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I would've finished the edges on the inside pockets...hard to see the outside edges, but those don't appear to have been finished either...

Ok, well that's good. I think you may be happy with the results once you try it on a few items...

You should at least attempt the method I PMed you about before potentially wasting money on a portmanteau pricking iron, but whatever...if you've got money to burn, go ahead...

I wasn't going to say anything before, but since this is the third separate thread you've posted about this, your prices are really, really high. I can get an entire Clayton shell for what you're trying to get for 1 ft^2. ...and from what I've heard from many who have used both, the quality is comparable to Horween and some of those folks actually prefer Clayton over Horween, so...

Tried that before and got called a liar, so I just send it via PM anymore. If you search, it's in another thread on saddle-stitching I posted in...a few of them, I think...

Sent you a PM on how to fix your stitching.

Ok what is the "fee" to ship one of those stamps to the United States?

.....exactly what Ryan said...that's what I do...

Polish and then poke them into paraffin or beeswax between uses. They'll come out a lot easier then.

Yeah, I agree...tandy is garbage. You can pretty much count on not being able to get any of your investment back out of them when you figure out they're junk. Leathercrafttools.com does have better quality tools at decent prices. I recommend starting there...

I wouldn't pay that much for a single pattern by itself...

How much of the strap did you fold over the d-ring and down behind the strap? How are you going to finish the top edge? Fold over or sew a binding over it?

Yeah, make sure and post pics of the bottom side stitching once you get it.

Well, you are wrong. It sewed this way on delivery without me having changed anything from when it was sewn off. I don't recall asking for your opinion, so you'll excuse me if I disregard it. It's not ME...it's the god-forsaken MACHINE. I've read too many other people on here in countless threads complaining about exactly the same thing and the UNIVERSAL ANSWER is either "that's just how they sew" or "get a needle and awl machine." There are too many people posting with exactly the same issues with the bottom stitching for it NOT to be the machine.

In my first post in this thread, I was going to say what stevieboy7 said....but maybe not as delicately. Anyway, I do have a used bell knife blade available right now if you really want to try this. Oh, and FWIW, my machine runs the knife and feed wheel off of one motor.

drmca...I have a used bell knife skiving blade I'll sell you right now, if you're interested...it's in a box, ready to go out immediately.

http://bfy.tw/2VsR First link in the google results you'll get by going to the link above...has a whole thread with the link to the tutorial and discussion of it.

I have a Cowboy 3200 and hate it. The bottom stitches look like garbage and according to the general consensus on here, the solution is either to 1. "You should've bought a needle and awl machine if you want pretty bottom stitches" or 2. "Spend an inordinate amount of time going over your bottom stitches with an overstitch wheel (which ONLY works if your stitching is EXACTLY the same length as whatever overstitch wheel you have by the way)...hammer the bottom stitches, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum,.." I don't have time for any of that nonsense. If I DID, I wouldn't have bought the darn thing and would still be saddle-stitching everything I make...which I pretty much do now because of the aforementioned ugly bottom stitches from the machine. I'm thinking about changing to a different type needle...but no one on here really has recommended that as a fix and the person that sold me the machine really doesn't seem to have any suggestions on how to fix the bottom stitches so they don't look like they're pulling/cutting the leather and makes the SPI on the bottom look different than the SPI on the top.

Umm...I haven't sold mine...I'm not sure how that came across, but I have one and haven't sold it... Don't even waste your time at a local (consumer) sewing machine/vacuum cleaner place...all they sell are the equivalent of "fisher price 'my first sewing machines'"...complete waste of time trying to go there for anything... I've even tried to find industrial machine dealers in Houston and couldn't locate any. The only place that sells leatherworking machines in Texas (that I know of) is Campbell-Randall...they are in Yoakum, TX, so not too far from SA...they don't sell Cowboy machines, but they have pretty much any other type of leatherworking machine you could want...Needle and Awl machines, automatic rivet setting machines, edging machines, skiving machines, band knife splitters...it's worth a visit if you can get there on a weekday. They don't sell leather though...only place I know of that does in Texas is tandy and their leather sucks.

Nope. There isn't anyone in Texas that sells them, as far as I know. Maybe someone in the area might let you play with one of their machines, but as far as dealers there aren't any nearby from when I searched for somewhere to buy mine.

You know what...nevermind. Knock yourself out...

Last time someone asked about this, someone posted a link to an asian seller of a stamp that is used to do this.

^^^-------...what he said...

That looks pretty nice...

Any pics of leather you've skied with it?