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great idea !!!!

thanks i will check that out.

just thier catalog lol. i love a good catalog.

thank you And they have a free book!!!!

they are for the home machines 130/705 H LL 110/ 18 on the box. i can go up to the system 135 but haven't yet i saw they had some different shapes for the larger system and i will be doing that as i get the bugs worked out. I am shopping and researching on the thread exchange.

thank you Wiz i had hoped you would add a word it is a Schmetz leather needle, i believe it is a tri point needle. thank you for the tip!! i was taught to sew on a machine as a boy but that was a looooong time ago so have have forgotten most of what my mom taught me and it wasn't leather lol. Once i wet formed it to the stock they pretty much closed up.

here is my first try aside form the turkey tracks what do you think? the thread looks small for the hole but i haven't pounded it down. I used a shmetz 110/18 leather needle with tex 90 thread.

awesome work in both!!

i use a cotton buffing wheel to burnish the handles or as the pastor says a piece of canvas will work, clamp your knife blade in something and go to town like you would buffing a shoe.

i can go slow enough to place the needle in a crease and still out sew myself ten times over. An edge guide is on the list as well.

excellent!!!

that's about what i am getting also but it isn't as reliable at that thickness as i would like it yet. That thickness would be great i would have a lot more options. I'll be getting the longer needles next as you can in your photo that thickness is almost up to the taper of the needle, on mine if i go any thicker it sticks and raises the foot

Heck yea!!!

Seems it works pretty well if you use it in lighter leathers. i see it as a way to get a better machine by utilizing it within its abilities. Then maybe mine will collect some dust too. lol but i doubt if i get it dialed in to a certain task i will get rid of it.

thank you !!! i will .

beautiful bag and a ton o work there great colors!!

really nice tooling !!!

soon as possible i need something to sew today lol. I'm a lefty so i'll have to tweak it, hopefully i can make it for both hands if i can. Thank you for taking the time!!

Anybody have a pattern? If not i'm gonna be making one if i cant find one.

thank you for that info i did that today .

very cool machine!!!! where is your thread spool located.

yup belt sander !!!

after you glue it up then you have to compress it so it gets hard wet it like you would to wet form then compress it and let it dry before shaping and finishing. I sand it then burnish it with a polishing wheel. after that you put any sealer you like i make mine in sections then soak them and compress them in a vice between two pieces of wood. cut your slots to fit your tang use your tang to glue up your pieces in line to make two or three sections, take your glued and dried sections off your tang and then wet and compress them after they are dry then you can clean out the tang slots slide the sections on(glue them now) and the last step of putting on the hilt should compress those seams , shape, sand and burnish and seal.

I'm sorry i should have looked closer at your location and your product yes what you have is contact cement it will work perfectly! Thanks Pastor

that will be next i imagine , i have another order in for thread and the longer needles. Thank you i am sure i will be asking. i am lucky as i had all the polishing equipment to do the job, everything important polished to 1000 grit. even the floor plate which helped a bit on the turkey tracks, i think i will be making a longer floor plate and a new foot a little wider with smaller teeth.