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Hey Jonas - really appreciate it - I have a starting point for the color match. I was going to try one of the Fil au Chinois threads because I figured it would be a natural fiber but I'm going to start with what you used and go from there. Thanks again!! Jim.

Thank you for the info, will check it out. Sounds easier than the silicon.

Going off my experience. I couldn't tell you who made trees for them - several commercial tree companies in business at the time. That rope roll and steel laced EVERYTHING was popular in the late 70s. Laced cantles only were popular for a long time. Tooling patterns on TexTans were always pretty simple and easy for a carving crew and I suspect some were press plate designs - not much of a way to date by that tooling for me. I bought a show saddle a little higher up the food chain in 1976 for $1280 and as I recall the better TexTan/Herefords were about $300-$400 less. In 1981 I bought one new and one lightly used Billy Cooks together for $2000.

I made a new case by expanding the case that came with my ray-bans, I was going to reuse the plastic frame that came with it by it cracked when I was taking it out. So taped it and reused it as a frame to wet mould some leather to mould the inner protection. I like how it came out, I saw this reverse clasp on other examples I had seen and liked the look of it.

oh, it sure would. It may be the best tech improvement to the woodstove since Franklin. Some pals made a very small one, and with twigs no bigger than my thumb, they melted a bunch of aluminum down to cast a 10 inch dragonfly ornament. I haven't got one yet, but it is also on my list. I kind of wonder how small it could be, while still re-burning the gasses...

The seller knows nothing about saddles - Inheirited. What year was this carving popular? What type of tree was usually used? And just for fun the approximate retail price the saddle sold for, I am going through my old western horsemen but in 2/3 of the time Tex Tan is advertising belts or stores that carry their saddles

That looks nice but I don't think it would be a good burner. No holes for airflow to the charcoal

piping always. There is a reason you use it in light leather goods, actually more than one lol.

I'm experimenting with different ways to stitch leather pieces together. Without the piping, you can see a little bit of the stitching when I turned the panel from the gusset. When I added the piping, the stitches disappeared entirely and the leather became much more cooperative with making the curve of this bag. I didn't skive the piping, panel, or gusset. I didn't add a wire/string in the piping. I just cut a narrow strip of leather from the gusset leather, applied glue, and forced it over with a bone folder, then punched the holes. I'm working with two $10 rolls of chrome tanned leather from a local hobby shop...low end stuff. I'm working on a tribute handbag of the highest end French maker. I didn't find any already produced patterns for this design, so I created the plan myself with help from chatgpt. AI is useful in the process, but I had to make adjustments for what seemed like faulty planning on its part.

Have you seen a rocket stove? It's the great-grandson of you BBQ lol? its on my bucket list of things to build.

You are welcome! This sometimes happens when you strip the 29K´s. You are not the first and for sure not the last with this problem. 😉 Have fun with your patcher.

I've made a few simple baccy pouches. I used material called 'rip stop'. Its sort of a nylon fabric, very thin, available in many colours. I glued it to the leather than sewed the pouch up

If the shooter is so particular about things I'd go the extra distance and use cow horn

I forgot about the expanded aluminium; I placed that on to stop my sausages falling thru the bars. The bars hinge up to put wood or charcoal under them for burning

Been making baccy pouches for years. Mostly just keep them simple but put a bit extra in occasionally.

@fredk that would be perfect for satay or marinated chicken or pork skewers , while marinades may not be 'medieval ', they'll taste real good 😋 HS

I enjoy my pipe and cigars, so I make things useful to me. Just finished some more. The pipe tools are redone with Moose antler and the pipe rest/tool. I enjoy working with leather doesn't matter what. Love trying new things.

A billion thanks to you! That was it. I've aligned the cams correctly and the bobbin and needle are working together! I am very grateful for the time you spent on this. On to tuning tensions!

I agree with dikmann - we have a topic her about Singer SV machines:

Thanks for posting this. It looks very nice. Also, this is the first tobacco related project that I have been able to find on leatherworker.net. With all the leather products that I have seen on etsy I would have thought that more tobacco related products would be found here.

Yes it is. The Singer 153 was out first. glenn

Do not need the screw that I have ever found. Just the plug. glenn

Yes it was. glenn

Maybe it is an SV model, these are notorious for having little, if any, information available about them?

If it's a 144 you may get a little insight here: https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/model-list/classes-100-199.html