Garyak
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Every time I read one of your comments I come away a little smarter than I was a few minutes before…
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You’re leaning toward new, and a $1500 budget. Unless you’re a drivable distance from the machine you’re gonna buy, comes the first bang for your buck. $500 off the top for shipping, order it from a middleman (any place besides the main plug) they’re gonna grab their cut, they ain’t selling somebody else’s machines for free. 500$ shipping, middleman clip you for their fee ???. When it arrives if you ship, gonna slap you with a 75$ lift gate fee, if you let’em. You got about 800$ for a machine now. That’s estimated in your favor. Most bang for your buck is keeping you ear to the area you live in, stalk sales pages, and hit estate sales. Be patient and you can find the machine you want at a favorable price… again, if you ship, don’t let’em tell ya it’s 75$ to drop the machine you bought and they drove across country to your house in the street. I just laughed and hopped up in the truck and pushed the down button on the corded remote. Driver didn’t say a word, but he also took off before I could inspect my machine. It was all good tho.
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Singer 111G156 saved from landfill
Garyak replied to johnnysingerfan's topic in Leather Sewing Machines
Wait a minute there buddy! Nice job… I got my eBay steal of a deal for 175$. Sat for 30 years, and wasn’t froze up completely, the fly wheel would turn, but nothing else moved. It was full of brown recluse spiders and about 6-7 big egg sacks. Had a dead, dried up mouse down in the timing belt area for a bonus… didn’t bother me, with the help of a few fellas from this group, and some spray paint I got it better than new again. I was going to sell it, but once everything was right, no way I’d let it go. Nice score man. I dig the paint too, makes look like fast….. -
If your needle is set correctly and bobbin is feeding the right direction, tighten down on the presser foot. The project needs to maintain contact with the needle bed at all times. Not maintaining contact when the stitch is being made causes skipped stitches.
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Got some African bullfrog I whipped up a couple weeks ago. Think I got some cane toad here somewhere.
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Justification for buying a real Durkopp-Adler.
Garyak replied to leerling's topic in Leather Sewing Machines
That’s a decision I made as soon as I saw the 969, the second I’m in a position to do so, I’ll be getting one myself. My votes on Adler. -
Tried making something I’ve never made before, a watch band/strap. Gave me a good reason to bust out the blue edge kote.
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You need to slowly ease that stone into the knife, let it sharpen about 10 seconds, slowly ease it off…. But first, I’d take each adjustment on the machine, one at a time, play with them, look closely at what each does, then you should know exactly what needs to happen to get that stone as close to the blade as possible without it hitting. You’ll see sparks come from the spot it hits. Make sure it’s not up against the stone before doing this. Ease it, with the adjustments up against the blade, level it across the stone curve and blade curve. Like a glove.
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I have a techsew SK-4 skiver and I have no problem making paper thin leather even thinner. I’ve skived lace from Tandy’s I wanted thinner. Literally coiled it loosely on the floor and hit the pedal. Like a long spaghetti noodle it fed the whole spool in one run, perfectly, not bad spots or breaks. When I saw it could do that, It totally justified my reasoning for buying it. It’s all about having sharp bell knife and how you have it set, and depending on what your skiving, what foot you use makes a difference also.
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American leather works. Tanning kits. And Springfield leather co too I believe. Follow directions or it’ll be hard as a gator when it’s done. Thanks bud! I bought some of those prairie rattlers… had to glue them down repeatedly before they would take. Seem to be plentiful up there.
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Finally got me a rattlesnake. From Nevada of all places. Here I am in Deep South Texas surrounded by scrub brush, and can’t find a rattlesnake to save my life. The diamondbacks online have really gotten pricey, in 1996 they were 75$, now a decent skin is 200+. I’ve worked with every permitted skin on the planet, but rattlesnake is Handsdown the coolest I think.
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Using up years of scraps… ladies seem love these bags, so imma keep making em.
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Loosen your tension and flip the bobbin. Start from the beginning.
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Singer 111W155 Big loops underneath at slower speeds HELP
Garyak replied to cynthiab's topic in Leather Sewing Machines
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Singer 111w loops on bottom at slower speeds HELP!
Garyak replied to cynthiab's topic in How Do I Do That?
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Man brother, every time I’m carving leather there’s a lot of stamping going down too. So it’s all the same too me.
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I used my flow pen and a cheap water color brush with fiebings pro dyes and let the colors drip where they may on the frog sheath. It’s an airbrush without air. I didn’t feel like going thru a bunch of changes just to dye one sheath. Took the lazy way out. Dyed, Resist, antique, seal with the acrylic sheen of your choice. As far as rivets on a sheath, I can’t stand em. A couple maybe, but hardly. Only if it’s structural, or safety. Only reason I used them there, that’s a really funky shaped blade, sharp in a triangle shaped way so there’s a lot of welt running around the inside. I wanted to keep it tight so the blade only goes in one spot and not making new entrance and exits.
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Mr. Peanut and Kermit the frog both knew the risk, but they went there anyway..
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A buddy wanted a sheath to take on vacation. I didn’t know this till the day he was leaving. I had 5 hours, start to finish. Had to make the lace too. Wasn’t much dry time allowed for anything, but it got done and he left for Mexico to surf.
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Shotgun sling I finished up. I like this one.
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Switch to 17 system needles. 23 will fit the needle throat. 207/207 23. Using the HX needles was a big negative.
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Good stuff man. C.C. Texas here
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Progress on using up 35 years of scraps.
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I knew I’d do something with these scraps someday. Pushing 40 years later, but I kept my promise. Scrap purse. No plan or reason.
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Tank bib I’ve been working on using a canebrake skin. I like it. Don’t have a motorsycle tho.