Dwight

How about this? May God bless, Dwight

I use the vacuum bag to form the object . . . pull it out of the bag . . . put the bag and pump away . . . hang up the object to dry in the form I gave it. Really simple stuff. May God bless, Dwight

I was curious if it would take longer to do forming with a vacuum when the weather is wet and raining outside? Two words . . . it doesn't. . . . unless of course you are outdoors . . . then it might. When it is below zero . . . the formed leather dries out faster . . . simply because the moisture in it does not have to compete with humidity . . . it just jumps out. That is the only feature I've ever noticed . . . and that's kind like the question of how bald are your tires at 150 thousand miles . . . vs 155 thousand miles. Seriously . . . don't give it a thought. May God bless, Dwight

The other thing you might do . . . it works for browns . . . hit it with a light coat of neatsfoot oil . . . if you have not put a finish on the leather. I had one heck of a time especially with saddle tan . . . blotchy . . . streaky . . . dark & light. Began doing a coat of NFO on every saddle tan project . . . NO MORE troubles. Now I use it on just about everything. May God bless, Dwight

Oh well . . . it was gone anyway . . . someone got it before I could really get a full chance at it. May God bless, Dwight

Thanks, Chuck . . . that's interesting . . . just wish I knew what the throat depth is . . . May God bless, Dwight

Thanks Garyak . . . that looks like quite a machine. May God bless, Dwight

Thanks, Wiz . . . May God bless, Dwight

Thanks everyone . . . I mostly thought about it because I've got a leather jacket . . . and a whole batch of patches I want to put on it. Locally . . . patches are 12 bucks pop . . . and my thought was if it wasn't too awful much of a project . . . I could get one . . . do my patching for the cost of the patches I need done . . . and would wind up with another sewing machine. Looks like it just ain''t gonna happen. May God bless, Dwight

OK . . . after watching a half dozen videos . . . and realizing there is no way I can pop 3 grand for a patcher . . . I've been very much tempted to grab onto one of these 150 dollar Chinkomatic hand operated patchers. My questions are DO ANY OF YOU HAVE ONE??? HOW RELIABLE IS IT?? FROM WHICH SUPPLIER DID YOU GET IT? I'm sure some are better than others . . . they surely didn't all come off the same hand made forgings . . . Thanks to all . . . May God bless, Dwight

You are more than welcome, Randy . . . have fun with it . . . I did a couple of intricate radio boxes last spring and summer . . . would have been some kinda tough without the vacuum help. May God bless, Dwight

Lookin good . . . I tossed the idea of elastic . . . my buddy and I both wear solid leather suspenders. Don't have a problem once that "fit" size is found. May God bless, Dwight

I didn't have any problem at all with the video . . . I just never have caught the knack of double sided tape . . . it's on me . . . inside. . . outside . . . paper won't come off . . . arrrrggghhhhhhh. I use contact cement . . . put on with a plumber's brush . . . sometimes it takes two coats . . . one fills the pores then the other coat does the stickin' stuff. Just the way I do it . . . not that it is any better . . . just how I learned. May God bless, Dwight

Well . . . Fredk . . . I'm not sure what occurred . . . and why . . . But I've never . . . NEVER . . . had anything but good service from Tippmann . . . I take my machine to them whenever I have something I cannot fix . . . or we cannot fix over the phone. PM me your full name . . . and your city . . . I know a guy up there (if he has not moved on) . . . and I'll be more than happy to try and contact him on your behalf. Seriously . . . they have bent over backwards . . . even stopped their "production" line . . . just to take care of an age old customer of theirs . . . me. Lemme know . . . I'll take a whack at it for you. May God bless, Dwight

And I forgot . . . when you do that . . . take a piece of 9/10 oz and squeeze it up about 1/8 of an inch above two pieces of a board . . . like a hamburger slipping out the side of a bun. Take the corners off both sides of that piece of leather first . . . make the piece about a foot or so long. Then take your jeweler's rouge . . . and get a really good coat on the leather . . . start stroking your beveler backwards from the way you normally use it. That will both polish the heck out of the rounded tool you just made . . . and will sharpen it right good and sharp. I sharpen all of mine on such a rig. May God bless, Dwight

I like it . . . looks good I need me a knife like that . . . May God bless, Dwight

OR . . . you can take the thing from Tandy . . . a small chainsaw file . . . and make a rounded one. May God bless, Dwight

Don't get me wrong . . . I am interested in the final answer . . . but let me ask you a question . . . Why did you decide you need this attachment . . . why do you need to use it??? My reason for asking is simple . . . I do the same things . . . holster, belts, knife sheaths . . . etc. I put the flat table attachment on my machine . . . leave it on all the time. It works great for me in every thing I do. Just finished up two cowboy buscadero holster belts and one holster . . . did it without the attachment. Lemme know . . . I'm really curious. May God bless, Dwight

I'm no chap expert . . . but the few I've done were straight cut . . . and worked well May God bless, Dwight

I have used OTB for the past 25 years on and off . . . as needed. I once had fairly high esteem for Weaver's as well . . . and that went out the window about a year ago . . . I'll buy from someone else if there is any possibility . . . the last leather I got from them should have been returned to the cow . . . Their staff used to be warm, helpful, happy . . . my last trip there was anything but . . . May God bless, Dwight

I personally found it and Etsy to be well stocked with folks who were 110% competitive with every one else . . . and for the most part . . . seemed to be folks I did not want to deal with. Every now and then I'll inadvertently wind up there . . . mostly when I'm looking for an image . . . and they'll let me have it for only $29.95 . . . or if I sign up and agree to a monthly charge of $9.95 with a maximum of 30 images per month. I steer clear . . . and I think you made a really good decision May God bless, Dwight

Hobby Lobby . . . and hardware stores . . . sell stencils . . . and of course . . . there are all sorts of fonts on programs like Word . . . As previously mentioned . . . you can produce those letters to the size you want . . . Tape them down over your leather belt . . . and use a razor knife to just cut the paper . . . and go about 1/16 of an inch into your leather. A swivel knife going into that slot will give you a nice valley . . . and you can then get acrylic paints . . . paint it up to the edge of that little valley . . . and you are good to go. May God bless, Dwight

Whenever the subject of fanning comes up . . . I always remember the old Wyatt Erp (Hugh O'Brien) segment where Erp calls out a cowboy . . . and I disrecall exactly the details . . . But the guy was up on the boardwalk . . . Erp was in the street . . . carrying that Buntline of his . . . the dude whipped out his pistol and fanned it IIRC . . . 4 times before Erp got off a shot. Erp shot once . . . dropped the cowboy. And they were something like 12 ft apart in the scene. As small as O'Brien was . . . it was a bit illogical to think the dude could miss 4 times at that range . . . But then again . . . it was TV . . . not the History Channel. May God bless, Dwight