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First of all, welcome to the forum. You won't find a better place to widen your knowledge. Re; the bag, I'm a bit confused. Is this a bag you made or want to make? If you made it I don't understand the post. It's a wonderful bag and I can't fault it except for maybe some reinforcing stitches on the shoulder straps. Those single rivets might need a bit of help.

As you know Folker, I still have the Durkopp 239 flatbed and the Adler 69 Cylinder. I think the 69 has to go. It has the binder feed dog which I didn't realise when I bought it and the cost of accessories still smarts since I bought the binding kit for it. The new machine uses the 111 feet which I have lots of for the 239. On the other side, it's coming with a decent flatbed attachment so the 239 could go and I still have all the feet etc. Decisions, decisions.

The longest part for me is finding the ends and tying them together. Pulling it through takes a second, literally except for threading the needle. Re the work area, there's another sewing machine, a bell skiver, another work bench, rivet setter, hot foil machine, clicker press, two arbor presses, bench drill, two wheel polisher and a laser engraver. Now that I have the two machines working well I'm gonna have to make a tough decision about which one has to go to make room for the new one coming next month.

Another excellent job Uwe. I always wondered what that part did. Thank you.

Ya see! I knew I was behind the post on this one. Good stuff everybody. @MtlBiker This is still mostly a hobby for me and I don't have room for the cones that I have. Of course I pre-wind one or two if I know they might be needed and if truth be told it's no big deal to cut/tie together and drag through when I do get caught out but it will be nice to have some smaller cones for when I do.

First trawl through Ebay, Knitting Yarn Fiber Thread Wool Winder Hand Operated Yarn winding Unit Protable | eBay Just had another idea (will this brain never stop). You could do this with a fixed spool fishing reel although not economical if you need lots.

Firstly, I'm never gonna get through one cone of 3000ft/meters so I'm not gonna buy two but this is the way my mind is going. Just have to strip some off the main cone for bobbin winding. In the dark recesses of my mind I'm sure I remember seeing a hand winder somewhere, possibly from a hand sewing thing, maybe even for wool. I will investigate, I just thought I'd ask because it's a thing that's common to all of us and it can't be difficult to come up with a cheap hand operated doohickey that will do the job for cheap.

I'm sure we've all felt the annoyance when the bobbin runs out and we have to stop everything and cut the thread to rewind. I'm sure there must be some sort of winding system that creates a smaller cone so that we can fill a second bobbin whilst sewing? I almost feel silly asking because this is so needed I feel it must exist already and I don't know about it.

Make sure you allow for any duty payable. I looked at a site called simply duty I think. Don't know if it's just uk or international.

Although not a 441, I'm expecting a machine at the end of this month. It's had to go the long way around because of the Red Sea situation. My first new machine and I wouldn't have bought it at UK prices. No one is more skeptical than I am but I reasoned that so many machines come from China these days and most reviews are good. Maybe I was lucky but the company I dealt with couldn't have been better. They built my machine the way I wanted it and then sent me a video. Then they sent a video showing every query I threw at them. And this after we had gone through it once with a different machine that I decided to pull out of. Of course I haven't got it yet so still might end up looking like the biggest fool but if not it'll be interesting to compare my experience with Wiz's scenario. At least I've seen it fully built and even got pics of it crated up ready to go.

Neat idea.

No Mickey, I didn't make these but I intend to make some similar soon.

Be aware that many names have more than one of some letters so just one alphabet might not be that good but there are sets out there with multiples of the more common letters.

Welcome from the UK Thadrick. Can't help with holsters and such but the processes are pretty much the same.

Not my post Keith.

Welcome Tom. Looks like you've hit the ground running.

Even M60 is very strong. Sounds like your thread is not clear to the needle. Or the bobbin isn't seating properly.

If only to carry papers, why sides at all? I would consider a narrow base, maybe 1 inch? You know how much it needs to carry. Then 3 or 4 horizontal straps, ranging from maybe 3 inches at the bottom to maybe 8 inches at the top, you'll have to work out the lengths. Each strap sewn on one side and snaps on the other. Now you have something that can open like a briefcase to extract something quickly or undo the snaps to open completely. More versatile and less weight.

Just a thought, I've recently changed from Firefox to the Microsoft one, can't think of the name. Always had to login with Firefox, now I don't.

My little 3000mw lives on a shelf over the Bell skiver at the moment.

You have to be a bit thicker skinned these days. If not you'll get all bitter and twisted. There's one on here. I spent along time on his problem, sorted out links etc, even put it in a pm so it was private. Not a word came back. No point stressing over it, you just log it. Now you know what that person is like and pray he really needs help in the future.

A couple of large cutting mats.

LOL. I think you might be my bruvver from another muvver. I'm the same. I read these posts and I almost talk myself into NEEDING one. I have to pull myself up and remind myself that I've not long talked myself into NEEDING a £1500 clicker press to do that job and don't talk to me about the lack of space.

Had it awhile now but never used it much. What's the best wheels and compounds for polishing leather and maybe burnishing edges. Thanks peeps.

My brain is too logical for all this stuff. Now I know there are times when being pedantic does matter but I make bags and I don't think any of the industrial threads is gonna break in the normal use of a bag. So my first consideration when thinking about thread is the colour and how it contrasts or not with the rest of the bag. I have quite a few cones of thread and most of em have no label. So once I've decided on the colour I'll take a needle of a size that I think will work, I'll put some thread through it and hold the thread at 45 degrees. If the needle rushes down I'll go down a size. If it doesn't want to go at all or sluggishly I'll go up a size.