WillyTrambone

Thank you, but I have not found anything suitable for me on their site. Though I have found such machine available where I live. http://www.highlead.co.uk/highlead-GC24608.html Has anyone used this brand? Any comments? Thank you!

Hello dear leatherworkers! I am making leather goods for several years now, so I am not a 100% newbie. I do bags, purses, wallets, belts etc. I have GC 6160 Typical sewing machine. I cannot say that I am absolutely happy with it, but it works. But as it is a flat bed sewing machine, I find it hard to make some operations on it. So I figured I need an arm or a post type sewing machine. But as I have never used one of these, I cannot be sure which one is better. Here are my requirements: - industrial sewing maching of good quality - made in Asia (I searched the forum and I really LOVE the COBRA and TechSew machines, but shipping would be too pricy. Plus all the additional parts and repair parts... It will be too long and pricy to order them from US). Unless there is a USA or European company that has shop in Russia\Ukraine. - Maximum thickness that I do is 3-4 inches (8-10mm). It should sew this thickness and sew good - needles up to #180 (I hope that needle calibers in USA and Europe are the same) - triple feed (I read that it is the best, but I will take advice on this). I will be very greatfull for your advices, links, comments. Cheers, Gleb.

Thank you guys! Now I'm browsing Tandy web-site. The thing is that it is pretty hard to choose tools when you've never held them in hands or even see by your own eyes))) There are so many different background tools and others. So I thought that someone of experienced leatherworkers can give me an idea what tools stamps "every leatherworker should have" and what are "high likely to have" and what do I "need rearly". Cos there are so many stamps that my mind is going to blow! As far as I'm going to do only "medieval" projects, I don't need all those acorn, bucket or flower stamps. I'll need background, beveler, camouflage, figure, matting, mulefoot, pear shader, seeder, veiner stamps. But there are so many sizes of them, so many variations. Especially background, beveler and camouflage stamps. If only I could feel them in hands or in work It would be so much easier to choose. But I can't, so I'm asking an advice. I understand that it'll be up to me to decide, yes. Thanks everybody for your help, Willy.

Can't wait when you'll start posting new projects on new place! I immidiately bookmark it I tried to make my own tools but I failed ((( So now I've decided to just buy some tools and focus on learning to use them. Have you ever seen survived stamped tools? Cos I was researching this and found nothing. I suppose that some of them were wooden, but I can hardly believe that there were no metal. I've got a dream to make full authentic workshop with maximum correct tools. So now I'm collecting all available info. Cheers.

Thank you men for kind words! It really means alot for me. Yes, I do all patterns by myself. It is not that hard, just takes some time. I buy it from this guy http://photofile.ru/users/velund/ he has nice quality and reasonable prices. Thank you! I can say only that I love how you make your footwear, and I find your blog very helpfull! Now I'm trying to learn how to make medieval footwear, and you help alot! Thank you! The thing is that you cannot buy leatherworking tools here in Ukraine. I have only 5 base stamps. The case with the men with shield I made without any tools, only with pen without an ink)))) it was crazy work, took me 6 hours of "painting". And I have only one backgrounder. But when I'll buy more tools I'll do much better background ) Here I wrote about my problem asking advice http://leatherworker...=0entry146777 I'm from Sevastopol (modern Ukraine).

Hello everydy! I hope this is proper section of forun for my question. If not, moderators, please move it to correct one. Let me explain my situation. I live in Ukraine, and here you can not find such great tools as you guys have. Either there is no russian language descriptions of tools and techniques. Even veg-tanned leather proper for tooling is pretty rear. I'm telling that cos you may find my questions strange or even stupid But they aren't, I'm just "virgin" in leather decoration ))))) You see, my main interest lies in medieval leatherworks. And from that times people were decorating leather by stamping and carcing. I dream to make some copies of survived examples, and in future to make my own. For that I need tools. Some time ago my friend from US sent me some tools by Tandy Factory. Those were awsome. There was sweval knife and set of 5 basic 3D tools and modeling spoon. So now I think that I need more of this tools. I want to have all needed tools to make such beautifull projects as you guys do. Here I need your help. I need an advice in tools what I should buy (and where). I need everything You know, shipping cost to Ukraine is not very cheap, so I want to buy all at once, or maximum as possible. I didn't post this question in buy and sell area cos first of all I need to understand WHAT tools I need, and only than I'll look for buying em. Here are some examples of survived medieval leather objects with carved decoration. Maybe they will help you to catch my idea. More of them you can see here http://picasaweb.goo...ambone/Sources# Thanks everybody in advance, Willy.

Hello everybody! I'm newbie on this forum, and here are so many fantastic leatherworkers and their projects, that I'm simply blinded! I learn new things every day readind forum. But only taking without giving would be unfair, I think. So I'd like to post some of my works here. I think this could be interesting for reenactors and leatherworkers. I'm doing leatherwork for about 2 years, and for now it's what I do for a living. So here are some of my works. Rest of them you can see on my web-album http://picasaweb.goo...m/WillyTrambone All of the purses are totally hand stitched. I will be glad to answer questions about this or others projects. 1. Purse from Dordrecht (by Goubitz's book) 2. Purse with mounts, 15c. 3. My version of pouch purse from Hague. 4. Purse from Novgorod, Russia, end of 13c. 5. Purse from Karos, 10c. 6. Purse from Birka 7. 16-sentury style purse by custom order Cheers, Willy.

Greetings everybody! My name is Gleb, I'm from Sevastopol (modern Ukraine). I'm involved in historical reenactment, so from here comes my interest in leatherworking. I do leatherworks for about two years. I'm focused in medieval leatherwork, but since while I'm trying to make some modern projects. this is my web album http://picasaweb.goo...m/WillyTrambone Here are some pictures of my work: All those are totally hand-stitched. And this are my first non-reenactment projects: As for now my main interest is leather carving and stamping. You can hardly find any information in russian about this, either you cannot find any tools here. So this forum is like a treasure for me. Here, on forum, I've already found lots of beautiful works and I can hardly predict how much I'm going to find in future. Thank's everybody in advance