What a great looking stitching horse! I am in the "finding out how i want to do it" phase of building one of these, and I have a question - how does this locking/clamping mechanism work???
I am generally pretty good at working out machinery, but something about this has me stumped. I have looked at the photos, back and forth, over and over, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how pulling the bottom edge of the jaw you want to clamp in the direction you want the top to go is going to close it! At least that is what appears to me to be happening when you press the foot bar - the belt over the roller pulls that harness mechanism to the right, which should OPEN the jaw the way it is hinged, right?
Please help me understand this - I know I am missing something, but I will have to ask, I cannot seem to picture this in my head.
Thanks in advance for any help with this.
