Orphan

I'm with the others on this, good "guy" good service. My go to source for stingray.

I didn't make my pony because I suck at wood working if it doesn't involve an axe but if yours works for you then all I can say is hell yeah. That line of chisels from SFL you're talking about are actually great. I've got a couple of them and they just work. No frills, no fancy names, just clean cuts every time. Plus if you somehow destroy one you spend less than 10 bucks and get a new one. I just wish they had english point belt/strap chisels, the osborns are nice but christ the price. If you just need to talk drop me a pm, one vet to another brother.

I'd recommend a stitching pony to hold your work while you sew. They don't cost a lot and personally saved my sanity more than once. Practice with that French edger a bit before you put it on your work, they take a bit of work to get to where you cut nice even edges with them. Also I don't see any type of glue in that list. A good contact cement will make your life easier when it comes time to line everything up and start stitching. Personally I use Barge but there are so many good cements out there that the list would be long.

Thanks Art that's good info for me. No I don't need to be able to do the full 32oz that it's able to do, supposedly, but right now if it will do what I'm needing it's on special at Springfield for less then either the cobra 18 or the highlead 618. It's not a whole lot less but pennies are pennies and fifty bucks is fifty bucks, know what I mean?

http://springfieldleather.com/43810/Sewing%2CMachine%2CCobra%2CClass20/ This is the machine I've been looking at Art, it's basically the 18 but is supposed to do .5" of veg tanned rather than 3/8th's. I looked at lighter machines but was figuring that this would still let me sew some of my sheaths. They tend to be in the 20 to 24oz range and from what I can see this should handle that. I actually looked at the 227r but would prefer a flatbed for now. I should have refined my question I think. I should have ask if this will do pretty much everything below what I would need a class 4 for? Will it handle 3 layers of 7-8oz veg tan? Will it handle 2 layers 0f 10oz for a gun belt? My apologies for not being that clear in the original post. I plead fuzzed brain. It was late and I'd been up a long time when I posted that lol. Thanks again folks.

Hey all. I've finally got enough business to justify a sewing machine and wondered if anyone had any time on a Cobra 20. I'm making mostly belts and wallets, a set of chaps here and there and a few holsters. I know this machine won't really work for holsters but I make few enough of them I can still hand sew those. The main question is, do I go with the 20 rather than a 3 or 4 since most of my work is lighter? My understanding of the class 3 and 4 is they have issues on light weight leather with lighter threads. I'm figuring that the 20 will do 90% of what I need done until, if, my holster work gets to the point where a 441 clone will be needed on a normal basis. Thanks in advance.