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RockyAussie already mentioned( in passing, a while back , in an unrelated thread ) this widespread ( for about 50 years ) method of embossing leather...No "magic method"/ "nothing new" here .. Search Milliput..the best for working in high detail ..like taking molds from tooled leather work..or stamping into / embossing cased leather..Or ..if you can't get Milliput..( made in Wales ) various "charged" epoxy puttys ( like JBWeld etc ) will also work , just not so quite well..their definition is not so good when used this way, nor do they last as long.

That's the way :) , now ..where the rawhide touches the willow, you'd also get a colour change..it would go slightly darker with age, as the proteins leech out from the rawhide into contact with the compounds in the willow.. so...

I might know of one in Paris..and maybe one in London..I'll get back to the thread if I can find them again..They are IIRC mainly studs but I think they do some rhinestones, whether they are "prong" I can't remember, very long time since I used them.

Using FF on Linux..(I don't let any windows machines connect to the internet )..No problems at all to connect to here since the new cert.

Like I said..don't know them..take some leather ( thicker than you think you'll need to sew in the next 12 months or so ) and test it..not the direct drive one..Agree with Brian.."very vague spec"..Is that a "But" enough ? :)

Direct drives ( where "the motor is one with the head" ) are "interesting"..until they go wrong..Then they can cost you more than the machine did originally just to get them repaired..and you'd better hope that the dealer has all the spares to hand..which they will not. Eric ( @gottaknow ) has more experience than anyone with them than anyone else that I can think of that is a member here.

Very nicely done :)..You should search Youtube for leather flowers..most of the videos are in Russian, but you'll be able to see things that will expand your techniques.

A local example of eejits..Despite this being probably the wettest part of France. For years it has been illegal to burn garden rubbish..mainly because it is very windy here..and fires can spread fast.. So.. week before last ..I walk outside..smell smoke ( burning plant type smoke, I knew it was Mimosa from the smell, lot of Mimosas here )..I see dense cloud of smoke, and falling ash, burning leaves and cinders, some glowing..So..I go to explore..I find the fire about 100 meters from us in an enclosed garden..landscaping company from the next town over has cut down a Mimosa, and has arranged the cut off branches and leaves into 3 loose piles..in a straight line in the garden..The wind is blowing in a straight line down the line of the piles, each pile is about as big as a large panel truck..the piles are 3 meters or so from each other. The cut logs are laid to one side..as are the cut sections of trunk..There is a 10 litre clear plastic jerry can of two stroke mix next to the last pile of branches and leaves..The house , which has wooden cladding on the wall two stories high is empty, owners live in Paris, the clad wall is at 3 metres or so from the pile where the two stroke mix was left..The first pile is burning away..giving of a lot of smoke and flying burning "bits"..the second pile hasn't caught yet ( but it will as it is direct line ) and the 3rd pile is where the fuel is waiting.. And the tree cutters, fire lighters..have ***ked off to the bar for lunch, leaving their truck, their chainsaws, the gate unlocked..and a fire burning and distributing smoke and embers all over the houses and gardens downwind ( like ours ) .. So..I phone the local town hall ( which is about 800 metres away ) to tell them to send the local municipal policeman and to notify the fire service.. The young clown who answers the phone at the town hall tells me "don't worry, the company must know what they are doing, it doesn't' matter that they have no authorisation to be burning"..and " that no-one has ever heard of fires getting out of hand or houses catching fire in February". I told him that the fire service would be pleased to hear that, nay they'd be amazed, as two years ago a house around 150 metres away burned down within 30 minutes in the month of February..and that he was an eejit and that he was talking s**te..The young lad was quite offended.. When the local policeman did show up..an hour or so later, it was his lunch time, although he was there when I phoned ( after the "workers " had returned from whichever bar they were having their lunch in ) , he made them scrape up the fire with their "bobcat" ( a kind of small JCBish type machine ) and they loaded it ( the piles of leaves and branches on fire ) into a small skip..and then drove away, spreading burning embers in their wake..presumably all the way back to their depot..which is about 5 kms away down country roads with high banks and plenty of combustible hedges etc. The next day they returned , this time with a machine to shred the branches and leaves into chips .. Obviously they should have had that machine on site the first day..But they didn't..so they lit a fire..despite the risks, despite the winds, despite knowing it was illegal..and then they left it alone , burning unsupervised, for over an hour..Why? Because it they had taken the branches etc to the local council depot ( as they are supposed to ) they would have to pay €6.00 per cubic metre..so rather than pay €150.00 ..for unsquashed vegetation, or squash it and pay maybe €30.00 total..or shred it ( might have cost them €5.00 for the petrol for the shredder ) and be able to resell it as "mulch". So..to save a pittance..( cutting the tree down and clearing the patch would net them around €1500.00..I know this because I have mates who own the largest tree surgery business in the area ) ..they did it the cheap, easy, risky way..and anyone in the area who had washing out gets to wash it again..and all the cars etc were covered in ash..nothing caught fire elsewhere..luckily.. Or maybe it is because "fires don't start in February". Inconsequential is waaaaaay too small a word for it compared to what has happened in OZ..but it shows..all it takes is a few ****wits..and there are very very many of them. :(( it would be nice to think that the various levels of govt ( national and local ) in Oz will sort this out and see that people get compensation..but I think they'll use Covid 19 as a kind of "look squirrel" and leave everyone to fend for themselves, or bury them in paperwork until they give up.

Don't know Tysew.. But :) .. as always ..the important things are ..what is the max sewing thickness ( not "lift" by lever or foot lift ) and what is the max sewing thread thickness..in the bobbin..Top thread can always be a size higher than the bobbin..but bobbin max is down to the clearance available..and how close does it sew to the edge ?

Indeed

You have my sympathies ( re the toothache ) toothache .. is one of the permanent 24/7/365 "side effects" ( one of them is nervous system damage ) of the "defoliant poisoning" that I suffer from , that I mentioned in passing in another thread..Bed time is when tiredness overwhelms the various aches and pains..

Not an anagram..that would be lsare..or elsar etc etc .. an acronym.. :)

You are more than welcome..we have all been in the fog.. at one time or another :)

And then there is "square motion"..which you are not going to get on the kind of machine that you want..yet..but which is better again. :)

There are plenty of Lasers that do not need internet connection.. For monograms you could use one ( diode laser ) that will work an area of 8 cm x 8cm Cost you less than $100.00 note it is laser with an S ..not a Z..it is an acronym. "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"

Where we lived before.. near St Tropez ( Var ).. fire breaks are mandatory..big wide ones in the forests and hills..govt or dept ( equivalent to state or shire or county ) takes care of them..IIRC 25 metres wide in the hills..some smaller at 10 metres..Brush is cleared regularly..Fires still break out ( you'll have seen them on TV ) and run for 10s of Kilometers because people throw away cig ends, light fires deliberately..and fire can jump a 25 metre break.. Private property ( we had 3 hectares ) fire break was mandatory 10 metres clear from boundary..if you don't do it..the local council takes care of it and sends you the bill..Mate of mine had the subcontracting gig for that..used to charge ( 20 years ago ) €1.00 per linear sq metre .Makes a nasty bill..so people take it seriously..Don't pay your bill? The council can send in the bailiffs..and they do .. I used to do our fire breaks..then we got a Shetland pony and some goats ..Major fires still break out every year, because "eejits" and "crims"..and the Canadairs fly all summer long..similar problems in California and OZ, similar trees..( eucalyptus and pines ) lots of wind, tinder dry summers .."eejits" and "crims"..the year that we left that area to move to here..fire broke out about 10 kms west of where we use to be, and ran for around 40 kms ( fire front about 10kms wide ) before it stopped jumping over the roads and the breaks, and they got it under control. Lot of my mates got burned out.. * It was able to run because a lot of the ( mainly Parisians with secondary homes ) secondary homeowners in the hills had not kept their fire breaks clean and clear. Keeping it clear with sprays from aircraft kills everything..I got contaminated with some of that stuff ( by a neighbour trying to "dispose" of his 200 litres or so, without paying the cost for safe disposal ) while we were living there..I have a lot of "interesting" health problems as a result..and will live at least 10 years less than I might have done otherwise..in considerable daily ( and nightly ) pain..You clear firebreaks and scrub with equipment, or animals , not chemicals.

re Singer 211 models. to unconfuse you.. http://www.industrialsewmachine.com/webdoc1/singer/211a.htm

You'll have to ask their ( the club's ) IT person..sounds like a "block" is in place. You might be able to get around it by looking for a "public VPN" site and then putting the link to the home page here manually ( typing it ) into the VPN "connect" box..That is of course of the club router lets you connect to VPNs ?

Maybe the club has just blocked ( for whatever reason ) the "hosting range"..can't think why they would..but.. Try searching LW.net on Google..and then tap the link on the phone..see if you can reach here that way..if not do you get any message or does it just "time out".. fred your library router and connection probably wasn't set up by the same IT person as toxo's club , or may not be using the same "block list" as toxo's club..probably not the same ISP either.

Blocked at your clubs router..which is what the club wi-fi uses . Possibly because this site has an adult section..and Mrs Whitehouse ( or one of her many acolytes ) has complained..After all, "leather".. Although given that you are in the UK , it could be that the club owner has not asked for the porn block to be removed by their ISP.

http://www.modimex.it/en/catalog/stones-rhinestones-pearls/rhinestones-with-holes-and-legs/ HTH :)

Hawaiian holidays don't just pay for themselves..can't be frittering it all away in grants can we possums. caution..post may contain sarc..any resemblance to politicians etc etc etc ..

PU = Polyurethane..( Vinyl ..not quite , but you get the picture ) Placcy ..Skai.. Which squashes a bit..so 8mm max thickness of material to be sewn..You could put 10mm of PU in..it would get squashed to 8mm and sew. Chrome tan also squashes a bit..so you could put 9mm or 10mm of Chrome tan in and it would squash to 8mm and sew. Veg tan..soft veg tan..10mm in squash down to 8mm ( maybe ) sew at 8mm..Higher density Veg Tan..8 mm in sew 8mm... How useful to you that is.. depends upon what the maximum total thickness that you are going to be sewing is ? Surprised at the 8mm..I would have thought it would do 10mm..given what it ( they are ) is a clone of. Belts ? How many belts of 10mm thickness do you want to make..? Crocs in the Kentish marshes ? Bags..get your micrometer out and measure the max thickness of some of your bags ( where the straps are etc ) is 8mm enough to be comfortable.. I still say..take some leather ( some "sandwiches" ) 8mm total and 10mm total, and maybe even 12mm total..and sit down at the machines and sew them..You'll know by the feel of the machine if it is over it's limits..

Lift is what you can get under the foot...doesn't necessarily mean that it can sew through it..I'd say as Brian..sewing capacity on both will be 10mm in veg tan..textiles squash down..machine spec ( lift and sewing thickness ) tends to be talking about textile thickness, even on leather machines ( makes the figures sound better )..veg tan doesn't squash down much, if at all..I'd not put any leather under there that is thicker than 12 /13mm maximum..Best thing is to go test it ..take some different thickness leather "sandwiches" with you..including some dense leather.

Personally I'd rather have a speed reducer than an EPS.. What is the slowest that the motor will go ? re Global vs Typical ..possibly easier to get parts for Global, ( seem to be afew more dealers ) although parts should be the same.. Re castings difference ?..Better metal ? in what way ? They look like they are cast from the same mold..Probably in the same factory..Probably using the same metal..unless they have different crucibles( with different alloys in them ) for different badges.