SteelcityK9Cop

Welcome to the forum! Hope Yinz enjoy yer stayn'at!

Cheap cabinet... peg board on the back... various pegs inside.... fan mounted on the side.... hole next to fan... drying cabinet. If you want to get real wild, you can wire a heat lamp to the top.

Free shipping.... you just picked up a new customer.

My wife found this free E-Book last night on Amazon... "The Sewing Machine Master Guide" It's well over 300 pages with a bajillion pictures and diagrams. It has a huge sections on lock & chain stitch machines and how they work... adjusting thread tension.. you name it. I just thumbed through it on my e-reader and it's a must have. Oh...did I mention it's free?? It's ALMOST like having access to Wiz 24/7. http://www.amazon.com/The-Sewing-Machine-Master-Guide-ebook/dp/B00FEX075Q/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dp_sPRTsb0AJ5HRZ_tt

Where there is a will, there is a way! Get in touch with your local high school.. I'm sure they would let you have a classroom once a month for a meeting. Getting the word out will be the tough part... and start up will be slow going. But you have great resources here on the forum. There are "guildies" from all over the US here who can offer great ideas!

You have a Tandy store right down the street.... that should be your first stop. If its like the one here, there will be classes every Saturday. They can also tell you if there is a Leather Guild working out of their store as well. Tandy Leather #139 - DETROIT-139 Manager: Chris Bohinsky Detroit139@tandyleather.com 32524 Warren Rd Westland, MI 48185 USA Phone: 734-422-9102 Fax: 734-422-9105 Toll Free: 866-422-9102 Store Hours: Monday-Friday: 9am - 6pm Saturday: 9am - 4pm Sunday: Closed

Botach Tactical has the best pricing at $39.00 a gun... no tax and free shipping but they are always drop shipping from Blue Guns with a back order. Otherwise I direct from Blue Guns at the full $48 retail price if in a pinch.

Does anyone have any experience with the Weaver dyes? The price is right at about $23 a gallon but I have not run into anyone who had used them to give an honest comparison to the Fiebings Pro Oil Dyes.

Nice find... $40 Blueguns are a nice price... plus lots of other goodies.

Absolutnie piekne dzielo! Witamy na forum!

Very nice holster! PLEASE try to convince him that the holster you made him is much safer than the crap that they are pitching with the rotating hoods and push buttons now. The gimmicks being thrown at young officers to sell them holsters makes me sick.

Springfield will sell you a 5 or 10 pound box of "scraps" for a real nice price.. they come in various weights and sizes. Great to practice cutting, sewing burnishing, tooling,,,, you name it.

oclack... This video is like the 441 owners bible... It was made by Al Bane who I believe is a forum member.

Dirtclod and Wiz... I guess that's the big sewing machine noob question... How often do you need to do the "red dot" oiling vs. the "full oil" where you take all of the plating off of the machine and oil all of the internal pivot points?

Since we are talking oil.... When you oil the red dot spots... are you just putting a drop in the hole or are you using the oil container's long tube to get into the hole to where you touch a shaft to put the drop there? Also, how often are we doing the "full oil" vs. the red dot oil?

If that does not work, try "Fat Elephant" They use this stuff to recondition car-leather on museum pieces. It's expensive but i have seen miracles performed with this stuff. http://www.swissvax.us/product/SE1042592.html

Thanks for all the assistance everyone!!! I lowered both tension knobs 1/4 turn and the stitches do not seem to be sinking in as far.... I attached two photos below from some practice scrap i attacked tonight. I over oiled yesterday and some snuck onto my presser foot and onto my scrap apparently. As for the tight thread.... the tension adjustment helped a good bit... but the biggest help was waiting for the needle to travel about 1/4" back down from the upright position. I also noticed something odd... I get higher presser foot lift from the foot pedal than I do with the presser foot lever. I am going to have to see if using the lever was leaving too much tension on the thread. TOP THREAD: BOBBIN THREAD:

Thanks for all the responses! I have not touched any of the tension knobs since I brought it home from Bob's shop..and he had it set up for the same thread and needle...EXCEPT.. bob was running white/white on it and I'm now running black/white. The bobnin is still 3/4 full so I am running it this way until its empty. I am using at times the lift pedal and the lift lever and have the same issue. I also notice that black thread is crazy...I caught it twice knotting under the thread holder arm. It is not however getting stuck around any if the tension shafts. I will take a picture of my scrap leather tomorrow.. the leather is dry and squeaky when you sew which shouldn't matter I wouldn't think but the top stitches do seem to be sinking into the leather a bit further than they should. I'm guessing this could be a combination of using a thinner leather and perhaps too much tension on the top thread. When it does not want to pull out I am pulling the project out by itself with the presser feet in the up position. I can pull the bobbin thread all day but only about three inches of top thread before it really locks up hard.

I have a new CB4500 that I am learning with. I have it set up with a #25 needle and 277/277 thread. I have the machine threaded exactly as Bob instructs in his video. When I get done sewing my scrap leather I am returning the take up bar to the upright position and raising the presser foot fully to reduce the tension on the thread so I can remove the "project" easier. The bobbin thread is nice and loose but the upper thread is extremely tight to the degree that I can't pull the project loose to cut the thread. All of the tension seems to be coming from the butterfly tensioner (the one you wind 1.5 times). Any ideas what's going on?

That looks like a "Proedgeburnisher"... you could get hold of them at Richard Loy 801-580-7127 email: proedgeburnishers@gmail.com

Code words for mass produced goods trying to look a little less mass produced.

Back at yunz from Da'Burgh!

Should be a sticky.

Grab a gallon of distilled water from the grocery store to see if it's your water. If you have well water you may have high iron content.

Greetings from Da'Burgh!