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Any heavy leather users this machine just popped up on emab uk https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Singer-industrial-sewing-machine/193007396136?hash=item2cf0232528:g:X-oAAOSwTQxdNa7X apparently good for Harness work

Brilliant mike

The Oxford dictionary description of a artisan, does not have quite the same meaning but rather watered down to modern times artisan | Definition of artisan in English by Oxford Dictionaries https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/artisan noun. 1A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. 'street markets where local artisans display handwoven textiles, painted ceramics, and leather goods'

I thought it was in two parts the one fixed on the machine and the other part to the left and low down, not the chips out of the wheel on the machine, maybe i am wrong

I'm way past that and still consider myself young, maybe it was a spell checker that added old in his post

I am not trying to start a argument, just raise a point about hand sewn to machine sewn Hand sewing tend in many cases to be pleasing work by people doing it, and can look great Machine sewing can have perfect stitching all the time with a regular look, and commercially be a far cheaper process, with no negative points Maybe that can explain why hand sewing can be a selling point in that you did the hard work, but what benefit does the buyer get that's extra, probably a higher price and a slightly less perfect stitch line. I like hand stitching and don't sell anything, but i can understand why customers may well prefer price. The Far East manufacture many leather goods, and its true the leather is often but not always poor, but the factory finish of a lot of the leather gear is well made, neat sewing and cheap labour and in this throw away society probably last the attention span of many people who cannot see or want to understand the difference between high class leather and hand made, and what is hand made? , hand made is what happens in leather factories but normally not by one person

Thanks folks

Thanks, but not really knowing a croc or how it's measured, what does that equate to in say Square Foot

Just out interest how much is croc in Aus

Looking at the photo's it does not look like "bonded nylon" as the individual threads are showing loose all along both images

Does anyone have a Exploded view Singer 29K 53-58 models, I have the parts list and at present its all working fine, but would like to understand how it goes together just for interest

This is the answer by Fredk Perhaps signage saying how many years experience you have, something like 'Hand crafting leather since 2006' or ' . . . for over 14 years' ** ~ 'Every item carefully fully made and finished by hand by the craftsman himself' ~ 'Guaranteed made in Australia by a local expert craftsman of over 14 years experience' Maybe? Design and either get printed or print up yourself (computer printer?) some A5 sized handouts with photos of a few items and short concise explanations of how you see to quality. They will pay for themselves in the long term. I don't think you need to improve your work or change what you make (as a member on here, I reckon we can take your quality for granted, ) but you may need to increase your marketing and pushing yourself in the craft fair. Educate your potential customers to quality and what to look for

Looks to me that it might be a servo motor as the switch unit looks like having a digital display above the switch

We have organisations like this in the Uk , I don't know about yours but some in the uk have no professional qualifications to entry, give you the title master craftsman and some rules that may or maynot be adhered to, and the purpose of many is to collect fees and make the owner a lot of money, so basically as long as you are willing to pay you are welcome to join Others have very stiff exams to pass taking anything from about 3 years to maybe 7 years and demand quality with those not obeying the rules thrown out I understand that Germany has incredibly hard guids and you need to join one to trade

In the UK basically you can call yourself whatever you want unless it is a protective name buy the old guilds and institutions and even then its debatable if they can stop you apart from using their titles You can call yourself a accountant, builder, plumer , engineer, scientist, master craftsman, surveyor and so on but you cannot for instance cally yourself a RICS surveyor unless awarded that title by the institute of Royal institute of chartered surveyors

Depending on the lengths you could scarf them together and make those fly screens for doors where they hang down in strips and keep flying insects out, I seem to remember you have the odd fly in Australia or alternatively sell as leather straps to wrap around garden tools like spades and fork handles

Maybe a arts college would find a use for them, especially fashion design etc or crafts

If welded and it breaks at high revs it could send fragments all over the place and hurt you, obviously you would go slow at the start but just when you get confident its ok and speed up a bit???

I brought mine a 29K53 for £99 fist class condition and runs as smooth as a baby's bum, quite a few available at reasonable prices in the UK, but EBay prices for all Industrial sewing machines are silly over the top prices in most cases not far off new clone prices of same spec

Would there be trademark issues using all those brands names?

Whilst leather factories are likely to use their machines for many hours a day, I wonder how long most leather workers actually spend on a sewing machine at one time and how many minutes or hours its used in say a week, Bag makers i guess use them a lot more than most other leather work It seems strange hand cranking a sewing machine these days when all other tools seem to be run on rechargeable batteries, obviously, most they have mains power so silly not to use it, but I guess there are plenty who for whatever reason still hand crank and buy new machines.

From this just a one day do with what looks like more fashion focus https://worldleathercongress.com/media/ cannot see any exhibition etc

The best answer I can give is to join Nigel Armitage lessons on https://vimeo.com/ondemand/armitageleather he covers a massive amount of leather work lessons for about £3.00 per month and at present about 50 odd lessons in video to study for your £3 best value by a expert have a look and enjoy, he also has some videos for free on YouTube

Hi Brian You are more observant than i am, I can see it now and you are right, makes you wonder what improvements that might have been made to such a simple machine if production had continued, it sure makes a nice stitch

Watched this video of the SD28 in operation , a few times but still cannot see how it moves along the leather between stitches as cannot see any feed feet etc