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I've ordered a lot of English kip that I use to make inner soles and the vegan tooling leather for leather goods. but I treated the vegan after dying with meletonian Polish and fiebings wax to soften it a bit as it was a little stiff at the start.

Yes. I've used them a few times.

With Polish or carnauba wax

I have used those cheap machines in the past and have had great results. It took a lot of trial and error on scrap leathers. writing kiss time, cooling time and temperature. The first thing I would suggest is to buy some better foil. It probably came with a real crappy one and makes it harder.

First let me ask did you thread it correctly? Do you have the cord going through the tiny offset hole in the whiler gear at the top of the horn?

Do you know how to time these? If not I can help.

We shoe makers make those knives out of hacksaw blades. Take to a skilled shoe repair or shoe maker and they will show you.

I do the same as craftsman827 works perfect

That's a nice machine but only serves one purpose insole stitching. Where are you located I'm kind of in the market for one if I can get it at decent price.

You can buy prefabricated marble slab for $125 big enough for a work bench You can buy prefabricated marble slab for $125 big enough for a work bench

That's what I thought also.

What pressure foot is this?

What thread size are you using?

Liner and Taylor's cloth or bridle leather

The rubbing off is normal to most dyes.. I usually do what I call a mid coat then a top coat... A good way to get most of the rubbing off out is to buff it with tissue paper like the ones that are in gift bags. It absorbs a lot of the dry dye. You should also try using carnuba cream but this will affect the over all color.. I usually make tests of dye strength + carnuba cream to achieve final color. It will take a few test strips and patience

The Japanese ones are the best. Wish I could read them... Japan hasbthe highest standard of leather work.. They are true craftsmen and perfectionist because in the 70's all Japanese leather craft was crap... The world would make fun of them.. so they pulled it together to be in the top 3 leather manufactures worldwide today.

"- Are there any tutorials available for hand stitching double gussets? It seems pretty straightforward: stitch the two gussets together, and then stitch the whole unified double gusset onto the front/back (easier said than done, I'm sure, but still not unduly complicated). Am I missing something?" Pretty much you got it... Easy part is hand stitching that... Hard part would be machine stitching that.. Took me a week to finally figure out how to machine stitch that.. Have to use different tensions on corners and such... As far as how many gussets I think profession would dictate that.... Or customers preference

We is me and my dad. He started making shoes when he was 8 years old. I can't give away all informations but I can tell you cost of materials is a lot less than price. Labor for those is not as much as most because they look like "contact" construction. Depending on where you go in Italy the price would be approxametly the same with exchange rate.

We can make those for you but your looking at $1000 - $1500 PM me if you are interested with your standard size to make sure we have the proper last. And Jwalker is right back home in Italy we have one on every corner : ) but her in the USA it's a dying art because we are conditioned to buy cheap

I believe the original wwii paratrooper boot is made from cordovan. The modern reproduction Corcoran paratrooper boots is bovine. It will be hard to replicate that exactly those have been shined many times with Lincoln Polish. The original paratroopers would use a diaper, tooth brush and patience. They would not burn the wax like the modern fighting man does. Your best bet would be Hubbards boot Oil. But first use a diluted light brown angelous shoe dye.

The bookbinders mainly use a bench top parring machine

It is different layers of leather. I have done that before but never with a high shine like that.. It is possible that they have used the gloss edge lacquer

Anti-fray has a horrid smell to it... You can get very thin cromex leathers for the liner. The leather is not too thick if you Skive the edges and fold it over. I've folded 5-6 oz leather before

You can also try polaroid emulsion transfer. Dont know of it Will work

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