antiquecowboy

I've been getting sidetracked to unrelated tasks... In response to a couple of comments I made a minor adjustment to the design... I changed out the outboard eyebolts holding the springs to an easily set up mechanism using modified thumbscrews and wing nuts. The tension can now be adjusted from near zero pressure to more than should ever be required. I'm working on putting the whole deal into an e-published document... which when finished will be available online and I'll likely put a notice in the proper forum on this board...

The movable jaw is the right hand jaw. The awl is held in your right hand pushing against the left hand - FIXED - jaw. That jaw ain't movin'. I could see if the thing was MIS-built and the movable jaw was the left hand. Then, even a leather strap does a poor job. You would be pushing against the movable jaw. This horse is NOT that way. Take Time testing? I'm coming 62... lost count of the hours I've spent sitting on a stitching horse, sewing on skirts, fenders, heavy belts, heavy albums, heavy halters... I've got a fairly solid grasp of what works and what doesn't. You don't believe this is a good design. That's ok. No worries.

hmmmm... the springs won't work? Not my first rodeo... I didin't have any skirts laying about... Did have my old shop album full of pictures of what I'd built... seems to hold it up ok... so then... I got curious... and picked up an unused plank I built the horse out of... now that pine was slick so I had to put a couple pieces of leather alongside it for the jaws to get traction... ... but... if your skirts are heavier than that?... Having rode a lot of leather off a tree chasin' cows... I'd suggest for the horses sake... build those suckers a mite lighter... and I didn't use the strongest springs available... Truth be known, I changed the hinge on the jaw... That's the one place I've had trouble... finding a hinge that wasn't so sloppy.

I'm brand new around here. Just now in the process of restarting my Leather Shop after a few years of what most folks consider being "semi-retired"... though... I never truly quit working. I just found, I'd thought, a way I could work less hard... Economics and a desire to eat has pushed me to take on the more common labors required to keep beans in the pantry. I ran my own custom leather shop for a numer of years primarily building gun leather for the cowboy action shooting market. So... as I work at gearing up a fresh shop I was needful of building a new stitching horse... since I'd given the last one I built away... I've been publishing mostly Western Fiction on Amazon and such the last few years... and that gave me an idea. I've seen folks hunting around for "Plans" and such for Stitching Horses. I'm curious if an Ebook for the building of this particular design might find a bit of popularity? I was thinking a price of $2.99 or so would be fair? with full list of tools, parts list and a goodly number of photographs and descriptions/directions showing how to put it together? I'm hoping this is the right forum to place this post, as it is only an enquiry... I appologize to the administrators if it is not. Your comments about the need or desire for such a publication is most appreciated.