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On most machines, the bracket system that you just posted a picture of, sits below ( outside of the pan, closer to the floor ) the pan, which usually has a hole in it ( mine has a plastic pan with a cut out right there ) for the activator rod to poke through and work the part on the machine base that lifts the presser foot ) ..The pan ( if it is the same system, as on the Singer 211 ) is just to catch the occasional oil drips, it isn't an oil bath with a litre or so of oil in it.. You say the two holes on the back have bolts in ? they look empty on the pic that you posted of the back of the machine..

There you go.. :) This thread edge guide for the front holes on various machines, should fit your machine.. and another one that might work ,if you have holes on the back in the same place as the Juki Lu 563.. .. https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/85343-suspended-edge-guide-for-juki-lu-563/

Gorgeous :)

Painting your walls and ceiling white will make it a lot brighter. If you don't want to paint the beams / joists and the floorboards that are making the ceiling, fix some sheet rock ( or other board ) up there maybe in between the beams / joists if you want to keep them visible ( they , beams / joists can be useful to hang things from later, mind your head when you do ) and paint it white. I know that you are just beginning, but that will make a huge difference..Kinda "gloomy" in there at the moment, even with the led strips, you want it to feel like somewhere that you want to be...then "decorate"..:)

Depends on the airbrush ( different tips, needles and nozzles / cones ) ..General guide to spraying backgrounds , which are like spraying solid colour or sunburst..Spray pressure between 1.5 and 2.2 bar max..spray in over lapping passes horizontally, spray from further back than you'd think, spray off the end of the work..Yes it uses more dye or pigment, but it avoids the build up at the turn point.. Always flush the airbrush thoroughly when you finish, do not put that off, it is way harder to clean later, and using solvents to clean it later will damage the toric joints that keep the needle and the paint cup separate from the rear body of the airbrush. Use a braided textile coated rubber air hose, they are much more flexible than the clear ones.. Get a dart board, play darts , the action is similar to the control that you need to airbrush well..If you are going to use "masking" use card ones, not tape, tape will leave residues.. HTH :) ps..some dyes and leather combinations will work better with a drop or two of "wetting agent" in the dye..but test first on scrap..always test on what would be the "top side"

Take a bow..and an encore :) you will be doing the other hand ? Very very nice..different..

I knew :)..the design of the bottle, the straps and especially the stitching, looks very good too. I posted re tineye in case it is useful to yourself or anyone else. btw..just noticed that you "hate dyeing"..get an airbrush, ( paasche VLS is great for dyeing ) and a cheap compressor,( or make a silent one from a fridge motor and a gas bottle or old fire extinguisher and a few parts ) then you won't hate it at all :)

Try tineye.com The image that you found is probably flat, black and white maybe , or colour, doesn't matter, go to tineye.com , follow their procedure, upload..the original will probably be in the results that they get back..

Yep.. that was one of my thoughts in a previous post.. "someone got out of bed on the wrong side".. But, given the way "reach" at facebook is "pay more" ( buy ads ) to reach "fewer and fewer", it won't be long before they do a "google" and integrate vertically like G do with things like amp..I can see facebook eventually offering a, "host your shop on facebook" for X per month, and for Y ( ad spend ) you get to be in W ( number of people's feeds) and we facebook ( with the integrated shopping cart ) will only take Z percentage of your sales. Sort of Etsy on steroids. In order to keep Wall st happy with ever increasing quarterly figures, the big dogs of the web are all looking to squeeze the last cent out of anyone..and to track everyone to sell the "ultra targeted ads " myth to advertisers..Yes they can target very precisely, but that involves breaking some laws, for the moment they are finding that even fines in the billions are worth the cost of doing business, but that may well change. PETA ( and similar "single issue groups" of all types, not just the leather is bad ones ) have large ad budgets, and very vocal celebrity endorsers in many cases. "Squeaky wheels"..will get the "oil / influence / policies"..especially if they can also get donations from the "hard of thinking" ( which never forget, is at least 50% of the population everywhere, the movie Idiocracy is fast looking like a prescient documentary coming true around us ) to pay for their "oil / influence / policies"..

That is what I understood, and even with shipping added ( and they are not lightweight parts ) that is a very good price for "unfindables"..

I agree with you absolutely re animals.. I grew up on a small farm ( when in Ireland ) and have always had animals around.PETA and many others , whilst starting out "well meaning" do not think things through at all.There was ( a few years ago ) a verified story which "leaked" from within PETA, which documented how many healthy animals that they had "rescued" were then killed by their vets, "to save them suffering". Curious, I'm wondering if the problem you ( and others ) are having with facebook might be down to the use of shoppify ? Could it be that facebook are trying to push their own system , if they have one ? Or if they are working on a system of "facebook shops" ? If it is "bots" responsible at facebook, I'm amazed that they have not picked up all the pages that have leather in their title, some members here have facebook pages, Instagram pages etc, instead of ( or in addition to ) websites, with the word "leather" extremely prominent ( and images of their leather products ) multiple times, on those pages.A "bot" system running a ( simplified description to demonstrate ) "if word leather is found suspend page issue notice , or flag for human review" ) would get all instances in under 24 hours.. Whereas if it is only "3rd party" shopping systems with "hooks" into facebook , that are being searched for in the "bot "algo" parameters"..it would explain why you and others are being told "no" when many tens of millions of pages are untouched and up with no problems ?

Leyland ? Sounds like that description could fit a Marina. :) ..or an Allegro..apart ( in both those cases ) from the "gawky beauty" bit. :)

Out of curiosity, i just ran a site search with Google of facebook for the term leather.. If you copy and paste into the Google search box this search string on the line below. site:facebook.com leather You get nearly 59 million results..Every one of the 1st page of results has the word "leather" in the descriptive text that is on their facebook page.. RockyAussie, you must have really got someone at facebook who got out of bed on the wrong side..!! The place is choka with people and companies selling leather, leather goods, and mentioning "leather" on their pages there..with pictures too!! If what you were told is "policy" there..they are applying it very very selectively..

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Now I know who to buy from if I need "impossible to find parts"..even with the shipping... :))

I think they both , Paul Hogan and ( can Barry Humphries count as one person ? ) based a lot of what they said, and how they said it.. on his style*.. I also appreciate them, all of them, enormously.. :))) *Read some of the books mentioned in the BBC link, I think you'll see what I mean..

Maybe someone switched tables ? Damaged the original ?.. I know a guy who has a cylinder arm Pfaff re-mounted on a flat bed table...only uses it to make shoes, and small bags..even so would be much easier to use with a cut out table..

Having numbers as a guide marked for the stitch length is an advantage when you get it working,. On the Singer 211 ( like mine ) the mechanism is the same..but..no numbers..just an arrow with two heads , one at each end of the line..plus letter a A about 3 cms further around from the "minus"..and a letter "E" 3 cms further around from the + ..No other marks..!! They ( Singer ) must have thought that everyone would have the time to "fart about" trying to get the thing into the same position as previously to get the same stitch length..or that the machine operators were phenomenally good at guessing where they had the adjustment set before.. That said..nice machines when you get them worked out. :)

Brian.. You probably know some of his work , but maybe didn't know the name.. Les Murray died on 29 April..IMO, and the opinions of very very many ,( including myself ) he was one of the world's best poets of the past 100 or 200 years, ( an Australian ) , who wrote with an "Australian voice". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48089957 Right up there with the greats ,along with Seamus Heaney ( who captured Irish life, in English , for us Irish ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney Enjoy.. :))) btw..I'm not at all religious, Les Murray was, very, it doesn't stop me appreciating his work..in the same way as I view the Sistine Chapel..magnificent.. edit..T'was not I who placed that green circle over to the left ( it just showed up )..But as an Irishman, I appreciate the choice of colour :) 2nd edit..Ah no..that green circle showing up for me ( apparently most of you see it all the time ? ) was because the Mozilla foundation ( who make Firefox ) just got around some of my code blocks ( security code I added ) temporarily..I just fixed it ..and no green circle..and no "loads of other" things on other sites ..which is as it should be..Stroppy message will be sent to Mozilla ..my browser, my computers, my security rules..now they are "frozen out"..

Worthy of Les Murray :) I'll "steal that" if I may..

Never had that happen on any machine, and I use some very thin, soft kid "glove" leather ( 0.3mm to 0.5mm ) sometimes, and close to the edges.

Sailright..the Trabant or Reliant Robin of industrial sewing machines..rattly, clanky, inaccurate, finished like a Chinese patcher...waaaay over priced. Aimed squarely at the "yachty market " those with more money than sense.

If you allow air to circulate ( don't need fans or forced air ) around your leather, you'll have no worries.. Don't wrap it in airproof things unless you are "casing" it.. Mould is a problem of humidity and relatively static air allowing fungi / mould to grow..

Splits ? No..they are pretty solid, they just don't have "finished smooth" face..and so don't get used much where they might show.. Yes, they do get used for "structural work" and then get covered by a finer finished leather..

While you are learning..splits are OK..When you can consistently produce accurate patterns, stitches, items, then you can move on..and you won't be put off doing something just in case you are not certain that you can get it right first time..Working on splits is like drawing on copier paper, lets you practice without worrying about making a mistake on hand made paper at $50.00 per sheet or more.. Don't forget the thrift shops..damaged or worn or holed .. leather garments can be disassembled to get the leather.. You can get Crocodilia, snake ( various ) and other exotics that way, just to practice sewing on..even get enough to make small items..