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

Thank you very much for the reply Wiz. Well i did what you said and with only turning the hand wheel counterclockwise it works fine but as soon as i hit the motor throttle it goes the opposite way, or in reverse. Really stumped. Still waiting on Steve to call btw.

Never had a machine before, just hand stitched so i decided to try a machine. I do mostly biker bags, belts, tank panels etc. Got the machine Fri night and set it up, very intimidating to a newbie, so i spent the weekend getting aquainted with it, not touching it much except to polish it a little. Today i figured i'd give it a try, only after talking to Steve first. The thread was already threaded, no spool of thread attached though as there was enough from the factory test to give it a try as per Steve, i practiced some stitches and even practiced back stitching some to lock it in. Really felt good about it. So i dethreaded what was left in the machine, left the bobbin thread alone as there was plenty there, and i threaded the top thread as per dvd instructions and looks good so as i was watching the dvd to sew it only sewed in reverse and punched holes in the leather, the handle was not in reverse. HELP!!!!!!!!. Waiting on a call from Steve now.(feeling sorry for him with me as a newbie for a customer)

Great stuff! I am back in the biz too and planing on an online store, will be checking out Etsy

Hi from Pa. I had a small biker co. called Black Leather Ltd. in Phx. Az. a while ago, made bags, wristbands, lever covers, earings etc. and all stitching was by hand. Did pretty good for a while, even had some of my work in Biker Mag. in 95 on a featured custom bike. I am back in biz again but in central Pa. and just received my new Class 4 sewing machine, which i know ZERO about sewing machines and picking up all kind of new tips here. Steve of Leather Machine co. even gave me his cell phone # for help which i will be using today since i dont know where to start, like what to do with the thread already on the machine etc., i could see now that a huge learning curve is coming. Well anyway i am glad to be a new member of this forum and look foreward to meeting all of you.