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105 sheaths x 20.00 profit per = $2100. More than the cost of a Cowboy Outlaw or CB2500. If you never do another for-profit order, you've propelled your hobby leaps and bounds forward. I'd be on that deal in a heartbeat.

Aesthetics aside, If it hasn't failed in 20 years, I'd suggest it's not really a problem.

I have a SWAG. Does the blue piece slide back and forth inside the red piece? Or at least supposed to? Because that looks like a great place for gum and/or varnish to have built up. Assuming that's all metal I might drip sewing machine oil down there. I might even be tempted to drip rubbing alcohol. Also, if I'm looking at it right, I think the blue piece inserts into the little hole in the end of the piece to the left, identified as either 91-009 602-02 or 91-009 702-02. That piece also appears to insert into 91-009 604-05 and 91-009 603-45 and rotate with the lever. That little tangle of parts looks like another haven for gummy crap and looks like it's supposed to raise/lower with the stitch length lever. I could see that being problematic. That whole area reminds me of old domestic zig zag machines I've unfrozen with all sorts of twisty turny little parts. It can take a lot of patience, oil, wd-40, PB Blaster and heat to free them up. Sometimes a week or two of tinkering on and off. Just some observations from someone who's never even seen a machine like you're working on.

Just showing off here. I've been tinkering with this machine on and off for close to a year. Used the clutch motor for a while and it now has a 550watt servo and a speed reducer. I counted 56 stitches in 60 seconds at my slowest speed. Here it sewed a single layer of fairly hard 3.8MM veg tan and then 2 layers. A shade over a quarter inch. It griped a little on the thicker piece. I still need to look at the feed dog height and adjust the walking foot lift height. And, obviously, a pressure issue if I want to sew 6.8mm. I'll keep this one threaded with 138 top and bottom.

Well, I took all my guns down to the lake because I wanted to scrub them up for the big gun buy back program. You know I'm the kind of guy that wants to keep the streets safe. The wind blew my favorite scrubbing rag overboard! I LEAPED to save it, tipping the canoe over in the process and all my guns PLUS the large economy size bottle of Dawn Dish Washing detergent I bought just for the occasion, all gone to Davy Jones Locker ... I was so broken hearted and dejected that I couldn't do my part to keep the streets safe! And all those fish now in danger, what with dangerous guns scattered all over the lake bed. My scrubbing rag blew ashore, so I did get it back.

Some pictures would be fun. Never heard of it before but the pics I find look a lot like these chinese shoe patchers people seem to be so fond of torturing themselves with.

I guess the time has come for me to make one of these. I love the Mexican Loop design but I really don't have any single action six shooters. The 1911 looks at home and I do have one or two of those floating around. Well I did before the tragic canoeing accident, but I hope to fish them out of the lake. Nice job.

Yep, that's what I saw. If you figure out a formula, I'm all ears. I really like the ropes top and bottom of the right hand side on the bottom piece, too. Can't do that one, either.

@chuck123wapati was it you that did this border a while back?

Honestly, I can't decide if you're inspirational or if you just make me feel like a lazy slug. Probably the latter. Nice work.

Welcome aboard. Based on your other posts, you're doing some nice work.

Wow. Very, very nicely done.

Yes, Bison Brown, not the other way around. Dyslexic fingers ...

I guess when you look at 2x24" and both sides, it is a pretty good amount of real estate. Maybe I'm just a cheapskate (yes, I am). I'd still like to find something close enough that I could get by the quart. The Bison Brown seems to be only available in the small size.

How is your coverage with it? I made 4 purse straps, a half inch by about 2 feet and ate up about a third of a bottle.

Yes. Someone here used it and I liked it. Normally, I don't like brown, but this one is nice.

I've tried to do that and just can't get it to turn out. I think one of the members here did this or something similar about the time I joined up.

I understand, thank you. When you're saying "the plate", I think what you're talking about is the feed dog. So you apparently removed the feed dog to check the hook timing - smart, I think, since it lets you isolate the problem. I learn a lot following these things and it sounds like you're well on the path to getting it fixed.

It looks like the manual kgg posted above is the cure. I'm curious how you know the timing is correct. If the needle doesn't descend, you can't compare the nook to needle eye position. Maybe you have a misunderstanding of how the timing works?

Looks like your sewing a single layer. I wonder if the bottom thread disappears when you sew 2 layers together?

Kind of a long shot here. Does anyone know of a close match to the Tandy Brown Bison Dye that I can buy in a quart or larger size? I ran across the color here, liked it and bought the 4oz size. It seems to take quite a bit to get coverage and it's way too much $$$ to buy in the small size. I can not find anything bigger than the 4 ouncer. Thanks.

Is the tension arm all the way up when you stop? Early on in my sewing, I'd have thread seemingly tangled like that and I was just not paying attention to the tension arm position.

Oh yeah, wouldn't THAT be a disaster. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

I'll be following this, too. I thought about making shoes for a few reasons but the last itself is the challenge. Buying a last only to find it's not quite right for my foot would be a $50 or $60 mistake that I'm not willing to risk.

Off topic, but it reminds me of the time a lady was showing me her embroidery, of which she was rightly proud. It was all beautiful work. Then she got to the pillow she had been commissioned to make for a Dachshund breeder. An hour before the client was due to pick it up, I had to be the one to tell her she had misspelled "Dachshund" ...