Custom Makes by Jake

09/01/2026

After her buying her husband's Father's Day gifts from me at a craft show, to him buying 100 coozies for his business the day after he received his, to her ordering a couple of special keychains for their anniversary. I was glad we agreed on a leatherette keychain that I had in stock and knocked it out that same day on my xTool F2 after getting the design approved. The little custom gifts like this are a huge passion of mine, because there is a lot of thought and effort that goes into it from both myself and the customer, and at the end of the day we can both be proud of the gifts that we've created together.

09/01/2026

Being a small business taking care of your customers means everything. I have been lucky enough to have a few companies and individuals now that have come back me multiple times because of the quality and price I can provide. From these UV printed patches, bag tags, and keychains cut on my xTool P2 to the leather coasters done on my F2, a huge shout out to all of you for trusting in me to provide you a quality product.

Please let me know what I can make for you, and let's get to work!

09/01/2026

We had a lot of fun out at The Chamber - Serving Northern Waukesha County's annual golf outing. We personalized over 150 leather golf bag tag tee holders on-site for the golfer with the F2. Chamber logo was engraved ahead of time while the tees were all engraved on my F1 while I was running logos.

I can't wait to do it again next year, and looking forward to working together with everyone that took the time to talk with me about promotional items!

Big thank you to Kevin Ehlert from Club Dynamics Group for the amazing help during the outing! Photographs courtesy of Kevin and ALT Imagery

08/24/2026

I love seeing the excitement when people get a custom gift we are able to make for them. I know it was a surprise, but also a fun little thing for us to do for our friends at the campground.

Our neighbor surprised us this weekend with coasters with our faces on them! Shout out to Custom Makes by Jake for these sweet designs! We love them!

08/23/2026

Spent a few hours making custom coaster for the families around us at our campground. Also did a few keychains and aluminum flashlights for my Mom and kiddos. New business motto is going to be: Have laser, will travel!

All done with my xTool F2, it still amazes me the detail and speed this little machine has.

08/01/2026

Got a request to help out a fellow engraver and we knocked it out of the park with these tumblers for a friend of his. Big thank you to Hughston Bennett of HB Custom Hats for sending the order our way, and glad we could collaborate on our 10th-12th custom project in the last couple months. Turning into a great partnership between our small businesses!

08/01/2026

Little windy outside but we had a great day at the Menomonee Falls Farmer's Market. All made with my army of Xtool machines, and making personalized items on site with my F2.

07/13/2026

Got a text from someone who had seen me at an event a week prior, said I need something for our annual trip to go see DMB. They provided some artwork and I downloaded a special font just for their coaster openers and we worked through about 12 iterations within the early afternoon, and they were able to pick up 10 coaster openers that same evening since I had a few color options in stock. I hope they had a wonderful trip(both 25th anniversary and 25th time seeing them live!) and I know we will be working together again in the future for some hockey projects for Washington County Youth Hockey Assn. Knocked them out on my Xtool F2 using leather coaster openers from JDS Industries.

06/29/2026

I love it when people ask me during a show, "Hey I really like this design, can you put it on something like this(usually a vague description)?" Then I pull out the whole box of blank coozies from LoneStar Adhesive, pop it in the xTool F2, and a few minutes later they are walking away from my tent with a quality product in their hand that might have taken weeks to get from an Etsy store. Simply the best leatherette products available and the absolute best portable laser on the market!

06/01/2026

Working on Father's Day gifts while testing out the new META glasses. Golf ball texture leather coozies from LoneStar Adhesive and engraved on my F2. Stretched the image out slightly horizontally so that it looks more circular once a can is in the coozie. Cleaned up with a little bit of LA Awesome and microfiber cloth.

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I need to work on pointing my head down a little more or learn how to cut off the top 1/3 of the video from these glasses. I also need to declutter my workshop and tidy some things up.