MikeRock

A friend of mine just called and asked about the Singer 29UFA, SN 12,426,277. 1894. A lady wanted $900...... a tad pricey for sure. What's it really worth? A couple hundred? It sat in a shed and rusted up, she freed it up.

Rahere, Second page looked like it was going to work, then said, "Unavailable"......rats!! I'd sure like a look as well. I have a bellows like that, 4' long. A few mouse chews to repair. It came out of the blacksmith shop on the east end of Main Street in Mt. Horeb, WI, in 1974. I helped an antique dealer clean out the shop. Fun times for a soon to be ABANA member, Lumpkin, GA. I brought home the bellows and cone in a 1967 VW Beetle with the back folded down. The cone mandrel in the front seat made the car rather lopsided going down the road.

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Wow.. looks like Kirk Douglas in Man from Snowy River.....

Hell, you can work by lantern light, and if sewing gets boring you can use the cream separator (thing with the three support arms) :))

Neat! How much of a PITA is it to unsnap and resnap the retaining strap all the time? Would the drill be firmly held without the strap? Retention straps are my pet peeve, so no offense. That is a VERY cool holster!! Thanks for sharing. God bless.

Now THAT is funny! God bless

Ed, Thanks for that tip. God bless

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Call Eli........he has them. I just bought several.

Kyle, Mine is a blue gun, made by or at least inscribed, "ARMINUS-BY H.WEIHRAUCH/MADE IN GERMANY". It is the .357 as well but measures within a few thousandths of my Uberti SAA .45 Colt. I made the holsters with the blue gun and love them, the fit is perfect. So, yes, they are the right size. God bless Mike

My old boss used to say, "Paint it blue and make it smell like lemons and a man WILL buy it!" I prove him right several times a year and get a chuckle out of it.

Southwest of Madison, raise Mulefoot piggies. Lots of good pigskin running around.

Somewhere here in the 'stuff' is a little pliers/punch combination tool for punching the holes in round belting, very specific to that. It has a pliers gizmo for bending the wire clip to final shape too. Got it off fleabay with a bunch of leather tools out of an old shop. I used it once making up round belting for my old sock knitting machine bobbin winder and it worked great.

I've skinned a few.... that is not acceptable.

I wonder if there is a water or solvent soluble ink that would completely clean off after tooling? Neat idea, transferring ink via a waxed paper.

Like I said before, brings back great memories......THANK YOU!! God bless

I sure like it. Like all your work, it reminds me of some of the calendar paintings of small town America fifty years back. Nice!

Welcome! Do you know of any good BSA Gold Star parts bikes? Mike

Call Dana Gleason as Mystery Ranch, Bozeman, MT. Best in the west and everywhere else.

They are a beast. I have made replacement parts for the bobbins and other odds and ends. The Amish shop I learned a lot at had two of them, powered by air motors. The young guy told me that Amish machines sewed to beat Hell! He had a wooden guide setup for doing tugs and ran the machines flat out when he could. Building didn't quite shake, but it was close. Nicest stitch you want to see. Hot wax, propane flame. The girls there used them for collar work, the guys did harness work. They had the setup to do hidden stitches, in the slit made by the old Gomph hand tools. They hooked me on Gomph and HF Osborne. Old cast iron crupper stuffers and six station crupper molds.....fun times.

Have you considered cutting on the radius, like a conic section? The hip area isn't cylindrical and a belt that wide won't stretch into a conic shape. Just a thought. My first belt was for tree work in the mid sixties and I learned fast that a cylinder was damned uncomfortable sixty feet up. God bless Oh....NICE work!!

Is there a similar tutorial for Mexican Loop holsters? Or is there a full sized drawing for them, like the ones in the California Slim Jim tutorial? God bless

Interesting. Are the jaws spring loaded in the normally closed position, and depressing the foot pedal opens the jaws? God bless

Tom, Thank you for passing this on. Great information from the horses mouth, so to speak. You should pin this post. God bless, Mike