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Thanks, Yes I agree with you. I love the way the HO tools better than the WC but I don't do much so I buy just what I need for any project. Nice to be able to order by the foot. I ordered double what I needed for a wallet and these two panels and the piece I received wouldn't dye right. I tooled two of those wallet covers to match these (8 hours each) and the dye just looked like hammered crap. I still have that piece of HO but it doesn't dye good. I spray all my dye so I thought the first one was something I did wrong but the second one came exactly the same. I've never had a problem with HO where I get it but the last couple of pieces just weren't usable.

just checked the parts list - it should be screw 91-100 331-15

Its a recording from about 1936 I knew this was false news cos we don't drive at km per hour! We do mph If corn oil is made from corn, and olive oil is made from olives, what's baby oil made from? If you boil a funny bone it becomes a laughing stock.

IIRC the 491 is using a leaf spring for the foot pressure (similar to Singer 111w - kind of) so there should be a screw on top of the machine at about in the middle of the top arm.

How do I do that

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together. Well done.

Spent a day repairing my hand-held bandsaw after one of the brushes fell apart, at the same time the top wheel wouldn't turn. Then back to the bending jig. Added a couple of bars across the bottom so it can be clamped to a bench, my reloading bench has three sets of holes for mounting various presses, these are reinforced underneath with steel so I made the bars so it can be bolted down using two of the holes. This works well as I can really lean into the handle and I don't have to hold the press down. Tomorrow I'll go over it with an angle grinder to tidy it up and then it's a matter of waiting for the weather to warm up (could be a while!) so I can paint it. I thought of powdercoating it but my little oven is too small for it. The bending tools have been heated and dunked in oil to give them some protection (also makes them look purty ). It's not perfect, if I'm not careful sometimes the bend can be slightly skewed but that's a minor point. I might need additional different bending tools but they're easy enough to make. All things considered I think I'll call it a success, and all it cost was some power and welding gas. Oh, and out of curiosity I tried one of the shapes that I'd bent under the Vevor press that I bought, using a bit of scrap hard leather, and blow me down it cut it - and it's not even sharpened!

Thank you so much I am new I'm really not sure what I'm doing but I really appreciate you

Never mind JLS, Just one point of view Be aware that no matter how many people are there only 0.1% will stop with you. Have cheap things with your brand on it to sell cheaply or give away and better stuff, like motorcycle saddle bags, on the back rack to show off. Attract the tiny trainee grups to your stall and their parents will come too I'm going to start including a new range; small toy animals. I have the patterns, have had them for years. They use up about a 4 in sq of 1mm veg tan. You put string through holes and when you pull the string it pulls the animal into shape Like these; I think I'll maybe just do the elephant (and leave off that hanging fitting) I'll have a few of these, bagged up with a piece of string, to give away to trainee grups Its still in the planning stages

So what's ur point ? That selling leather crafted stuff is a waste of my time? If so please tell me and save me the time and hassle and ile move on to the next idea I have . Im good at some other things too that I wanna make and sell.

Thanks again you’ve been very kind and helpful. You and I have the same model.

If you fellows would quote each other, or tag each other, that should generate email notifications that would help keep you up to date (depending on how you have notifications set). You tag a member by typing the @ symbol followed by the member's username and picking it out of the popup box. Like this: @Judo See, you are tagged.

Hey Tobby, Sorry for the late reply I don't login often. As for the Landis 5 in 1 I wanted to get $700 CAD. Converted to USD it would be like $510. If that's fine with you I'd go and check with my local UPS store how much shipping is going to be.

@Guell, I moved this to the Leather Sewing Machine sub forum. It should get proper attention here.

Hello everyone I am new to the site but know of it I have gathered much information here. I was wondering if anyone could help me with my singer 153 w-102 I'm going to add a little video to show my question and I'm wondering if this part is supposed to move like this. Or if everyone knows how I can make it tighter what I need to do? VID_20250830_095105035.mp4

Photos please...I am not familiar with this saddle that you mentioned, but may help with photos.

Great looking belt, and fabulous photographic skills!! Taking a decent picture generally is hard for me, and if it is a picture of a belt.. I am lost from the start. Brgds Jonas

Really? NOBODY thot this was funny? Er wuzya just commentin' cuz if'n yer wife seen ya ....

YEah, having tried both extensively -- I prefer to tool the HO. W/C does tool up nicely, but i rather like the firm HO after its done STILL, I like this work and as a rule I've always liked your work 👍 I'll say it out loud ... I ordered from ALD- ONCE. And will not do it again. Robert (mecopocketholsters) and I decided to try them a few years back. So we ordered three different TYPES of leather cuts from them, to try them out. Qute bad. I considered using it for lining other projects, but in the end, I threw it out. Robert - in TX - said the same thing. This would be THAT Robert, who made the best looking holster I ever dun seen, right down to this day ...

You need DA part #0667105100 which is the stud for synchronizer. Remove plastic plug and tap the stud in place. This is what the synchronizer mounts on. glenn

I'm impressed with how well the bridle leather submitted to your tooling. Very nice work. Mark of a pro is being able to fix things that aren't working out as originally planned.

Yup. There ya go.

Maybe shoot a video fer us. Cowboy Bob still round these parts? Bob prolly tell you in a minute wut the prollem is If I wuz gonna guess without seeing it (and I aint gonna) I might say theyz sumthin' putting drag on yer BOBBIN side ... But again - tell Bob is yer best bet. Bob is a GROWN MAN, capable of answering a simple question without trying to sell you something you don't need. Oh, and he's out yer way!

OH, OH, OH... I DID see one gun show about an hour from here.... we took a BIG bowl of individually wrapped candy for anybody who wants to help theyseff to it. No worries. Brightly colored tables and candy.... might as well have been a flashing red light But nothing much selling. COuple fellas ordered holsters for later shipment, which was fine and good. But the ONLY thing of QUALITY I saw there, barring us, was a older fella making gun slings. Making GOOD slings. NICE slings. Put yer name on em and finish em right there - pay, come back in half an hour and gityer stuff. Started - if I remeber right - around $90. After 2 days he wuz downta like half that, and STILL no orders. Guy spent most of the time over there eating candy and talking with me and my son ...

I'm the odd man out here. Again. WHile it's clear that Daytona loves bike stuff (and also spring break crap and racing stuff) I can tell you what i"ve seen over the years. If you make "quick, cheap, token" items for quick sale, that's what you'll be remembered for. IF you want to get known for quality, lasting, CRAFTED goods, then I suggest that you start making and offering that right from teh start. 👍 When we did "shows", we always had those little "key fob" things with a tandy stamp on there and a key ring. We didn't sell them - we GAVE THEM to little kids. Cost us less than $1 and a minute er two each. REASON being it made the kids happy to get SOMETHING, and thus they weren't putting their hot dog soaked hands on a 3-digit handbag or a $100+ holster .. no mustard on the goods SOME of the girls (mostly) would hear there wuz some dummy over that was givin free stuff for the kids and show up, with no intention of buying anything. Which is fine - no harm done (plus, we LIKE kids as a rule). I can't even tell you for a fact that we ever sold anything BECAUSE of these little things - prolly not. But it did make room for those who wanted to see the real stuff. At the shows, we had some stuff you could touch, feel, smell... and ALSO some photos of other stuff you could order. BUT WE QUIT doing 'shows" ... SO MANY people love to go to these things for "something to do"... might as well have been a walk in the park with a hot dog vendor (and sometimes the food guy was the ONLY one making any money). Last straw for me was when i went to a supposed so-called "gun show" and had a guy telling me all about the wonderful holster he bought from a guy who "designs them hissself""... and then showed me a picture of MY holster he bought from this somebody I showed him the DESIGN, but he just wasn't having it - ya kaint fix stupid. This guy wasn't there to buy anything either... just wanted to "talk guns" with some other people not there to buy anything....