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Looks to me that half way round you picked up a different chisel as the interval on the right seems larger than the left. Do you have two sets of chisels from two different makers

If you want some new thoughts on stamps with extremely high quality then Sergey Neskromniy is your man, rather than the tired old stamps he has brought modern thinking designs especially with say basket weave seen here https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeatherStampsTools?page=2#items

The reason you cannot make tham in your own country is the cost of labour and your government You compare the cost of living between countries where as say in the UK the minimum wage per hour you must pay someoneis about £8.50 and the employer pays about 13% more to the government on top of this wage. In the Far East the hourly rate to live on a probably under £1 per hour, but at the same time housing and food are also that much cheaper When I operated on the North Sea and African Oil Barges in the 1970's the Americans got paid nearly double what a UK person got doing the same job Therefore the items with lots of manual imput are far cheaper to produce than America or Europe can manage Also the Far East believe far more on mass production in both quality and lesser quality items than the first world will not take the gamble on and pay little of the profit to the government so have far more money to invest in the most modern machenery The Buy made in the USA can be good and at the same time bad, good in that a percentage of US businesses make great products using high tech skills and equipment, whilst at the same time helps support the near dead companies who never invest and make things like the did 20-50 years ago and at the same time making them so cheap no modern facility can compete which is the future The world postage agreement is also the killer letting the Far East countries like China post goods around the world using the postal service with a silly low price to posters and free delivery to the states and europe meaning we are flooded with free postage items from China and Honk Kong plus others. we sellers ppay the full price for postage in our own countries whilst they pay next to nothing great idea

You can never use to much bubble wrap especially the larger bubble ones, cheap and clean and vibration free

I don't give a damn what a tool looks like but do care about how it performs and nothing wrong with beech handles Has anyone analyzed the old so called excellent steel used on old leather goods and proven they are better than the 2020 steels, I personally believe its just old wives tales, I cannot think of anything that was better made in say the 1900-2000 than today

That is excellent and shows the skills that made it What part of the UK did you come from, lots of UK people on this forum

Unfortunately there is no official description of genuine leather, its just a all encompassing term for anything that has at least some leather in it Leather can be made from fish skin to elephants skin and tanned in about half a dozen ways and all referred to genuine leather, you can also cut the top layer off (the best area) for making leather, and then use the whats left with a PU coating and patterning as split leather again called genuine leather If your straps are from China and at low price then more than likely made from split leather just like 90% of the cheap belts and wallets that country are well known for making Litchi seems to be the far eastern name for Lychee the small pimpled fruit popular as deserts

Perhaps a example of what your trying to do may get more answers Tandy is rather expensive for Leather, worth looking around in Canada for other suppliers, bound to be some in the major cities, Europe is awash with leather but i guess delivery to canada would make it uneconomical Good Luck

There may be a simple answer in that Hermes uses two different methods of tanning depending on the item they are making

Have a look at jo's video's on this youtube link, she covers most of what beginners need to make https://www.youtube.com/c/JHLeather/videos

I would try to contact Sergey Neskromniy who designs a lot of stamps for embossing, I presume he uses modern CAD machines and at least worth talking to, he advertises on this forum and also on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/uk/people/sergeyneskromniy

That's the same in the UK, Rifle (no auto's) or Shotgun OK (both about 3-6 month Police check before you get licence and guns always locked in safe when not in use). No pistols, Even the majority of the police do not carry guns, though some do in sensitive area's like Airports and a few patrol cars have guns locked in a safe in the boot of the car for firearm response incidents Allowed to carry 2.5 inch blade with reason ( tools of trade etc) like Canada but no flick knives etc

What are you willing to do for free in return

Have a look at this chart it matches all combinations of needle size to thread size https://www.tolindsewmach.com/thread-chart.html

I did look at doing rug repairs a few years ago, but it did not seem possible to make money, though obviously some people must do A look on Google UK and there are lots of sub £50 rugs a few more at £70-80 and a limited number at over £100, fair to imagine there are some at far greater prices but not advertising via google From looking at some local ads it appears you are expected to visit the stables to pick up the rugs, wash them prior to repair and then after repair deliver them back Even at a minimum UK wage of about £8.50 per hour (legal requirement) I could not see any way to make it work, and in a 20-30 mile catchment area the milage time adds up yet alone washing and repair plus materials

Its not that long ago in the UK that nearly every town had a couple or more outlets selling white goods (washing machines, Fridges, Cookers etc) now they have mostly disappeared to the big online shops It was the same with well known department stores, just a few left in city's and even Marks and Spencer have disappeared from the towns, where often they were the largest clothing retailer on the high street, and changed into top end food outlets on the out of town estates Our town centres are now just full of Charity shops and even the betting shops are closing down Retail Shops are suffering all around the UK and all seem to be dragged to move to online where they can make a profit

Afraid you just have to look at the competition who work from one or two places The Tandy model was great when wages were low and lots of home buyers, Now the whole market has changed with the internet with prices dropping from all around the world, you just cannot having store holding large quantities of slow moving stock sitting on shelves when you can run one major warehouse selling on the internet You save wages, Rent, Rates and transport logistics and money tied up in stock Fair bet that in three-five years time Tandy will have just a couple of stores in main cities and closed all the rest for e-commerce, and the same with most of your town shops who cannot compete with the internet warehouses selling to the whole country with little staff and you paying the delivery costs

Me i just use Effax Balm it works well into the leather, seems to waterproof ok and when applied on plain veg tan it hardly darkens the leather at all, far less than nfo

Company details on this link, give them a ring and photo of where it was in the machine to avoid confusion https://artisansew.com/leatherstitchingmachine.html

In the UK it now seems cash is like offering corvid-19 to the seller, so most sales are by credit/ debit card, easier for most transactions but vast profits for Barclaycard, visa and the rest with their share of every transaction, and the Banks can now say there is no demand for coin's and stop holding them, close down and go all electronic with cash machines Yet at the same time people in supermarkets paw through packs of food wrapped in film or cardboards to get the best of the product think cold processed meats in sealed packages and that's safe Confused

Would it not be cheaper to return it to a local main dealer to repair or machine mechanic depending whats available in your country, after all a stuck butchered screw in not a uncommon item for sewing mechanics Every trained mechanic in a decent garage will be expert in removing broken studs from car engines

I have no logic for this but would think either Austrian or Swiss, just a gut feeling also post 1850

I doubt it would be considered a weapon in the UK if it was used as intended filled with money and you did not have another pocket full of change as well. never heard of a walking stick being used to defend yourself, being classed as a weapon, but probably more effective than a cosh To use as a cosh would be very dangerous if hitting someone on the head as easily lead to a manslaughter or murder charge, as heads can be very thin and not absorb much unlike those pistol whipped cowboys ps on sale on Wish and etsy at £5.0 thought of buying or making one as a good way to carry small change, but my coshing or saping days are over with old age

This video may explain but i don't speak your language to understand what they are saying

Just as a matter of interest, what is the main problem in making new needles for the older machines, my own thoughts would be the cost of the dies to make them and run numbers, obviously the demand would be small, but some machines like the SD28 may merit a reasonable number of sales With the facebook full of small groups, I guess over time something like say a SD28 group could get together worldwide and afford to have some made for the group, and so on for other types of machine