Mark842

Hi, I'm not sure any of the products I know of made for leather will seal and protect from bacteria. I would just keep the meat in plastic bag inside the leather bag. Is this not possible for this? With Google translate... Hola, no estoy seguro de que ninguno de los productos que conozco hechos para cuero selle y proteja de las bacterias. Solo mantendría la carne en una bolsa de plástico dentro de la bolsa de cuero. ¿Esto no es posible para esto?

No Machine will do it all. If I had to purchase one to start with I would purchase a Juki 441 clone. Either the Cowboy or the Cobra depending on which dealer is closer as to save on shipping. Both Cowboy and Cobra have exceptional customer service. This style machine is a work horse and will sew everything but the thin stuff.

Have them ship it in pieces. The top unbolts and can be shipped separate. The two sides can ship together and then all the other smaller pieces

I wouldn't mind picking up one of those bar tackers real cheap. Got a few products that would be a lot easier to manufacture with them. I already have a good old double needle Singer that covers my double needle needs...but like you said...if the price is right...

Those of us that are bidding can work together on some of them as there are many of the same item. I only see one machine so far that I must try and win that I'll go big on....The rest I'm looking at only if I can get a smoking good deal. I'm thinking that with the amount of machines and weight involved..pretty much restricts to those that can pick it up themselves so hopefully there will be a lot of machines going in the $50 range.

Sweet 8 hour drive for me. I already have about 40 items on my watch list....I'm drooling

Unfortunately in this leather I only use black brown and tan. Get that press going! If you have single phase 220V like you would run for your clothes dryer, get a Rotary Phase converter. Simple to install and use and quiet and reliable. I purchased one from American Rotary years ago and its been trouble free. It probably runs 2-6 hours a day 6 days a week. I think I paid about $500 for it new, probably more now as it was 10-12 years ago.

It will be this stuff....this is Fred, Fred is growing and taking over the area in between my clicker presses. Mostly belly areas or areas that I didn't like the grain because of small imperfections. I have about ten more glad bags full in the basement. Keep saying I'm keeping it to use it for small items but its getting out of control.

I hear ya. I use a maid service for the rest of my house but I don't dare let her in my work areas. Tried it one time for a week and I couldn't find a damn thing. Shop looks like someone airdropped a leather supply business on it where the actual work gets done but I know exactly where everything is. The areas I keep my hides in and supplies is actually fairly organized

Trust me..that is not messy. I might post some pic's this weekend if I can finally get a day to clean up 6-7 months worth of long production days. I have a pile of scrap leather cutoffs in the corner that has become so large I named it Fred. Fred is about 4 foot tall and 4 foot diameter....On a side note...in the coming months I will be selling a ton of black and brown oil tan in the 6 ounce range.

You ever get out that way again yell at me and I'll come get you for a few beers. I'm about a 30 minute drive from Evanston

I jump in also Cobra 4 (x2) My main work horses. I have one set up for sewing heavy latigo items about 1/2" thick. The other I use for sewing foam and Kydex to leather..lighter duty stuff. Consew 229R-1 Post bed...bag duty Consew 206rb-1 Medium duty. Most of what I do with this is max 8-10 ounce oil tanned leather Singer 112W116 double needle. Decorative double stitch lines on belts, bag lids, etc Singer 29K31 Patcher goes on location to rallies/shows for sewing on patches Adler 30-7 Patcher, same as above and sewing lengthwise across the bottom of tool roll bags Juki DLN 5410 non leather medium fabric work that requires higher speed Junker & Ruh sd28 bought it to sit on a shelf and look cool but it actually works and I've stitched some soles with it Landis One newest addition. Just picked it up in working order. Had been sitting collecting dust for 50 years. Restoration coming this winter. Another one that I purchased for the cool factor but after cleaning it up and lubing it up, I ran a line of stitching down some 10 ounce latigo using the old twine that it was still threaded with. I produces an incredibly nice tight stitch. I will be adapting it to sew with threads in the 207 to 346 range

That is a sweet deal. Your gonna love that machine. Very versatile work horse! Hiding at 7700 foot above sea level in Utah...

Deny, deny deny! What's NeatLac? If it makes anyone feel better it is not for sale because half has been sold to a friend locally. It's getting old so it is kind of hit and miss. I've opened up a few cans that weren't good anymore. I bought out a saddlery shop in Vernal Utah about 5 years ago and the guy had a pallet of cases of the stuff.

I disagree. If you look on the shelf two bottles to the right from the neatlac you will see a bottle of Wyosheen. I love Wyosheen and it works great but it is a completely different product than Neatlac as far as end result of finish.

Wanna bet! I still have people that randomly show up because a customer that purchased from us got our address and phone number. My neighbors love coming home to see a bunch of Harleys parked out front. I constantly have the HOA up my butt about it. I guess it depends on your market and your word of mouth sales and your goals. I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to slow down and not really looking for more business, at least not in the summer. From Feb to October its pretty much an insane asylum here with 12-14 hour days 5 days a week with the occasional Saturday thrown in. People tell me I should hire more but I'm a picky bastard and I've only found one person in the past 25 years that I consider a good craftsman and worker. The business will be his when I retire. I will say this...the OP's website looks a hell of a lot better than mine. Much more professional. That being said my website does me very well and I'm just using a home built Wix

I have 94 tins of Neat Lac rat holed...and no, none is for sale.

Yep. I for one have changed to this. We were fielding so many phone calls that were not turning into orders that we decided to see what happened if we did not supply a phone number until it was either requested via email or after the customer purchased from us via invoice. That was in February of last year. Our website is about 5 years old and has seem an average of about 5% growth each year in sales. Removing the address and phone number made no difference for us. I think what it comes down to is times are changing and people are more comfortable with online purchases. Removing my phone number from our website probably freed up 2-3 hours a day that are better served for production. Don't get me wrong, I love talking to my customers but when I'm running a 4 month back log on custom orders I'd rather be pounding leather than talking to Bob about his favorite motorcycle ride for a half hour.

Very cool idea. Has me thinking maybe I'll make one out of wood. Just wondering if I'll wind up having a mess from catching the blade on the wood when inserting it.

Not really intentional. I've just developed the habit over the years of throwing on a set of rubber surgical gloves, pouring some dye in a shallow bowl and applying the dye by hand. By product is messy dye bottles as I put them away with my gloves on.

That's the best part. It was free...

Looking good. I have similar wall cabinets that I picked up at auction. They are Gladiator brand which I think either Home Depot or Lowes sells. I went to an auction for a wood shop that went out of business and picked up 6 of them for $25. I just had to pull them off the walls myself. They were pretty scratched up looking so i bought a couple cans of black and red Plasti-dip and bam! They look like new. The only problem I have is we are always growing and always out of room. My entire shop, for lack of a better way to put it is a complete and total shit house currently. Going to have to get a much bigger place soon. Currently using about 1700sqft in my house so my over head is zero which is nice but the lack of work space is getting ridiculous. Not to mention our local Tandy store just moved a few blocks into a different building. They did not have room in the new place for the 8' x 4' craft table. It's an awesome 2 lower shelf metal table with the top shelf being 1" high density MDF completely covered with poundo board. It's currently in the garage in pieces because I just don't have room for it

I'll second that and add that I've had major issues sewing Chahin leathers also.

Everything your asking is available with a simple google search on each subject, with the exception of having Horween tell you their tanning process...good luck with that one. After that call up Coca Cola and KFC and get their recipes while your at it....

Is this problem consistent with different leathers? I notice you said on scrap from the same leather as the project. I chased this problem for months using a specific Latigo. I adjusted everything thing six ways to Sunday and was going nuts. On someones advise I tried a piece of latigo from a different tannery. Problem went away never to happen again. It was the leather not the machine.