Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Anyone out there know if it's possible to have an existing (or non-custom) glove embroidered? There's got to be a company that's able to do it...anyone ever have this done?

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I was wondering this exact thing. I know Nokona won't let you send it back to be embroidered. I called and asked them today (c;
Clint

Gloves are embroidered prior to assembly of the pieces, so it is difficult to embroider a fully assembled glove.

I do remember seeing someone online offering embroidery of finished gloves. I think it was $75 ot $80 for the service, and the place was in Brooklyn.

I don't know about embroidery, but I have seen people get their gloves stamped (like with metal iron branding tools). A girl on my softball team got hers done that way at one of our tournaments. She got her first and last name put on the thumb. I don't know if you can get script style lettering, but she got block style letters on her glove and it looks pretty cool.

I saw a guy in brooklyn NY does it on his website but it is not cheap. When I get home I will try to find the website.

yankees23 wrote:I saw a guy in brooklyn NY does it on his website but it is not cheap. When I get home I will try to find the website.

This guy will do it for $85 plus $15 s/h in Brooklyn...I'm guessing this is the person other posters mentioned. He says it takes about 4-6 weeks.

http://www.thesportsdoctor.com/embro.html

Here is the link.


http://www.thesportsdoctor.com/embro.html

I was at Downtown Disney in Orlando and the have a Rawlings section in one of the stores. They don't have many gloves, but you can buy one there or bring one in and they'll stitch your name as long as it's a Rawlings glove

Thanks for the link to the NY guy! I'll be sure and post before & after pics once the work is done.

red_sox_fan86 wrote:I was at Downtown Disney in Orlando and the have a Rawlings section in one of the stores. They don't have many gloves, but you can buy one there or bring one in and they'll stitch your name as long as it's a Rawlings glove

i'm totally intrigued by this process rsf86. do they put it on the thumb? i can't imagine them disassembling the glove just to get the embroidering on that small section on the back of the thumb. just to sew the thumb back to together would require turning the glove inside out and turning it outside in again.

you would think that the glove would become floppy after the whole "wringing out" of the leather.

Good point - it never occurred to me that embroidering a name on the thumb involved anything that might damage the glove. I'll definitely inquire about the process before sending off a piece of pristine leather. I'll post it as soon as I know anything.

If you go to the website it asks where you would like to have the stitching done. I am also curious to see the results especially for that price.

its not possible to embroidery a finished glove. If you understand sewing you know that you have to have the needle on top and the bobbin case on the bottom, can't get that in a glove. I have on rare occasions disassembled the entire thumb side of the glove, put name on thumb part and rewelted, turned, added rolling binding then relaced, not a job for a beginnner. The one easy chance is on a conventional buttom lap, they are fairly easy to remove, sometimes I add a name sometimes I add a oval label.

Bob

I'll be in Florida again in December and I'm going to give them a glove just to see how they do it.

Anybody know of anyone that does the branding? I like the idea of that on a black glove.