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Thank you Razz. The next pen case will benefit from this learning experience. My brother just picked up a pressure pot. He will be able to make is own resin infused blanks.

The main website with all the pens made: http://www.greatsmokymountainpens.com/home.html The website to buy the pens: http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/GSMpens A Facebook presence: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Great-Smoky-Mountain-Pens/568684289841518

My brother is making pens and sent a bolt action pen to me. So of course I had to make a pen case for it. It has a veg tanned 3oz as the primary and a 1oz black pig skin for the secondary. It is hand sewn but a Consew 255RB-3 leather sewing machine would have made the stitching a lot better. For a first design I am pretty happy with the outcome. See video on youtube at

Thanks for the replies . . . 255RB-1.

I looked for the 33RB-2 and found a picture here http://industrialsew...Stitch Machines Looks just like the picture I took. Here is a picture of the walking foot of the machine I saw.

Thanks Bob. He showed that it did have the large bobbin. It was an impromptu conversation and he offered it at $900.

I was in an upholstery shop this afternoon just to buy some thread. During our conversation the owner said he had a machine for sale (see pic). Can anyone identify the model? Thanks.

Hello everyone, I lived in the Mojave desert for about 24 years and have recently moved to Ventura county in California. I have been working with leather on and off for about 20 years. It started with a purchase of a cheap motorcycle jacket. I never would have bought it at full price. Hah, I said to myself . . . it had fringes on the arms an across the back!!! I grew to like all that business flying around as I rode. The belt, however, was useless. This is where my leather story starts. Long story short, after tooling up with about $300 in Tandy tools and materials, building a stitching pony and putting in many hours of practice and research I created a back supporting belt with a tooled eagle on it. I still have this belt after 20 years and it is still beautiful. Since then I have made several variations of motorcycle tool bags (I like to call them burrito bags), picture frames and boxes. I really enjoyed the close up hands on tooling, painting and hand stitching. I am beginning another level of leather craft and LeatherWorker.net has become an integral part. I want to make machine sewn items such as wallets and cases. I have been looking for a sewing machine and my searches always result in links to LeatherWorker.net. This group is a major part of the world leather community. This is awesome and I have learned a lot about walking foot machines from the members here. I have enough info now to actually go into a store and look around at some machines. I am excited about purchasing a machine and laying down some stiches. Zoomer