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    Back stiching on any machine is always gonna be ugly . You can always back stitch with your machine using the hand wheel & your foot lift moving the piece backwards by hand . But of course , the best is to bite the bullet and finish by hand . At least your clients will have a strong product . But that's only my opinion

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    Hi Walter ,

    I thought you would like the quarter moon knife I bought it 35 years ago from a shop in Bruxelles .I've been making my own knives for the past 20 years from high speed steel saw blades & they are the best but they are made to do bags & wallets .

    Fredrich Herder (solingen) also still make some beautiful knives . The Don Carlos collection .

    Thanks for the link from the bone tools , but I make my own tools in bone or animal horns . I maybe have 20 or so ! Actually the tool you liked with bone I made myself many years ago .

    I'll send some more pics later today.

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    Hello Ralph.

    I am unfortunately no French, but would surely find someone who can translate.

    English unfortunately too little, but the problem would dissipate safely. I would sure find which helps us and speaks perfect English.

    St. Gallen is approximately 280 kilometres from Geneva.

    If you are willing to look past but surely and we stir us even through the tools, leather-splitting machines, etc.

    End of August would be no problem.

    Well the tools by Blanchard, who were very nice.

    But about 8 years ago, I was once in the Poursin, there, I've seen many old boards with horse harness fittings of various world exhibitions.

    Gold plate coated, and beautifully engraved stuff.

    Unfortunately the Camera in Paris was stolen from me, about 200 photos of the old fittings are no longer available.

    These were part of the Time from Napoleon the third.

    http://www.poursin-P...-Affiche-fr.php

    http://www.poursin-Paris.fr/

    What you can see of it still on the website is the same issue as with the tool by Blanchard.

    Louis Vuitton but still gets its fittings of Poursin.

    Steel for tools.

    I have tested my good Half Moon once, the good have 64 Rockwell hardness.

    These are to grind the very good and they are almost always made ​​from geschmideten plates, ie forged under the big machine hammer.

    Unfortunately, this long no longer made​​.

    If you're with me, I'll show you time how do I loop it.

    I make them by hand or by machine, but have a special grinding paste from England.

    http://www.Lea.co.UK...sive/comps3.htm

    Lea Compounds is a fatless grinding paste themselves to the work of grinding very well is ideal.

    She so much material takes away that sparks spray, but it is a paste that to a normal slice of sewn fabric.

    The half moons get not an ever darker angle, they remain thin and easy to grind.

    As a second step I take a polishing paste and finally a strop as at the razor.

    I think the good hard Arkansas unfortunately little more I mean the grey to anthracite dark that seem almost transparent.

    I use Lea compund for croppers, etc.

    So, now, but enough for today.

    Walter

    "Hello Walter , We have a lot to talk about ! They have been making saw blades from "tungsten carbide " and tools for lathes from the same material & they come sharpend ! You can buy knife blades sharpened so why not leather tools ????

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    Thank you Walter,

    I keep an sharp eye on this thread.

    Good luck

    Tor

    Tor

    Hello Walter & Tor & all you other tool freaks !

    I was in Paris about 30 years ago to visit the shop of Blanchard & I saw those tools made for the Paris exhibition in a glass case . I couldn't sleep for weeks after seeing those tools . All the knife blades were polished like mirrors and the metal ferrules were engraved silver . Alas the tools made now by Blanchard are nothing like the the ones of earlier times .

    I have a good collection myself of all those old round knives with ebony handles & some you don't have I'll try to get the courage to post some pics . Walter , I see you are not too far from Geneva . I have to install some beds I covered with leather in a hotel there & wondered if I could pass by your place in St . Gallen to say hello & touch some of your tools ! It would be at the end of August ? I wouldn't stay long to bother you . What do you think ? I also speake pretty good French as I suppose you do ?

    The best edge tools I ever had I made myself from stubbs steel 7% carbon and hardened in light oil . You just can't buy edge tools that cut from the factory . WHY ? ? ? I think I've spent more time sharpening edge tools than actually doing the edges .

    Hope to hear from you about the visit .

    Best Regards ,

    Leather Guru

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    Hello Trox

    One of the first machines i ever had was a 345 . I don't remember the exact model but the food dog did have a cycle where it lifted up & came back , down etc. When i bought it ,the colour was black & it came as a binder with a special needle plate & that food dog & binding attachment , that i sent to you . Adler 69s & pfaff 335s do not have a food dog that lifts & the way to adjust them is to have those dogs a tiny bit lower than the needle plate . There is no way to adjust the height other than putting a shim under the needle plate or grind off either the needle plate or food dog . My 269 - 373 has an adjustment to raise or lower the food dog . Other than that the only thing i didn't like was the small cannette . After all it's just a machine that makes spirals . Hope this helps ? ?By the way Trox . Little Roxy is doing fine & growing liker a weed . I had to make him another collar already . & now it's time to feed dog !

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    Hello you guys & hippy new year ! The problem I see with fixed blade splitting machines is how or who is gonna sharpen the blade in a correct way ? ? ? If the blades were hollow ground you would have a better chance to sharpen them . Those machines date from a period in history when there were pro knife sharpeners . I got a blanchard fixed blade splitting machine & I think I spent more time sharpening the blade than splitting ! I actually have 2 splitting machines in my work place & they don't ever give the same result from one kind of leather to another Find right away some one who can sharpen your blades & maybe order a reserve blade & always keep one in reserve

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    Hi Trox & Ron , I got 335s &69s here in my atelier & I also have a 269-373 where the feed dog lifts up . Almost every thing I could do on the smaller arm machines I could do just as well on the 269 . The 269 has the big cannettes & can handle more heavy work as well as medium & light . I've seen some nice clones of these machines & they are good . If I could, I'd trade for another 269

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