scottishshoemaker

What exacty do you want to know?

It is usually horse hair, these are classed as military dress sporrans, military day sporrans are leather with regimental badge on front.

The balck n White hairy thing is a sporran, and yeh a man purse but I wouldnt say that to a scotsmans face. In my sporran I keep what most scots keep in their sporran. Wallet and hipflask(good malt).

Thanks for the great comments and punker points, yup they are original docs, still available in the uk.

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After wearing "Docs" with my kilt for a while now, I thought it was time to make a sporran to go with them. Not one for Timberland/Cat boots. This has been brewing in my head for a while then I purchased a shed full of leather and half a skin of oxblood leather was amongst the lot. I put one boot in the picture just to let see you see the colour match.

Hi Danilo, and welcome to a great forum.

Don't know if this what your looking for? http://www.thequartermastergeneral.com

Ray I have done one qiute recently . Took a piece of 3mm oak bark shoulder, soaked in a bath over night, placed round sword hand stitched then boned for all my life. Boneing squeezes out excess leather and give the leather its strength and shine, if you want a dark colour don't use oxalic acid, if you want it lighter use acid. You can always use atest piece to see what colour you get when finished. Hope it helps. Sorry also used a piece of orthoside to protect sword from water.

Just for you Kate a group of Highlanders before the charge!!

Hi from Scotland Steve and welcome to a great forum,

No basically I finish them like any other footwear. Ink then burnish.

You're correct it was called straight lasted. But as these guys are wearing them most weekends they didn't like the look of straight lasted.

been looking for a font for my work and phamplets, great web site and if possible can you give details to unzip in xp. thanxs

Ok here goes my first attempt of posting a pic. This is a pair of Jacobite shoes made for a mate Be gentle.

What a good looking machine UKRay, I have a 29k58 that was left in a farm yard next too the milking shed you can imagine the state it was in. I used Jizer to clean it up and stripped it all down and got a mate of a mate to sand blast the treadle base then repainted it all, minus the workings. for bobbins you'lle be looking for the small size as the large one is for the 29k71 long arm patcher. Try Siserve Ltd, 37 Kenilworth Drive, Oadby, LEICESTER LE2 5LT U.K.Tel: +44 (0)116 271 7152. thats where I get all my parts and great service, just ask for Neil and tell him George from Perth told you.

Hi and welcome to a great forum. If its suede you want ive got red, lilac and sandy colours if there any good to you. Don't feel guilty just ask and well help as much as we can, some one once helped us.

I know this may be a pain! Why not drill small holes at even spaces and stitch thru the leather and wood to give a different design? Or get your hands on a thin strip of brass and bend it round the lip, inside and out. Just a thought, or you may get better suggestions.

Really nice work glad to see another shoemakers craft.

Have been working with the NHS for 19 years as orthopeadic shoemaker/orthotic technician, always loved the job that is until I joined a Jacobite historical group and started making my own gear, friends asked if I can make them the same. Its went a bit mad working 20 hours a day ;-). Just hoping to do it full time and give up working for somebody else. Interesting backgrounds everyone.

Hail the 29k58,also anowner/user. On the handle that raises the needle foot, to the right hand side there is a wing nut that is fixed to a height adjuster, H M L, when stitching thicker leather move this to H, and so on depending on material thickness, H should be able to stitch up to half inch thick. Also the leather belt can be moved between small wheel and large wheel, small wheel a top for heavy work, large wheel for light work, hope this helps.

Experience with sporrans, nice job, nice avater.

Very nice, similiar to ive made in the past for Jacobite renactors, Where are you based could maybe help rehardin shoe making!

Hi all the way from Scotland, only been on the forum a few days and learnt so much.

Yes the leather will wear less with eyelets but the look might not be the same to older style sporrans, all depends how you think it looks and the thickness of the leather where the hole is, if it is thin leather you could always add a thicker piece in between the lining and the finished leather and skive it round the edges. Just a thought. This what I do on button holes for Jacobite jackets as the guys use deer antler buttons which tend to rip into the leather.