What tool as far as you know doesn't exist but you wish it did?

[x546JP]

What tool either doesn't exist but you wish it did, or is way to expensive? Also, what tool do you find the most difficult to use? Perhaps a template or tool guide that would make your work easier, but as far as you know doesn't exist.

Edited May 17, 2024 by x546JP

[Mablung]

A turbo encabulator. 

[kgg]

31 minutes ago, Mablung said:

A turbo encabulator. 

I thought they had already marketed the engineering joke, the turbo encabulator, more commonly known as EV (electric vehicles).

kgg

[kgg]

1 hour ago, x546JP said:

What tool either doesn't exist but you wish it did

A true bobbinless lock-stitch sewing machine.

kgg

[fredk]

2 hours ago, x546JP said:

What tool either doesn't exist but you wish it did, 

An automatic, or any, bobbin winder for Tippmann Boss bobbins 

Even something fashioned along the lines of a fishing line spool winder - the type for fixed spool reels

Edited May 17, 2024 by fredk

[fredk]

2 hours ago, x546JP said:

or is way to expensive? 

Since Harland & Wolff closed you can only buy 'diagonal steam  traps' 2nd hand and they fetch enormous prices. A cheaper one would be welcome

[x546JP]

Let me rephrase that: What hand tool doesn't exist but you wish it did?

[bruce johnson]

17 hours ago, fredk said:

An automatic, or any, bobbin winder for Tippmann Boss bobbins 

Even something fashioned along the lines of a fishing line spool winder - the type for fixed spool reels

Fred, some people mount small motors or hand cranks on the bobbin winders that are designed to ride against the belt of the machine. My Boss came with a metal stem split on the end and goes in a drill to wind bobbins. Easy to use and 20 plus years later I have still never used the built in bobbin winder on a machine. 

[toxo]

Some kind of roller with an edge treatment attached (beveller maybe) for soft leather. It can't be pushed so it would have to be like a minute angled lawnmower. 

[SUP]

@x546JP If I may ask, why do you want to know this?

[x546JP]

My interest, in addition to leathercraft, is in hand tool modifications and innovations. As such, I asked the question. Leather tools in general are interesting given the ingenuity and creativeness that makers of tools have shown over the history of the craft. I am just looking for the tool that has yet to be made.

[SUP]

Do you plan to make and sell them? That would be interesting.

[fredk]

On 5/18/2024 at 3:28 PM, SUP said:

Do you plan to make and sell them? That would be interesting.

 

On 5/18/2024 at 12:11 PM, x546JP said:

My interest, in addition to leathercraft, is in hand tool modifications and innovations. As such, I asked the question. Leather tools in general are interesting given the ingenuity and creativeness that makers of tools have shown over the history of the craft. I am just looking for the tool that has yet to be made.

I'd like a bobbin winder for the Tippmann Boss bobbins. Its incredible that you pay $1000 for a machine and they give you an aluminium bar to use in your hand drill with the bobbins. I know that due the way the machine works you can't have a machine mountable the way you can with other machines. Even if they offered a winder as an extra it would be worth buying 

mmmmm, I wonder if a small fixed spool fishing reel can be adapted??

 

[dikman]

7 minutes ago, fredk said:

mmmmm, I wonder if a small fixed spool fishing reel can be adapted??

 

Interesting idea, I don't see why not (the little closed-face casting reels come to mind). I guess it just depends on a) how handy you are at fabricating things and b) how much time you're prepared to put into it.

[x546JP]

On 5/18/2024 at 5:28 PM, SUP said:

Do you plan to make and sell them? That would be interesting.

Not necessarily. I am equipped to make tools in plastic. Some tools like the Swivel Knife Bevelers and back bevelers are really good in plastic and I do make those. I just wanted to get myself and others to think about it. I am always interested in making tools more accessible and easier to use. The cost of leather tools can be a little much for some crafters.

Edited June 4, 2024 by x546JP
Better wording

[bruce johnson]

On 5/18/2024 at 4:29 PM, fredk said:

 

I'd like a bobbin winder for the Tippmann Boss bobbins. Its incredible that you pay $1000 for a machine and they give you an aluminium bar to use in your hand drill with the bobbins. I know that due the way the machine works you can't have a machine mountable the way you can with other machines. Even if they offered a winder as an extra it would be worth buying 

mmmmm, I wonder if a small fixed spool fishing reel can be adapted??

 

Kind of interesting. I bought an early Boss 24 or 25 years ago. I loved the winder that fits a hand drill. Ordered a couple more winders as spares. I tension the thread between two fingers and can go back and forth to level wind bobbins like an old bait casting reel. I tried the bobbin winder  on my 205-64 and Ferdco 2000 and still liked my hand wounds better. same on the 1245. My wife has a Cobra 26 and I wind all her bobbins by hand drill. Would not go back. Everyone is different but that’s just me. 

[fredk]

On 5/18/2024 at 11:29 PM, fredk said:

mmmmm, I wonder if a small fixed spool fishing reel can be adapted??

A follow up; I bought a small fixed spool reel and the idea would work, but the reel's line section has to match the bobbin thread section. I went to an angling shop and the chap there helped me search out a reel. We found a few. But I can't afford to buy it for about  7 days, when I get some pay in

Continued on

 

Edited June 5, 2024 by fredk

[cashmanleather]

My Bobbin winder, old sewingmachine motor and belt. 

[Mulesaw]

I would like a needle bender/grinder.

So that if you got your hands on an old sewing machine with some out of stock needle system, you could make your own needles.

For instance the Junker & Ruh SD28 hand outsole stitcher needs some special needles that are next to impossible to come by.
I know that the machine would probably be expensive, but the idea of a dealer being able to make a few special needles, even for curved needle machines out of some stock steel appeals to me.