MikeRock

Anything will do, apple, orange, you get the idea. If you want to have fun with a potato, rub the cut surface on American paper money. Or use spray starch. The little pen they use in stores to detect counterfeit money is nothing more than an iodine pen. US paper money does not contain starch, so the iodine won't react. If there is starch anywhere the iodine reacts with it and turns almost black. Got this from high school chemistry class.......a LONG time ago. I daydreamed of slyly spraying cash registers with spray starch when in Vegas once. It would cause a bloody panic!! Enjoy! God bless

If you look at the glass shelves on an old medicine cabinet you'll find the rounded edge for a slicker. Cut a 4" piece or so, with a glass cutter, and round the cut corner first on a bench grinder, or a belt sander and you are good to go. You can mount it in a wooden block of you wish. I just left it. Cool thing is you can make narrow ones, like 1" or 2". Merry CHRISTmas to all.

If you stick the punch in a potato and heat the threads to orange quickly a few or three times, just the threads will soften and no hardening and tempering is needed.

Bruce, Thank you for that. I had the same problem and recut the threads, a real pain. Merry CHRISTmas to all. Mike and Valerie

Check out Bruce Johnson, who is on this site. He sells used tools of high quality. God bless Merry CHRISTmas to all

Dwight, I agree... the other difficulty with a slide hammer is some loss in the ability to turn and maneuver the business end of the tool. The subtle little twists and turns when edging or other continuous actions gets difficult if the knurled portion of the tool handle is covered with the hollow end of the slide hammer rod.

I like the idea Sanch has, make a slide hammer out of it. Slip over tool, line up and hammer. Two or three different weight hammers.

Well, he'd better shake a leg.....

Nose to nose with Frosty! Love it. God bless

Chuck, Sure enough, the same exact thing. Now I have to go and make a darned wallet Old one I got in 1976. God bless

I can hear a few of the Amish guys who helped me sew,,,,,, 'Michael.......SLOW DOWN'... That was on a Union Lockstitch that would go 200 miles an hour...... Chester threatened to turn the air motor valve almost off.... actually he did and slowed the machine until I learned to stitch slowly. Helped immensely on the harness work they were letting me do. SLOW DOWN....... Keep your eye on the line about three stitches ahead. HAVE A LINE was the other thing they harped on...an awl scratch, a stitch groove, something to follow. God bless

Well, rats!! "Not for use on natural veg-tanned leather." Per Tandy. Not sure if I have anything else here.....

Solid Concepts, in Michigan, could print these.

Nice! Are those two thatched roof buildings in the left background in the first and second photos?

Patience and accuracy. Key to most things. That was 'almost' the answer I expected, but I thought maybe another guideline scratched in every eight or ten rows, just as a micro check on straightness. Darned fine job!! God beless

Randy, How many guide lines did you use for the basket weave? God bless

Leather Crafters has a large inventory of back issues. Hell, they even have center folds too!!

https://unitedleather.com/products/crazy-horse They claim it is veg tanned. Out of California, so it could be from anywhere. The other source is in Greece, they ship worldwide.

Vegetable tanned Crazy Horse Style Leather https://crazyhorsecraft.com › pages › vegetable-tanned-crazy-horse-leather Most craftsmen use chrome tanned Crazy Horse type leathers in their work, which are much cheaper and not as high quality as vegetable tanned varieties. However, we wanted to offer our customers something exceptional and extraordinary and requested vegetable tanned leather to be specially made in the Crazy Horse style.

Duck duck go..Looks like a fine machine..... German made, for sale used: 15 Ton, "Sandt", clicker press, model ST-91, S/N: 49480, German made, 1-1/2" stroke, adjustable table height 9" approx., 4-post, 20" x 20" floating head, bed is 22" x 60", 3 ton weight., Price: $3,500 USD Ref: 2035 Another one on ebay......https://www.ebay.com/itm/334203143280?hash=item4dd00f4470:g:vZYAAOSwqvdfpCS3 they are asking $5,225 for this one.

I don't know either, but they mentioned 'industrial'. I see spell check doesn't like 'awl' and changed it to 'all'.....

Google...... Singer had a factory in Podolsk, Russia, first machine off the line in 1905.... for what it's worth. No mention of heavy all and hook machines. They do mention 'industrial'. "In 1931 for the first time the factory began producing industrial models and also sewing machine needles. Production in 1931 was around 520,000 machines with 11,000 workers. After WW11 the Podolsk factory was re-equipped with machinery taken as reparations from the former Singer factory in Wittenberge. The older designs that Podolsk had been producing were updated at that time using details of the later Singer features taken from Wittenberge. The factory was renamed Podolsk Engineering Plant (PMZ), and then later as Kalinin Sewing Machines (ZIK) During the 1960's and 70's there was massive over-production of poor quality and outdated machines and the factory went into decline. In 1994 with the changing political situation in Russia, the plant was purchased by Semi-Tech, which also owned the Singer brand, so the Podolsk factory was once again renamed as Singer. The factory was finally closed around 2000. In 2011 the city of Podolsk celebrated the 230th anniversary of the town by erecting a full size bronze sculpture of a Singer sewing machine and treadle table mounted on a red granite pedestal in front of the local museum."

Tom, Those were European styles, until after WWII and American style for firearms much earlier. My Winchester High Walls have that on all of them. I've been looking casually for a long time and missed one set at a sale.......turned my back and the darned things sold.... Hoping Constabulary might know of a set. God bless all.

Constabulary or other European machine restorers, I am trying to find a set of number stamps like the ones shown on the current Durkopp 17 thread. Size not so important, from 1/8" to 1/4" or thereabouts. God bless, Mike

It looks like you have a lot of fun making art..........as it should be. God bless....