Seam Gauges for Patterning

[Aven]

Does anyone know of another source for a set of seam gauges other than ZegZug?  Google only finds sewing gauges when I search. 

Thanks

[toxo]

Forgive my ignorance Aven but I'll never be too old to learn. Never seen these before, how are they used?

[Aven]

They are typically used to design shoe upper patterns and to mark the upper leathers.

They are used the same way you would use dividers to mark a line parallel to an edge, without having to reset the dividers each time the allowance changes.  

[chuck123wapati]

7 minutes ago, Aven said:

They are typically used to design shoe upper patterns and to mark the upper leathers.

They are used the same way you would use dividers to mark a line parallel to an edge, without having to reset the dividers each time the allowance changes.  

make your own set.

[Aven]

I'm not setup for metal working, which is why I asked if anyone knew of another place to purchase them.

[chuck123wapati]

17 minutes ago, Aven said:

I'm not setup for metal working, which is why I asked if anyone knew of another place to purchase them.

I've spent about an hour looking I cant find any thing like them. i can see they are expensive on that site due to the nice craftsman ship no doubt, they are nicely made.

You could buy several cheapo wing dividers and set them and leave them.

You could make them from about anything not necessarily metal.

You could take an old set of dinner forks and tweak the tines to the desired widths, crab / lobster forks maybe even.

 

[Ddat]

That's great ingenuity. 

[rmdorman]

Theres these chinese ones

Seam gauge

[Aven]

Thanks for the link rmdorman. I picked up some similar to those

[rmdorman]

Oh man I didn’t realize how old this thread was haha  glad you found one! 
I haven’t tried these but I’ve been considering them. What did you think of the quality?

[jcuk]

On 9/23/2023 at 4:57 PM, Aven said:

Does anyone know of another source for a set of seam gauges other than ZegZug?  Google only finds sewing gauges when I search. 

Thanks

Found these not cheap, i know its an old thread but you might want to see what other tools he has for sale some interesting stuff.

https://shop.shoemakercraft.com/products/seam-gauges-set-1-0-mm-15-0-mm-and-20-0-mm

Hope this helps

JCUK

 

[Aven]

Thanks for the link @jcuk. 

That is an interesting shop. Such a cool mixture of vintage and new.  For those that are looking, they carry boar bristle as well as steel bristles.  They have a couple options for linen thread and they have a hand wax (coad). 

I wish my German was better, I would love to read through those Der Schuhmacher journals. 

[rmdorman]

Iphone or google lens can do it for you

(this screenshot not a great example cause the picture was low resolution)