franko2

Looks great!

Thanks Emmo. The bag is 8-10 oz. black Latigo with heavy chap leather gussets.

You will learn much once you give it a shot. I always enjoyed doing bags. My challenge to myself now is saddlebags for motorcycles. This pic is a sissybar bag I just designed, the white thread is not forgiving.

Yes, love to design.

Nice seat!!

Thank U, I see you are into motorcycle seats, wanting to try those.

Sewn with class 4 Cobra machine

Ha! Lesson learned.

Finally getting into my new Class 4, pics of practice stitches attached. Not so fearfull of the machine as i am getting aquanted with it, and loving the learning curve. The wrist band is the 1st finished practice piece and now onto fork bags and saddle bags. A little more practice for the back loch stitching but will conquer

Great work! I too am just returning to my #1 passion of leather, been away about 12yrs. Will post pics after getting a line of goods back togeather, still getting my shop set up.

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Thanks for the tip Joe, and for the encouragement Sylvia, I just tell myself "patients Grasshopper" and go have a beer.

oK,I GOT IT!! Forgot to rethread through the take up lever. Working like it should, now to start wasting alot of leather for this uphill learning curve. Thanks all for the help and being a total newbie to a machine i hope to entertain all of you machine pros with mucho more stupid questions. At least i am moving foreward because the reverse motor thing seems funny to me now and would laugh too to see that post. I think i might like this forum. Thks again.

Ha, i did figure that out though, very educating and making me more intament with it. Must have pressed the arrow on the motor lcd screen too many times. So now it is going in the right direction it only punches holes and does nothing with the thread, doing it exactly as dvd shows??? What did i get myself into!!!:,) ThankS and you sound like a good teacher