Clintonville Leather

My machine was acting up on some Harness leather. Everything was dialed in tension wise and it just started stitching short and screwed up a belt. Was wondering if anyone had ever had that problem? Thank you in advance.

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I will give it a shot the shank is slightly longer but it seems it would peen over just the same.

Does anyone know if the CS Osborne 5/8" line 24 snaps work with the Tandy hand press dies?

Do you just want enough to make one? I have some 9mm.

My local restaurant supply store has disposable gloves for $4.50 for 100.

We went through the Black Hills, saw Mount Rushmore and Devil's tower nice land out there. I really liked South Dakota but found that people drove 80 miles to their neighborhood bar! A big change from being in a "big" city like Columbus, OH. Have a good weekend.

That sounds correct JLS I believe if the feed dog plate hole was tighter it would look better. I'll try and experiment with it. I am imagining this experiment will result in busted needles. Or maybe I should just try and raise the feed dog a little and grind it down more since I lowered it a hair to eliminate those marks. What part of Iowa are you in? My buddy and I rode our bicycles to the West coast and Southern Iowa was a bitch with all those rolling hills. Super nice people though. Cheers! A gouge line certainly helped Ole South but it definitely has nothing to do with tension I got that adjusted per the manual.

Hello, the tension is set properly. The needle isn't producing a clean exit hole, maybe such a tool does not exist. Imagine if you were saddle stitching and you only put your awl through a little bit or your irons didn't penetrate fully. That is what it looks like. The holes on the bottom are smaller than the holes up top. I bet that was why Bob said it looked better with 138 on the bottom.

I am new to using a sewing machine. The needle I am using is an Organ DPX16DIA 160/23. I am using #207 thread top and bottom. The needle works just fine but on veg tan the back side doesn't look so nice. Granted, I took a long time to learn to get a clean saddle stitch. The top side holes look precise but on the bottom it looks like the needle exploded through the leather. Am I being picky, is there a nicer needle to use or is this par for the course?