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A full size Admiralty navy chart table would be a nice way to store them flat if you have any ship breakers near you, most have a good number of sturdy drawers

Here is a earlier post on a 467 fa 373 that may help you

This will answer your thread size https://www.tolindsewmach.com/thread-chart.html

I notice my wife's domestic Janome machine can use a twin needle adaptor, but only has a single bobbin This intrigues me, so can someone explain how the single bobbin works with two needle, thinking about it how does any zig zag bobbin work as the needle is never in the same position

Just interested in what the difference is between these two leather types of blade

You canot go far wrong making a visit to the Tandy store or looking at their UK site, they are not the best tools (if there is such a thing) but of reasonable quality and price, once you get experienced you may feel the need to update some of the tools to top end tools as your experience tells you where you need to improve. https://www.tandyleather.eu http://www.leprevo.co.uk/knives.htm is a good supplier but basically a crap web site Artesian leather is a good and frendly place and very helpful https://www.artisanleather.co.uk/leathercraft-starter-kits.html Abbeyengland.com wide selection of tools Ian Anderson and Nigel Armitage both have plenty of youtube help guides and Nigel has a £3.00 per month big subscription site that will teach you at present about 50 lessons at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/armitageleather/247495554 Quite a few UK members on this forum for more info

Man you have far more information than i will ever have on the subject, I just take a piece of veg tan leather, stick the flesh side to a piece of flat wood, Rub Jewelers rouge over the top surface and strop, does me.

https://shop.solentsew.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=sailrite+LSZ-1 used to sell them i see they still have spares, maybe worth a phone call

A old Singer Patcher is built for the job or even the new chinese tin copies at about £150 on EBAY

Agreed Harry I think Nigel Armitage has fantastic reviews of tools, in that he seems totally honest with the selected tools and not influenced by the name of the maker or price, but the usage of the tool

Nigel armitage is a expert with many video's on Youtube and also dow a great video course selection of about 50 videos with new ones most months but for this selection makes a £3.00 charge monthly but well worth the money see https://vimeo.com/ondemand/armitageleather/247495554

Some people talk about old knifes as a wonder tool, made by someone 20-50 maybe 100 years ago and holds its edge like no new tool ever can, but fail to see the improvements in steel every year to provide the sharpest long holding its edge modern steels The pictures above may well have been taken 50 years ago rather than this year, no sign of modern machinery that give that little bit extra in accuracy and repeatability that the new companies use I think to many companies live on their old reputations or a nice bit of fancy handle colouring or shape and charge silly money, the old ways are not always the best ways

I would suggest start with making the object something simple like say a wallet and then later move on to stamping, just one step at a time, you will soon be hooked line and sinker and find out what frustration really means when that staight line of stitching has a slight kink which only you can see

Hi Rockytry this one ABSprofile.curaprofile

Thanks Rocky but how do i get a backup out of cura the export does not appear to give anything out apart from the note i enclosed and the backup just seems to reinstall my profiles I feel a bit stupid asking but not obvious to me

Thanks for the reply Rocky I did try the same design with , PLA, Nylon, PETG and ABS and ABS came out the sharpest letters as above Not sure what you mean by angling the job at 45 degrees on the curry platform can you elaborate please Using heated bed and have Ironing turned on now with another test piece ,but whilst a small increase for the better still not right Agree printing letters down on glass would solve the problem, and also sanding which i have tried, i feel it should be able to do it right with settings 3printz ABS.curaprofile

Was that your wife Matt i met in the estate agents, who said she had just found the ideal new house and going to surprise you next week with the news, just thought you should know

Hi folks Using Fusion 360 Arial at 10mm height for a stamp using ABS and Cura 3 for slicing As you can see from the image the top of the letters is not level, I know I can file it smooth but is there a better cura setting to level it off

If you dont mind the stitching showing , you can use the stitching used by high end car makers around the steering wheel, very strong and neat design

In that market you are competing with other mainline workwear manufacturers like Dickies and so on and they are probably offering a decent work belt at much lower cost, I would suggest moving to a more discerning customer base in custom and standard dress belts No idea about selling in the USA but if your looking at a local area, in the UK you can pay local papers to include both adverts and also single page brochures with their papers, quite a cheap way to get your offers into many houses with a nice coloured A4/A5 brochure

Would it be three phase?

Years ago I guess the veg tan tanneries, thought the same about chrome leather, To me it's use the best material for the job, the one massive problem for shall we call it growing leather products, is the existing leather is generally quite low cost for chrome and not to bad for veg tan, so to grow leather at a better price i would guess will be quite hard The vegan family will always be here, but who knows if its just a fad or a long time thing, may be big this year and small in two years

Maybe a very thin layer of vaseline around the plug edge to stop the paint sticking to it, so when you remove the plug it does not pull away a small part of the new ;paint around the hole edge

Tandy site has lots of video's on tooling and probably the best place to start, this is a example

Yup your right i miss read it, it is vat inclusive Soooorrrry