walter roth

Hi Tor The old knives were only the front of the cutting hard, because they were made ​​of 2 parts. Back was normal steel and the blade ..... maybe 2 inches wide, was forged in the fire. If one makes the old knife clean, you can see the seam where they were forged together. This was made at that time, because you could not drill through the hard steel blade. So you just did it in two parts. Today, however, one can make the blade from a piece of hard steel, and cut with a laser, the holes ..... or the shape around ........ Even today one can also mill very hard metals, grinding, etc. So, who wants to make a knife today, there has been much easier. greeting Walter

Hi Trox So here in Switzerland, it is always possible to have prepared such blades. There are knife makers here do that. Moreover, they are always made with hollow ground here, because the blades are perfectly polished, otherwise you can not take the plane. The hollow grind is better than the normal straight flat grind, but he must be made to the grindstone with a machine, and absolutely accurate. The final grinding operation is always the leather strop like the razor with me. So should anyone ever have problems with knives, just ask, I can help. Gate, if you ever have a problem with knives, send it to the company that works perfectly. He has experience with all the knives for saddlery. I know it's Awkward, but then usually done for years. Messerschmiede: Röthlisberger Walter Bäraustr. 26 3552 Bärau BE * 034 402 12 97 Fax *034 402 47 72 E-Mail: *info@messer-knife.ch greeting Walter

Hi Tor... Very thanks. Well, you do what you can......................... Can I get in the next few weeks even a sliver with crank from German production. One of the very fine, lightweight, an very handy. If I get it I will add it here, and if one is interested, he can buy them. She should be not even expensive. .....)))))) But I still don't have it in my hands. (((((( I do photos in the next few Days time of my Splitters, you see dan what it so looks like in the Switzerland. I'm amazed that very good fine German Models are never anywhere to see, especially in the United States, not always. Where are the Splitter-Machine ? just the all...?....)))-: For me always amazing, this one in the United States for getting the old Leather-Plane-Encounters, the Splitter Type 86 from Osborne, etc. Now they're easy and work well, I also use it for certain things. So look forward to the photos from Tor.......................... Greetings Walter

Hi Trox http://www.ebay.com/...cvip=true&rt=nc This is precisely that of which I spoke, I just have too. You can press the bracket forward so that it lifts the thin upper roller and then you can introduce the leather. So you can once again reached Leather thickness equal split. I'm going to make a few photos of my splitters on occasion. But it takes something as 2 weeks. greeting Walter Ps: And of course we are all waiting curious about the beautiful Photos ..... (((-:

Wen i make such leather skiving work, I also use the Half Moon Knive. But I use it as a pad to work a lithographic stone, because of this the knife grinds rather than doing it in the butt to work even at a very shallow angle works. http://www.google.ch/search?q=lithographiestein&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.bGE,pv.xjs.s.en_US.seW1cfrvSKg.O&biw=1101&bih=626&wrapid=tlif137563858861410&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hJT-UYygKY_g7Qack4GwDQ#imgdii=_ yes, I know the knife, but use them less. Ds are you doing in any case very well, and with a nice hollow grind. greeting Walter

Hi Leather Guru. Ah, you've made yourself ..... ((-: Very well. I have here a link on the Horn as material. http://de.hornvarefabrikken.dk/falzbein/ But I have not ordered anything yet there. greeting Walter

I also respectful of all. You are a very good designer. greeting Walter from Switzerland

Leather Guru But hey ........... You're not from a bad family,,,,, ((((-: So as a Knife, a Quarter-Moon I am looking for a long time. The image 4 on the left JPG 36, from below the 5 th Knive I mean. represents round-quarter moon. Reifel and the bone jaws (Creasser with Bone nand Woodenhandle) who also like it very much, is also a model unknown to me. On the left of Figure 5, or JPG 37, second from right, in the upper right corner I think. If you are looking for something and want to share what. I also have round-iron awls, round of quite outstanding quality of old! .... Or do you need a set of old Blanchard pricking wheel, 8-20 blind or normal .....? ..... - 30 years ago bought at Blanchard .....!! greeting Walter. Oh, .................and it's the first time that I see this model Splitter, and carries a brand of blanchard. ps. Here is the link to a manufacturer of saddlery bone. In German Langwhich ......Sattler - Falzbein. http://bruno-otto.de...ard_seite2.html

Hi Trox Yes of course I know the company Sieck. But they usually have machines from the industry, the weirklich good little Spaltmschinen you never will unfortunately. Edit thin fine leather is not really with them. And ...."Müller und Kurt" Machines are not really good, except for gross stuff Spare parts for these machines and reprocessing are at .... "Wolfgang Twenty MKO Offenbach" ..... made, the page I posted in connection with the last German toolmaker for Saddler's tools. All spare parts you get there. The type of splitter 86 to the bracket on the matter, because I know and I have you ever really understood how you meinnst it. This is a model from Europe, perhaps the first model or a Copie, who knows? ....? But for the work they are handier. A premium recycled splitting machine always costs the 1000-1500 Swiss francs. Because the old cost 500 and the repair position of the knife with hollow-cut and adjust and clean the whole a lot of work. I need this mostly as two days, it makes the fine leg provide the lower transport roller, upper roller and the blade about 2 hours work. For this, the machine will work much better than anything else. Unfortunately, I just do not sell to, but have been safely treated at the 10. I've seen your link to the paste, but it is not vergleiochbar with that I use. If you are viewing categories, I can send you a sample patterns once. you'll see the difference immediately. greeting Walter

Hi Tor............. This brace over the role to only make the handling easier .. This clip is pressed forward to lay the leather under the knife, let go and then you can pull it through the splitter and split leather. This is handy if you do not want to just split a belt, but several of the same thickness. Then it is not to make precise, if you always use the crank to adjust the thickness. No, the crank can mean such one, and used the bracket to the splitter to open, and then introduce the leather. The splitter is the best. Below the link, it is that I use for 30 years The model in the picture has the additional apparatus for machine belts columns, but this is not really good. The machine itself is but excellent. But it is not by Blanchard, who they sold but they came from Germany. here is the photo link.............. https://fbb03d4f-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/ifojoss/outils-bourrelier-sellier/galerie-1/510.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7creRNDrSQrZjI0X6oeG5TOXUiWuISzsHcFfrdepEJQX_zxXrZvb6CLHmP54kxv4_zBz807x3a9hG4wcrjykE0JuGoISqfSUs_R6XUY4rY4ou5sntJDq_ZCOX5MNKzVYXu7Sn8kbNQe6o6L4VXd5g07EiEwswXKq0GZDWVMg8u4Qt2jJNiTg7Yvj_yBCTx3VT3YdC7rDGBz1I0FRpMuijV7C1FVJWumcFyrqkATj1LIqNBtETbVO1C0Hi9ixOBt1MXZs8ht2&attredirects=0 The paste that I use to "before polishing" to grind the surfaces and prepare for the polish, but is not a polishing paste, but a grinding paste with a grain size of 80, 120, 150, etc. Here you can see how the bars look. http://www.caswellplating.com.au/store/store.php/products/lea-greaseless-compound Or do you get them here also. http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_96_214_216&products_id=3184&osCsid=dced England http://www.equipmidlands.co.uk/products/polishing-materials-satin-finish-compounds.html It would interest me but what is your paste, as it is called and who makes them? .....? Can you give me a link to .....? Greeting Walter

Splitter 2............ Incidentally, I have a splitter such as this. http://brucejohnsonl...rn-splitter.jpg the ........... but of "Meyer and Flammery Paris" and has a metal plate on it. Which also differs from the models from which one finds in the U.S.. I'm going to take pictures, but it takes a few days. I think these chips were copied each other and used as popular. The old one simple model is a guy like him Randall also produced, as they are seen on Bruce's website. Here in Europe we use the splitter with hand crank from German production, which were then sold by Blanchard. These are the best there is, the only set of knives is very delicate. http://brucejohnsonl...rs-and-skivers/ I have bought all old gate, my tools, new ngab it only little. When the sattlöern was some things never used, then they were some very beautiful in the State. But for me there are no rist, no patches, no, the finer the surface, the less they will rust. I have by the plough gouges 10.00 piece models. These models the Roessler are the most beautiful that exists. Ihave the paste in any of my posts I described to the grind use, sih you that again. Lea Compound / http://www.lea.co.uk/abrasive/comps3.htm Greetings Walter

Hi Tor This is quite simple, it is a "thread cage" in French .... "Dividoir a fiscelle" They laid the cord or thread roll into it tightened down through the hole and hung the whole of the workshop ceiling. Whenever they needed a piece of thread they simply left out, so there were no knots or something ...... (((-: they used these parts not only for saddlers, they also pack cord was handy. When you consider what such a casting cost ....... ((-: The model looks like dfas Blanchard, I did, but it differs from the type of 86 Osborne and Dixon on the model, but is otherwise very similar.However, the large model with the pull lever, which is a model fpr belt manufacturer, so for the big belt on the machine earlier. Therefore it was particularly important that the tightening was very accurate, otherwise the belt was not calm and even jumped off the drive wheel of the machine. Leg Saddlers you found the model rarely, because the big companies had always hired a propellant Maschine-Strap-Sattler, and the saddler has these splitter. Rose Knives............ As for the Half-Moon Knife, I used up to now none of Rose, Osborne, etc. Gomph Here are the little known in Europe, and they are much too small. If Bruce once has a 7 inch, I'll buy it. II use the knife liked when they have 8-9 inches, including they are small for me ......... I have Half-Moon with 12 Inches......((((((-: But I have no doubt that there was in the U.S. toolmaker, or .... still, make good knives. I find the wide French edger of Gomph indeed better than anything made ​​Blanchard. Very handy, fine and good to grind. Greeting Walter

Hi Tor and hallo Bruce I have emailed you the files by "Lutz Kremp" and "Blanchard". And here again the link to some good pictures. I hope it works with the large attachments. https://sites.google.com/site/ifojoss/outils-bourrelier-sellier/galerie-1 Walter

Hi Tor .......... Well, the stories of Tor with the hammer I have ever read as a child, along with Connan the Barbarian ..... ((((-: .... and Prince Ironheart ....................... Norway is an unknown country for Swiss Sattler, like they had a unique culture in the harnesses for work. So I gladly give you the PDF, send me your email address. The price lists are also included. This type of H, the so-called Saddle-Maker-Hammer, which I also have some with wooden handle, horn handle and there were also those with bone handles, with the bones I saw only once in an auction catalog. It is quite possible, that was the one knife making as a repair like this. In Blanchard, there were also workers, after they have retired, still continued to work privately at home. I have such a tool with the Brand ......."Portrait of Paris,"....... has made super fine tools, but it is very rare to find. that was the Worker from Blanchard, told me an old Saddler from France. Here's what to look at. https://sites.google.com/site/ifojoss/outils-bourrelier-sellier/galerie-1 You can buy anything from him that all things are sold. In addition, the prices had ..... Wow. Then there was the even of the most beautiful things ever made, the company "Strolz Paris" had only very fine ebony handles with inlaid shield made ........nickel silver........... or as the French say, ............."Argentan".............. Blanchard was indeed famous, but by far not the best. Even in Switzerland there was a tool making, the ......."Niggli Aarburg"............ has worked very clean. Then the best knives from the company .............."Backaus"............. a Knivemaker in Bern. They were better than that of Blanchard. Backaus made the Half Moon Knife for the Swiss Army Sattler. So now I've visited. Yes here is the second of August, yesterday was National Day with us. Greeting Walter

Hello together. I have a whole Blanchard catalog as a PDF and as photos. Even a different dealer of these tools, also from paris, who had wei this same tools but so good. If this interests you, please is it tells me I can set the images here. Here are a few sample photos. Walter

Hi Ralph It is true what you say.................. But if over 40 harness by Hand has been cut to like me, then you learn that it not just on the hard and high-alloyed material arrives. Today, it is a completely different approach to the knife making. The today's knives are as hard as possible, with the idea that they by hardness of less quickly in sharpness lose... Earlier made a steel represented a middle ground. The blades should do well and be good to raise. Today, there are many knife for sharpening a brow get which is difficult to remove. The brow is machine grinding removes the fatty polishing paste with, the paste sticks a little and it pulls away the brow. The old blades were just an unsurpassable steel, but not just a so hard, brittle. The manufacturer could do so only with experience because customers said that they are just good knife. Technique you still wasn't able to examine the steel metallurgical exactly and to establish exactly how today it may be. It's like with the samurai swords, you can a steel today who make wonderful is, nevertheless, swords out of it are not really good. I have spent probably 200 hours to sharpen my knife, and I met with the differences. Perfect for sand crescents by hand takes each knife 20 minutes. only the hand-ground get a perfect shape, but they are not so nice at the loop point, they look slightly scratched. But they are unbeatable and perfect silhouette of the blade. By the way, I cut since my training only on plates made of plastic as they use the butcher. Limewood or Poplarwood are less well to the knife, and their structure is the arch tailor not suitable. So, the modern things are often very good. Greeting Walter

Ops....................... The Photos are probably some big doe ........... Sorry. well, I'll learn it. thank wolfe09 something one hears of course very happy .... (((-: walter

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Hi there. Here are some of the few pictures I've taken with the Digitalkammera. It is a Renault from 1911 was built at the Swiss company Saurer Arbon truck. That is, only 1911 Renault supplied the frame the frame and underbody of the car including the engine. Everything else was made in custom. The calculation of the time is still there, it was 13 `000 francs. At that time, the sufficient to build a large mansion. The HOlzaubau was re-made, the engine and everything else obsolete, newly painted Polished etc. The son wanted to get married, owner of the saddlery and always the letzteb craftsmen in such a work, I've spent the last Borden used as approximately 100 wedding guests were waiting. that was the best advertising I have ever had, because these people enjoyed the aperitif, and amused themselves very gutm because something they had never seen before. A Car-Sattler life to work. The borders for the car, I left extra-weave, the brass parts on the car doors I made also new to. The Ortiginale were made ​​of ivory, but since there is a trade ban for it, I took brass, in contrast to the silver mine was little. The material is a heavy Woolen of about 650 grams per square meter. A so-called "Paspoil", swisslangwich, a Cavalry-cCoth, as you previously used this material for Uniforms. The Leather of the Drivers-Bench is here color not good, I have photographed the Car in the Collection and in the Evening. So I hope it makes you much pleasure. Walter Roth

Hello Ralph. I am unfortunately no French, but would surely find someone who can translate. English unfortunately too little, but the problem would dissipate safely. I would sure find which helps us and speaks perfect English. St. Gallen is approximately 280 kilometres from Geneva. If you are willing to look past but surely and we stir us even through the tools, leather-splitting machines, etc. End of August would be no problem. Well the tools by Blanchard, who were very nice. But about 8 years ago, I was once in the Poursin, there, I've seen many old boards with horse harness fittings of various world exhibitions. Gold plate coated, and beautifully engraved stuff. Unfortunately the Camera in Paris was stolen from me, about 200 photos of the old fittings are no longer available. These were part of the Time from Napoleon the third. http://www.poursin-Paris.fr/s-Affiche-fr.php http://www.poursin-Paris.fr/ What you can see of it still on the website is the same issue as with the tool by Blanchard. Louis Vuitton but still gets its fittings of Poursin. Steel for tools. I have tested my good Half Moon once, the good have 64 Rockwell hardness. These are to grind the very good and they are almost always made ​​from geschmideten plates, ie forged under the big machine hammer. Unfortunately, this long no longer made​​. If you're with me, I'll show you time how do I loop it. I make them by hand or by machine, but have a special grinding paste from England. http://www.Lea.co.UK/abrasive/comps3.htm Lea Compounds is a fatless grinding paste themselves to the work of grinding very well is ideal. She so much material takes away that sparks spray, but it is a paste that to a normal slice of sewn fabric. The half moons get not an ever darker angle, they remain thin and easy to grind. As a second step I take a polishing paste and finally a strop as at the razor. I think the good hard Arkansas unfortunately little more I mean the grey to anthracite dark that seem almost transparent. I use Lea compund for croppers, etc. So, now, but enough for today. Walter

Thank you Bruce Let's see if I'll be here a lot of use .... (((-: I just found you on the weekend of the Louis Hombrechtikon know also. http://www.leder-louis.ch/ I've known him for 30 years. 2 nice tools you sold him. There is also a swiss Manufacturer makes the Edger. It is the very famous company "Pfeiltools" in Langenthal. They are very well known for its wood carving Accessories Welding. They make Edger they are very easy to perform, but they need some exercise to regrind them. They have a round bottom so that they are easy to carry over the edge, but with a straight blade. Really very fine quality. 3 sizes to about 35 dollars a piece. But they are not in the catalog, just ask! ....! The website is in English. http://www.pfeiltools.com/en/distributors.html F. Zulauf Messerschmiede und Werkzeugfabrikations AG Dennliweg 29 CH-4900 Langenthal Phone +41 (0)62 922 45 65 Fax +41 (0)62 922 01 14 www.pfeiltools.com info@pfeiltools.com MKO GmbH in Germany.The Wolfgang Zwanzig of the Company MKO is not as old, but it never asked. I will certainly Reports, with Photos when I was with him. This Manufacturer has previously worked for Tool -Traders, the Craftsmen knew this Company does not, because the dealer kept the secret Addresses. That is the reason why almost no one knows it Today. Unfortunately, he did not have a Website, a great pity. I'll talk to him. Greetings Walter

Hey Macca Hi Macca I will adjust my work pictures. Unfortunately, I have almost all taken with a conventional camera, so I can not simply set here. I have only worked up. But if you have some patience, I'll do it. The pictures of a car, a Renault from 1911 with an installation by the Swiss company Surer I have digitally. Of this I can adjust what ends here in next few days.

The tool brand with the Horse is the "Feller and Melzer in Thüringen Kleinschmalkhalden". The manufacturer of these Tools is referred to as .... "Rossler" difficult to translate. A "Pferd" or "Ross" is in German Langwhich a Horse, "Rossler" is a horse man. They are the best Tools out there. The "Rossler" has all the tools of Blanchard copied, but they made finer and cheaper. The Plough Gouge of saddlers paffrath not Saddler used here, which are made just too bad. The last toolmaker "Emil Zwanzig "from Offenbach. MKO GmbH Wolfgang Zwanzig Betinastrasse 69 D - 63067 Offenbach am Main Tel. 069 8008140 Fax. 069 8008148 E-Mail : MKOmaschinen@aol.com He makes all the spare Parts for the Mueller and Kurt Splitter, etc, but has previously made only Saddlery-Tools. Unfortunately, he has no useful website, and if he can speak English, I do not know. He makes punches, Plough Gouges, etc................ I will go in 2 Months and the whole clarify exactly once. Especially if he's really willing to manufacture when you order the fine old quality. The two Plough Gouges like pliers look at the picture of 13, one of brass and the other of steel, these tools were used to cut and strappy leather for the Bride. Braided horse reins, or un incisions to make the front and rear are not cut. These tools are found almost exclusively by German manufacturers. They are very practical, but only if they cut very well.

hello to USA I am a saddler from Switzerland. i will start to look like the Swiss tools here with us this way. I speak little English, anyway, I hope you have fun at the pictures. I am a traditional saddlery and learned the profession in a saddlery. I restore carriages, cars before 1914 and put her harness and collars for about 15 varieties of Harnesses. These tools are a Part of my Workshop and I collect them for 30 years. I do use them, they are not just there to watch. The Swiss Sattler have the tools from Germany always rather like that of Blanchard and Dixon, as the German toolmakers have always worked more accurately and were cheaper. Unfortunately, one of the last two toolmakers Died 4 years ago, and now there is only a German tool makers of Saddlery Tools manufactures. With him, I will once again be making a set of punch, very fine German quality as it used to 70 years ago. Blanchard had 30 before partent in his workshop a tool cupboard in which the tools of the World Exhibition of 1896 in Paris. These tools are now in the possession of the company Hermes Paris. quality. Blanchard had a cupboard in his workshop, in which were the tools of the World Exhibition of 1896, these tools are now in possession of the company Hermes in Paris.