jontherigger

Hi, Thanks for the replies, I don't yet have a sewing machine for leather and would like some guidance as to something suitable. Singers seem to be readily available secondhand and there is a bewildering number of different types. There is a 7-27 twin needle, several 45K's, 29K's around but not having any experience of machine sewing leather I'm not sure what to go for. Would a cylinder arm or a flat bed machine be most useful? I like the idea of an inside out tube - sneaky... Jon

Hi, I am looking for advice on machining leather onto wire rope. At the moment I do all this by hand and it's just taking way too much time, could someone advise me how to do this and with what sort of machine. The leather is veg tan about 1/8" and the wire is usually 5/8" to 1" in diameter before leathering. The wire is straight before leathering and then the eye is formed afterwards, I understand that the look of it will be slightly different. My local sailmaker uses a roping foot which looks suspiciously like an ordinary foot with one side ground off so he can sew close up to rope, would something like this work? Thanks Jon