No room for two needles in stitching holes (pics)

[jrdunn]

5 hours ago, whistleshortbritches said:

I am Still dreaming of that Cobra Class 4.  I need a few more Dollars and I might be able to get it. I am having trouble convincing my wife that it will look fine in the Living room, until I get that spot fixed in the shop outside to hold all the leather stuff I am accumulating.

Get a Cowboy 4500 instead.  They look great in the dining room!

[whistleshortbritches]

10 minutes ago, jrdunn said:

Get a Cowboy 4500 instead.  They look great in the dining room!

Awesome

[CdK]

When I started with the craft I had spare time and broke, still in school. A cobbler in our small town set me up with an old diamond awl, some needles & thread and a piece of beeswax. He showed me how to use these. I used a modified kitchen fork as my pricking iron and a stitching pony I made from oak lumber scraps. Useful learning how to stitch using these simple basic tools and making what you need from the (old) gentleman. (He was a teenager during WW2 and learnt through necessity to do leather work making prosthetics, these were in great demand at the time.)

[chuck123wapati]

wiggle your needles in the hole up and down side to side,  this will stretch the holes or awl cuts enough to easily pull thru. then they will close back up tight like they are supposed to be. Two needles or one doesnt matter.