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I once saw a demonstration of this machine sewing through Plywood: Dürkopp Adler 969. Really impressive!

Awesome work again!! Thanks for sharing

Few more ideas on this topic:

I've also made a sketch for a burnisher a while ago, with different type of grooves, bought the wood but never completed this project so I don't know how good it works :

Anything matters with thin leathers: most important - Is the knife sharp enough? Is the presser foot polished and has good geometry? Adjusting the tension for the driving wheel might help: softer tension for softer leathers. I don't think is necessary to adjust the pressure-foot height for each side (unless you don't mind small variations in thickness for each skived side).

I am not sure if I understood correctly: you skive one side of the square (for example from 2 mm to 1.6 mm final thickness) and flip over the leather (flesh side up) and want to skive the back of the same square-side (for example from 1.6 to 1.2 mm)? parallel skive or angled (beveled)?

Very well done with the spacing to allow removing the bobbins! Maybe can add a magnetic plate underneath the box to hold them in place when you accidentally flip over the case? One more design idea (Constabulary's idea) with a magnetic tool holder on the bottom:

Thank you very much Brian for posting the tutorial and for the value you add to this forum!!

A video showing how the Italian leather boxes are made:

I think Pfaff 335-17 is a binding machine subclass (so the machine was originally a binding machine). Quote from the instruction book for the 335 old casting: 'The operational instructions given in this booklet pertain not only to the ordinary Pfaff 335-17 binding machine, but also to all other subclass varieties. The individual subclasses are fitted to suit different operational requirements. The various subclass organizations differ only in the type of rigid or swing-away binder or tape guide mounted on the feed-synchronized attachment bracket. An exception are the Pfaff 335-9, -09, and -09-33 which are specially designed for portfolio work and have a rigid tape guide mounted on the cylinder arm. The Pfaff 335-332 X 251 occupies a special position in that it is fitted with upper feed acceleration control rather than ordinary unison feed '

Congratulations! Those are great machines, I also have a Pfaff 335 old casting, mine is 17B H2L. I find useful the binding attachments, flat bed attachment, drop down guide.

Very nice! How do you trace the sewing pattern? How do you prevent presser foot marks on the leather when sewing? Thanks!

I am also curious (those LOXX seem very useful for handbags) so I just called the contact person Erika (+49 2324 - 9049 - 130) she is speaking English and is very helpful. She said they have requests for full brass LOXX: if enough people are interested in this they are willing to start producing them to be on the market in a few months. I understood they already made some full brass pieces, but are not yet included in the catalog. You can try calling her.

That's the page where they list the distributors: https://www.loxx-products.com/live/dealer-distributors/distributors.aspx (one of them is https://www.decocuir.com in France) and the contact page: https://www.loxx-products.com/live/contact-person/contact-person.aspx First time I've seen those LOXX fasteners was on a Textile fair in Dortmund Germany a couple of years ago.