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Product Assembly Exploration

01.)
First a scrap piece of card that
would otherwise be thrown out 02.)
is cut into the shape of the lanyard 04.)
that is intended to be made. 03.)
Then a spare scrap piece of leather is
cut to the shape of the card and applied With the card placed securely behind,
Note: There is a rectangular piece shown centre area is cut but not the entire
at the bottom in a darker colour and this over the card. the one half that has the card behind it amount where the picture will be
indicates it is on top of the lighter shade. is put into a vacumn former and this
displated.
Note: The lighter colour thin piece going
around the entire shape is recessed,
this will be relevant later

07.) a ledge for the ID card to rest on when inserted, this also ensures that the
05.) 06.) card can be hidden from view at the back when the leather layer is applied.
Then a piece of Clear Plastic Vinyl
Then with the vacumn forming As there was a few millimitres 07.) is also cut out and this would be Alternatively this could be a piece of leather if the card material was
process completed, the thinner of leather left within the cutting slightly bigger than the rectangular removed in slide 06.).
part of card is removed. area, this then could be folded Basically a repeat of slide 04.) and 06.) cut out that the ID will show through
neatly in on top of the card on the (there is a reason.) and its width would be just short of
opposite side. where the sititching line
Alternatively the card could be
removed altogether but for now
it stays.

Then the Carve On Logo
could either be debossed
or lasered on or whatever.
Would
eventually
look like this after
stitching.
10.)
09.) Then the whole this is stitched together.
Then the back leather is placed on
the Clear Vinyl plastic. Then for the part we were “heatedly” discussing earlier.
The 3 or 4mm line surrounding the cutout for the ID would be debossed. I think it would make it look a bit more aesthetic.

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