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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later as Kalinin Sewing Machines (ZIK) During the 1960's and 70's there was massive over-production of poor quality and outdated machines and the factory went into decline.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....

The cordwainer out at our rendezvous used hot melted wax, pour in, soak a bit, pour out. It didn't crack when the leather flexed 'a bit'.

I second the notion of putting a supporting layer for the marble. Since your top is 24", just rip a 3/4" sheet of plywood in half and use both pieces to back up the marble. More insurance can be had by using a strip or two of roofing felt under the marble. We used that on some 'heavy duty' lab tables and it both evened out the support and quieted things down a bit. I know, that makes a thick top....but I like it. God bless

Nothing speaks of poor workmanship like wrinkles in your duct tape!!

You can almost feel the wind blowing the flower blossoms.......

Two 'W's.........welcome and wow!! Your work sure flows. Nice coloring on the critters too. God bless

I mentioned the tight loop because folks who buy his hat bands at a show do not all have the same hat size. Hat bands must even change a bit in size as the hat ages on the head.

For anyone with a froggie fetish..... like my mother-in-law.... Search for this: '1890's Victorian interest in comical frogs trade card'. Some awesome stuff and inspiring for artists.

Snaps or stitches would limit the expensive hat band to one hat size, or close. The tongues are long enough to accommodate most hat sizes from the sixes to eights.... I'm thinking a tight loop and simple friction might be the solution. KISS..... but who knows. Pedro knows!

I thought that too, but his other stitching is much nicer. I'll check again to see if that is his logo stamp. God bless

Okay......how DOES that band stay tight? Is the loop that tight on the strap??

Neat Stewart. Like his eyes. God bless

I dropped a note to my friend in Holland after seeing this here. He replied: Thanks Mike, We are all save here in Holland only damage in the south province Limburg but nobody yet killed. Only in Germany and Belgium are people killed. But the water is coming towards Holland in the next days with the rivers Rijn and Maas. Keep in touch, Chris Op 16-7-2021 om 15:11 schreef Mike Rock: I checked the news in Europe and the movies of the flooding are pretty bad. Having had to fight to live through the Rapid City, SD flash flooding on 9 June 72, it really hits home.

Yup, called a 'tap off'......

Just a thought. Comic strip artists are masters at making things appear in motion. Some study of their illustrations and a bit of swivel knife work might be the ticket. Then some stamps for fill. God bless

I know that. She was asking for the machines. The splitter was illustrated with the first. I figured there are enough youtube movies she'd have gotten the point. Been making ropes since 1962 when we had the ranch in North Dakota. A hand on the ranch told a story once of making a hawser sized rope. The fellow he was making it for had a nice big truck. Rope maker tied of the far end to the towing ring and told the truck guy to put in in gear so it would move as the rope shortened. The rope machine was put on a large timber, propped up behind the timbers on a barn door.....big stuff, 4"x12" stuff. After walking all afternoon with the balls of twine, laying the rope, he started cranking, and cranking..... He was sure the truck was moving, the rope got tighter and tighter.....but he was sure the truck was moving. All of a sudden the barn door timber gave way, the machine and a days worth of work and twine shot out toward the truck and ended up in a heap. The fellow had put the truck in 'low, low' gear......It was my friends fault for not checking. He pulled out the undamaged rope machine and set the whole pile of twine on fire. He charged the guy for all the twines and made him a rope using a small tractor in high gear to pull against.

The top one is like mine...... it was $90 on ebay. The one down below is like my friends. You can see how the bent metal hooks are captured by the pieces of wood. He just used spikes and washers to make his. I'm sure there are youtube videos of these working.

Look on ebay for rope making machines. There are a few different approaches. I have a four strand cast iron gizmo made a hundred years ago. There are some nice ones made of wood and some steel hooks that work great. A friend made one of the wooden ones and used some spikes, bent up, for the hooks.