walter roth

Hi Macca, Bruce, Simonuntelder....................... Yes of course, the round handles I then bought by Blanchard, who are still exactly like this one. The other sword-Awls handles it no longer gets, and also Dixon from England sold for sword-Awls its round handles. Well, all of which have no idea how to sew properly ....)) -: Round Awls can be good buy from Blanchard. The beech wood handles of Dixon are also good, but only for round-Awls. Only the Awls are unfortunately poor quality today. The rounds are often polished and the sword-awls made only for the patent folders, so the peaks are cut back and only half length. "Patent awls terms" use no saddle here, that's what ignorant, are frowned upon by professional people. My stocks of Awls iron I have for many years. Also in the USA they make many beautiful handles, but those for Awls can be found anywhere. It is probably so that is closer to real rare find, the other techniques of leatherworking are easier to learn and you put more value on as decoration on beautiful sew. Greeting Walter

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Hi leather Craftsman... Now I come once to a theme, which is very, .......very important for the Sattler. There are the sewing Awls, the Awls-handles and the iron Awls. Called the round Ahlen and the "cutting Awls", or also "sword Awls". I have some of my old boxes shown here, ...wohl decades-old. Where are still Awls-iron of good old quality. You can see it because it still blue authorised the Awls-iron during the curing. -- They are already so well polished one they hardly must polishing it. There I have not found just the boxes the sword Ahlen. but here they must in contrast to the circular Ahlen are still cut and polished, until they slip into it almost by alone in the leather. The edge top and bottom is doing something flat polished, and rather polished cutting edges on the Ahlen-iron, or made at least not dull. Unfortunately, you can see all bad to very bad Sattler Ahlen where to go also, never I see something really nice. When you see something like that, one wonders what they actually have in mind. http://www.jelldrago...ather_craft.htm At the handles, a distinction is made between those used for boring the stitch holes, so it uses the handles for "Cutting Awls". They must never simply round, they must have always a pronounced form,..., so you take them automatically in the same way and in the hand. This is very important, always equal angle put the stitch holes and which approaches really is regular and beautiful. Round handles are used only for round Awls, because where it is yes no matter how you put the Ahlen-iron into the hole. The round Ahlen here by me, which I did about 20 years ago as replacement for me, but until now still not used. The cutting Awls also. I myself have made their handles. I turned it on the wood-turning machine and ground. the wood is original Turkish boxwood. At the end, I did however not painted, but waxed. The Awls I still work with, are from the old Variety as it was Blanchard by approximately 50-60 years. When I came to the professional teaching, because my master and I went to the tool Cabinet to see what so there were Awls handles. There was not much to see except just 5-6 Awls wls handles by Blanchard otherwise wanted to have that no one. They had a form that had gone out of fashion. I took them and remained faithful to them until today, it is the best that there is. Later, I have made a little less distinctive form, but newly made also this ancient form in ebony. Pictured here are but from my profession teaching time. I see very beautiful decorations on the leather, and then often a loser for leather craftsmen to fasten the buckle. Something completely devalues the whole work in my opinion. the classic Sattler will assess as first is always the coming, and only if that is clean and fine, he will assess the work as well. The seam is the most important quality criterion at all. To get good sewing, a Saddler takes at least 3 years. In my works the seams on the back are also always sunk, so with the Groover from serrated and in the Groove is the engraving set. Seams that are sunk on the back hold 2 times as long, something which is very important for horses harnesses. There is also one with a flat awl grip under my pictures. The form is also quite good, if it was even invented to graduate at the produce to save. So now so much fun with the pictures. Greeting Walter . . The small case with the Awls did for time at the beginning of my professional teaching. That was in the Saddler course of your professional association, and he was held in the army barracks in Thun, near Bern. Each Saddler in the Switzerland a..............lso Sattler wanted to be in the army and so there was an introductory course for young professionals from 2 x 1 week in the army barracks.

Hello everybody... Thank you, it is nice that it you like, and I like to show it to you. It is a wonderful job, you should do everything to make him die. And I am also here interested in a completely different area of the world to learn. Well, I'm one of the Sattler who have worked so much now. A good Plough is more efficient to use such a large Riemenschneidmaschiene. To get forward more quickly with the work and it needs little power doing... If they are properly ground. The large Riemenschneider by Müller and Kurt, I long ago time sold, so a machine seemed to be useless. http://www.sieck.de/Maschinen/riemen-schneiden/details/Mueller-Kurth-Typ-37-n-riemenschneide-reifel-und-praegemaschine-generalueberholt/ Screws with round heads. Bruce, these screws are often missing, but you can't get them. Drinn you with round heads and the hole... Blanchard no longer makes them for decades. I've had to make some. Since I make no "series" but, but just 10 pieces, she has me Meschniker by hand, which took a prize so 15 minutes per schraube...was 20 francs meant. And it's cheap in the Switzerland. The screw with the hole but without the round head, the 12 francs are slightly cheaper. When one makes such screws, in whatever form, in a quantity of 100, they are much cheaper. There are sometimes also M-7, what there is in fact no longer the "metric" size M-6 and M-8, at Blanchard but the European tools. I need some bolts of it again, I won't do that again in the next few weeks. If you need 2-3, I can give you. If you need more it might be worthwhile to set up the machine, then they cost much less, but you must make enough. I would have to first new ask what they cost exactly. Sign up if you're interested. Greeting Walter

Hi leather craftsman... If you here earlier began his work as a student in Switzerland, you got so often a case with a basic need for tools. They were one forever. And when it was changed his employer you took the things in just this little box. Here in the Switzerland worked a SADDLER earlier only with his own stuff, and he brought that in the workplace, which were not provided by the master. This is a quite old model, as I teach in the came the ais were made and no longer covered with oilcloth wood. In addition, this model is more of an upholsterer, because this Pincushion in the lid was not so often to be found at Saddlers. The fabric was often a rest from mohair velours, a fabric made of goat hair. I have replaced the fabric here, the old man was full of moths. My box was me but the teaching already much too small at the end, I had at that time already exactly 66 tools... According to list of 1982. Greeting Walter

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Hi leather craftsman... Here something to the topic of plough-gouge. Some models here so could found in Switzerland. once. Here there was almost never a steel, which you didn't like here in the Switzerland, because she quickly content. Yes, in the 50 brought the Sattler such tools to the depositor and let chrome them en masse as rust protection. But these tools not proven because the good hard chromium process were not yet available. I think the ploughs were made of steel during the war years, when brass was in short supply and very expensive. So here are a few models, and especially German by Rössler, Langenhahn, etc. To do this, some knives and as they are ground. And I assure you, you can shave it. The last two blades are of Blanchard, I bought the last one in the series of images in my apprenticeship, between the and the 2 knives are probably the 60 years. When Blanchard one is noteworthy, he changed the quality usually very long time, things aren't always exactly the same over the decades. I used a knife 30 years now and it keeps still so long. If the knives are well ground, must you sharpen them only twice per year. Even if you used it for several hundred metres leather belt. So check it out. And as I said, the knife to the ploughs only from the left side grind, at a width of approx 1-1.5 cm. ...auf which outer side only the brow take, not more. And if you did it right, a belt will never suddenly to narrow lbe one because the plough at the cut wanders. Greeting Walter

Hello Macca... I get a few photos from my plough gouges and the knife to do this. The angle must be very shallow, the grinding zone as 1-1.5 cm. wide. It is important only that one on the left side of ...vom handle here seen, grinds and only pulls on the outer (right side), so that BREW away. Tighten any machine to the blade or to measure the angle is needed. That can be done by hand. If the angle is so steep, (12°) is then stuck the belt at the plough between the blade and the fence left ...und that cut will be difficult. Also, it is not helpful if the cut has a radius, because only 1 cm of the cutting surface is used when working with the plough. It is very good when you round the upper tip of the knife, because you is because when the work like to hurt. So, in the evening I put a few photos you. Greeting Walter

Hello Macca... You can find the catalog of from Ikas still quite often. Is nice, but he was not a manufacturer, but he sold the tools of other manufacturers. The knife is too steep ground, why so short...??? It may be quiet slightly wider ground and not so steep, the Plough-Gouge runs not to lead you by the leather away if he is cut wide, he but lighter. Hard leather as the "Zeugleder" of Switzerland leather you need cut so just much more force with belt. Greeting walter

Hi Ray ..... I do not always have time, but I will continue to Tread long ..... (((-: I still have many pictures I have to digitize but only before I can show them here once, and I also work with many books out plans, I would also like to show once here. From the saddle to the collar or harness I have everything clean recorded in drawings, but I have to test how can the pictures. So just be patient, then comes again what. This iemenschneider, yes the cost always money. The new in-Vergez Blanchard certainly close to 400 dollars depending on how old they are in Zustzand. Sometimes I buy one for 100 francs, then for a lot more. Only, ...... old Sattler found here almost no more. But Bruce has some very nice, if you want one, that would be a good choice. As he also purifies and service is always great, he must of course have a price. If you are looking for something specific, drop me a message and I'll have a look what may be found. greeting Walter

Oh soooo...((-: Well, also a plough in steel instead of brass would be interested again. I have many, the plough which I use for 30 years, but I always use nor the one I guess since my apprenticeship, which has always nor drinn the same knife for over 30 years. You will never need replacement...(((-: If you can scheifen and unnecessary material grinds away much...! But it is good if you have spare...((-: The splitter, the part you know. Use do it but only a few sattler here, mostly we take the machines with hand crank, but the shards are not bad. I have always that leather stripes split leather furniture to make the buttons for the pads in the carriage. Greeting Walter

Hello Macca Did you buy anything without the plough blades for the ploughs...???...((-: The first knife in the left row down, because I would be interested if you want to sell it once! The eyelet machine is very nice, with the brass parts because. In the half-moons it will be difficult if she surface on which rust scars, you won't get that. If one has once honed the blade up these scars, then it hardly still possible a good cut to grind. I've posted here even in the tread how I loop the things, I'd also the splitting machine with the lea make compound. Here again the link to do so. http://www.Lea.co.UK/help-and-advice/reference-charts/greaseless-abrasive-compounds.php There is nothing better, and it is much more effective as any other polishing paste. Grit No. 80 and 120 are ideal. I will make a few photos to the topic and set here. Greeting Walter

Hello Macca Did you buy anything without the plough blades for the ploughs...???...((-: The first knife in the left row down, because I would be interested if you want to sell it once! The eyelet machine is very nice, with the brass parts because. In the half-moons it will be difficult if she surface on which rust scars, you won't get that. If one has once honed the blade up these scars, then it hardly still possible a good cut to grind. I've posted here even in the tread how I loop the things, I'd also the splitting machine with the lea make compound. Here again the link to do so. http://www.Lea.co.UK/help-and-advice/reference-charts/greaseless-abrasive-compounds.php There is nothing better, and it is much more effective as any other polishing paste. Grit No. 80 and 120 are ideal. I will make a few photos to the topic and set here. Greeting Walter

Hi Tor................ Here at last, the way how I came to the embossing plates for the box-loops. First I tried part then Yes to make such casts, with the metal adhesive "Araldite black" here the schwarzgraue. In the Araldite is it however schweirig genaz z just work, because the original leather loops were 100 years old and of course warped and weird. Also tolerated these plates 8 metric tons not more pressure as s, 12 tons they got cracking. That because that glue is not very compact, it has always Lufstblasen like in the cheese. You can no longer use such plates for a small series. Then we have the pattern on Kuperplatten gfrässt to make ...bei quite simple geometric patterns. These copper plates used during "Erosion" as electrical pole, EDM works Yes by elekrtischem power. While the Kuper is worn but also, which means that the edge will always round, always flat. You can use 2 times the coppers to make tools, then they are consumed. The steel plates that I see here who have moved I have hard chromium for rust protection, layer in the "Durit" - 1-1/2. It lasts decades but expensive. By the way, have I to crisp the steel plates still, I did it with a graver as the engraver used him. You can see it in the corners well... The Rhombus of the hatch with a tool, I looked that this pyramid-shaped hollows a smoother surface get what one sees on the embossed leather very well. Somehow American and Swiss computer not good adjourn itself, which lyrics I are great once, then underlined, then small.............))-: Greeting Walter

Hello together. I'm a Swiss SADDLER, and about the profession for over 30 years. Excuse my bluntness, ...aber this sewing steeds that I see on the pictures, which are all useless. It is also of the Al Stohlman. I am amazed again and again how this poor utensils so long time get on the world and always some used. I have sewn English coach harness, with 14 stitches per inch, and all with double seams. Here you can sit for weeks on the Nähross. I've now got some km seam in the fingers, they gave up here all these instruments in Switzerland many decades ago. Here are some pictures looks like something you can really use it. The sewing horse must be separated from the Chair, not everyone is the same and not everyone sits right at the sewing. Under this sewing horses we screw here is still a heavy plate, so they have a good level. So here the LInks to do so. http://lederflechten.ch/e_shop/popup_image.php?pID=587&osCsid=0snuofjjhhket6a0hfl2qq6qp3 http://www.bernhardw.ch/typo3temp/pics/eb690a48df.jpg'>http://www.bernhardw.ch/typo3temp/pics/eb690a48df.jpg http://www.bernhardw.ch/ Greeting Walter

Absolutely correct Macca...((((-: The Switzerland is expensive... Norway also. But I think one of the most important items have a SADDLER must. The clean sewing is the scale of each leather work, not the decoration on the leather. Unfortunately, many leather artisans confuse this. The professional man looks at always the seam just comes and then the rest comes. And the sewing horse is what you need, in addition to the tools the most important. I have seen very many leather artisans, they could make often excellent decorations, but the hand-sewing work was mostly bad, the bites way too big, who sewed the thread not sunk back, visibly crossed, etc. I would really recommend, buys a good sewing horse and learns once at a SADDLER sew how with the. Yes, I know really well and finely sew Sattler, which are also hard to find. I use my sewing horse for 30 years, it is still good. at the company Bernhard in Worblaufen, Switzerland, found a slightly cheaper model, the mechanism which is but not quite as good. http://www.bernhardw.ch/ http://www.bernhardw.../eb690a48df.jpg Greeting Walter

Hello Macca The so-called "Nähkloben", as set out in the Switzerland hot, or as you say "Stitching-Clamps", which used more so for decades no one here no longer. Thus, you can make no ordinary program. Also the grpssen Molle which are so-called "sewing steeds" (sewing horses) here already use which come. Here to use only such things, which is available in different price ranges, this is the best, but also the most expensive. It is appropriate and makes work easier for very... The clamping mechanism is very strong and hold the leather to the sew safely and securely. http://lederflechten.ch/e_shop/popup_image.php?pID=587&osCsid=fk2o6gbv47bl8f49p7ergfhn31 Under the link, you'll find a picture. Greeting Walter

Hi leather craftsman... Tor : Thank you for your praise. Here is what titled collar manufacturing. you need these tools. so-called "Rhembourroir" in French, or "Collar filling sticks" on German. With which it fills rye straw in the collars, so in the prepared leather cover. These here are by Blanchard, I've never seen such from other workshops. Small Yes, but not the large 1 m - 1.40 m length. There are Sword-shaped blade, so as that you need the cutting Ahlen to sew, then in cross-section, oval, flat and round. Some of these myself many times have used here. How to use it, I think I'm going to a later once a series where you can see the collar production. The flat Füllstöcke, which was used for the fill of seat cushions. I like her but do not like to work, I'd rather have the itself made, the flat are too flexible to me. Greeting Walter

Hi guys... I can only bad English, but I have followed the issue leather knife with interest. I would like to say something about. I'm sattler for 35 years now, and I needed to in the time now 7 half-moon blade from 20 cm size until they just 10 cm were little. I have used almost every brand and grinding by hand and with the machine. I've had married once metallurgical explore some of my knives. 54 to 56 Rockwell hardness, what hardener is are the best has inferior grinding properties, or keeps the cut less well. the blades are too hard or not the right steel, they get at the likes to grind the bad BREW is to grind away. This is just for the chrome steel knives case. These have become modern in Europe after the war, but soon disappeared, the Sattler didn't like these knives. I myself have used it and don't like it either. You are not cut to size and unpleasant to grind. The old blades were forged under the machines-hammer, and then polished, these are the best to the grind and keep the cut best. There are also manufacturers the "raw form" forged the knife in a "die". From the Internet,...)) Industrial production: here one finds knives made with conventional mass production. The blades are die-forged first (raw metal pressed into a are form the or) to mass produce the blade blanks, then passed through a special furnace to be hardened and annealed, tempered or. (( So have a mold in which the molten Tin was inserted and came under the press. From walz - steel - sheet made that are bad as the old forged. as I said, I sure on the 50 of them over longer time ground and used. the knife by dixon have been bad 30 years ago who were company "Herder" in Germany by "Pick-Ass" so to brittle steel, and that 30 years ago. I have one still in my arsenal. The crescents of the other manufacturers are all made from thin sheet metal, they are all bad. The best are still the Blanchard, we must forget everything andre. I hardly know the half moon blades in the United States, which are mostly too small to us Europeans. For the saddlers, old school the good qualities to the grinding are as important as because everything else on a blade, he grinds it under the circumstances every day new. And just when one his bank stones by hand on the schleifft, is it very quickly once revealed how good they are. Greeting Walter

Hello together. Just a little time, but do have something quickly to the watch. Here are some knives as she used the sattler. You all know the skiving knife, ...die. The blades with curved forms was used to separate the straw, and the hook-shaped blades were to the cut off of the straw in the filled collars. The tips were all purpose knife. The work collars and also the English are made with rye straw, and that is cut off with the chopping blades if you SEW these collars up. To the sewing together of the thick collars filled with straw to use that collar-awls. There a few different versions, here. Oh, and then there is a knife handle with a razor blade is I use that to cut lambskins. You want to cut the leather, but not hair that it also cut. It is believed the longhair lambskins horses sleigh to equip. One draws the benches thus makes also cover it transforms freezes. Greeting Walter

Hi Simon... But never mind, every picture is welcome. Something very insignificant can be very interesting.................. I started even with little, with a handful of tools when I stood for the first time in the Saddlers's workshop of my teacher. And everything was rusty and needed, and neither was good. Well, today it has E-Bay, previously was at the flea market. Only one is become worse, the saddlery where you can watch the craft to learn, who are almost all died. The Ploug gouge is a "Rössler" or correctly just "Felzer and Meller" in Thuringia, Germany. What means "Import 14", which is not known to me, also never saw it...??? Who made exactly such patterns exactly so for the first time, I don't know. But I have at Saddlers 30 years ago ploughs views, which were quite similar to this pattern, but at the age of 150-180. Unfortunately I could not buy, it looked already as the but not with screw by Blanchard that blade was attached to the device, but had a thickening which has been inserted into a Groove down at the edge without any screws. The plough was also much more decorated in the small details, since a margin, there a knurling or hatch. Blanchard did not invent it well, but it was a mutual copy good ideas. Greeting Walter

Oh, and I thought, I remain the only one who has such a thing for all time... Naja................. It is exactly by Mayer and Flammery. Greeting Walter

Hello Macca Well, then go ahead... You know, I'm always curious about everything. A few pictures and put it up, and if it has something special, then we make an Exchange - trade...((-: Anxiously waiting... Greeting Walter

Hello leather craftsman ..... Now times weider a variety Zuden eternal tools. This is getting boring .... else ((-: Here as I have a riding crop, and when I purchase the ivory itself produced. Next to it is still a rough-cut piece that is still waiting to use. Fine Elfnbein gerbeitet with beautiful grain and throughout classical form. I've only shot it, ..... then finely sanded by hand with sandpaper and polished with a simple circuit grinding white paste on a whole new "sewn cloth buffing wheel." The whip to the horse's head was actually the Sunday whip my grandfather. Quite "high nose" for farmers. I should clean it once again ....)) -: Aso he came into the possession of the whip when he had to help a rich man in the city with a Kredit.. The man has never picked up his whip. That was about 1920. greeting Walter

Hello leather craftsman ..... So, here is what the topic ....... punch. Some of Langenhan, of Blanchard, Rössler and an oval of the company "Cimco", a still-known manufacturers, such beautiful ..... just perfect punch he does not. Then some pinking punches, pricking irons, etc. And 2 sets of punch with interchangeable Pipes. both are excellent in handling and punched leather parts wonderfully easy to fall out. greeting Walter