Garyak

Easy to make and can’t make them fast enough.

Straight stitches, clean finish, and nice machine. You’re gonna go places, might already be there. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ve got this 68 ford Fairlane you’re more than welcome to display your skills on…… keep rockin it.

Corpus/Padre island here

Made a holster for my buddy outta some elephant. Not the color I ordered, but I think he’ll like it. Mag holders and a matching sheath up next.

John Fong has been around a long time and has a great selection, elephant down to bull frog. SFLC has been a good source, but they haven’t had anything new in forever, there’s Scott over at snapping turtle leather company. Guess what he sells. There’s sturgeon leather outta Russia via South America, and if you flash enough cash there’s some solo folks out there with good stuff that can Hook it up. All kinda pricy, but that’s the way it is nowadays….

I got this one in last week for my 145w204. Ordered it from sewing machines plus along with a techsew skiver and heat presses for shirts and hats. I went there looking for a speed reducer. Speed reducers and a good supply of brother scan n cuts I can’t find anywhere. The servo came from techsew in Canada is what I’m told. Servo got here in a week, still no skiver. Sewing machines plus, reliable 750w servo 199$. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amazon also has 1000w Consew servos.

My grandfather worked for Tandy from the early 40’s -60’s and then moved on to teach the craft at the Texas A&I university, now A&M. I was lucky enough to end up with some very unique and informative learning material. Some Tandy doesn’t have. I use some of my stuff when I’m instructing courses here at our local Tandys and folks tend to catch on fairly quickly. The older books to me are the way to learn. The way it was laid out before us. Learn the tradition and history of the craft, then take it your direction. If the older books can’t be found, the absolute best way to teach yourself is a sub to the Leather Crafter and saddlers journal. It’s worth it to order every back issue they have. Been getting it since it launched. Try it out.

Anytime I hit a wall, if the clutch pops I free up the jam then push the clutch re engagement button and turn the wheel away from me till it stops and clutch engages if it was set off. However, even after every run, especially super heavy I push same button and turn wheel back till it stops. Doing this brings back any time that was lost hitting a jam. Tighten it up before every run and she runs like a champ. If it wasn’t for a couple fellas from around here it would still be a mess. A lot going on with these rigs, but you can’t beat ‘em.

This is the best way I’ve found to match Cobra brown paint.

Cowboy Bob, you’re always ace when it comes to figuring things out. Thank you sir. It has to be what you lay out. The bottom feed is 180 degrees off from the top with No way of evening it out, unless that set screw spun on me. Im pretty sure you nailed. Again thanks sir. Cowboy for the win!

My 145w204 had been sitting since the 70’s when I purchased it a couple weeks ago. It had no rust, but was covered in decades of warehouse storage, spiders, and varnished oil. Machine wasn’t seized, but very close to it. Mainly old oil that had turned to glue. Got it tore down and polished everything clean and smooth. Stitched like a champ. Belt came in and I swapped out the old dry rotted one. Still worked, but not for long. So I put the new belt on exactly like the manual calls for, and I’ve done it 50 more times to be sure. Long story short, everything looks perfect, hooks to needle, runs smooth and quiet, my problem, the feed dogs will not keep time with the needle. At zero feed yes, they line up, start adding stitch length and forget about. Almost seems like something is 180 degrees off. I did not disassemble anything on the eccentrics, just clean and oil. I did check for loose bolts but all was good. So that’s the the gig, my feed dogs and needles won’t time, but everything else looks good. Any advice, hints, or means to a solution would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks everyone who commented. It was a lot of fun learning about feed eccentric and safety clutches. Well worth the nothing I paid for it.

Whatever it takes to better than the rest, and whatever I do is.