Such a pleasure to watch.

[SUP]

Found this the other day.

Awed that there is no guide-line for sewing or anything else. 

 

 

[fredk]

Excellent video. I've watched many of these and am always impressed by the workers' skills

Who needs a stitching clamp? Just use your feet. No lasts until near the end. One knife does all cutting and trimming

As for the sewing without a guide; the more often you do something the better you get at. I had a bro-in-law who was a time served painter (houses, not scenes) and he could paint a 5 cm (2 inch) wide line down the centre of a wall 40 ft long and hardly varied the line by more than 2mm, and both ends were the same, height and width and at the same height on the wall, all done without masking or measuring

I want to know what glue these workers use

Edited Saturday at 07:12 PM by fredk

[SUP]

I know. The glue in an open pot applied with fingers, the granite stone which is used to work on as well as to sharpen the single knife and a block of wood. I think of all the tools that I have and  still not getting that result.  Makes me feel so humble. 

[AEBL]

I think I saw the glue applied to both pieces that were to be adhered. It worked on rubber and leather ... makes me think it was a contact cement.

[dikman]

I was going to watch it later but once I started........his work with just one knife was fascinating to watch and yes, I wondered about the glue. It seemed to dry pretty quick and yet he kept it in a dish that is open to the air. And it never occurred to me to use a hard grinding wheel to sand edges, I may just have found a use for all the grinding wheels that I've accumulated (plus they'll last forever!).

[AEBL]

I would imagine that the grinding wheel would clog up with leather particles pretty quickly. You might also want to get a rubber cleaning block or something.

[SUP]

I just saw another similar video with an intriguing little cup to hold some colorless liquid - it appears to be made entirely of... glue?