped us grow.
Why don't I tell people our exact process?
First of all, I don't want to be held responsible for someone product failing for a customer.
Second of all I always have encouraged people to try different brands of leather glues and adhesives. You can literally Google it and get solid results.
I'm not a teacher. There is no rule that says a crafter or businessperson has to tell anyone exactly how they do things.
We live in a world of "I need you to tell me or I'll blast you on social media".
hmmm why did my message dissappear. All I said was , what you are doing violates GlowForge Policy. If I am wrong correct me
We even had a meeting with Glowforge the other day and they have seen our videos. We follow all their rules regarding posting our affiliate link. Show me on their referral terms where we are violating them.
We reached out directly to our Glowforge contact asking if we were violating the Glowforge policy with our video and or channel. I gave them the direct link to this video with your comments just to make sure there were no issues. This was their direct response to our email: "Hey there - I did a quick peruse of the one video you linked to, and everything looked compliant."
Please do not flag my message as inapropriate. Please read the agreement
This in no way violates any terms with their referral program rules. It clearly states the owner can post their link on their own social media platforms or website.