Members Leather Repair Center Posted Wednesday at 09:03 PM Members Report Posted Wednesday at 09:03 PM Hi everyone, My name is Alexander. I run a small leather repair business serving the Bay Area, mostly working on furniture, car seats, and commercial seating. Spending time working with leather naturally got me curious about leathercraft in general, especially making things like bags, belts, and wallets. I’m not making anything just yet, but I’m really interested and plan to start learning and experimenting soon. For now, I’ll mostly be reading, watching what others are creating, and soaking up as much knowledge as I can. Glad to be here and grateful for the opportunity to learn from such a skilled and passionate community. Quote Leather Repair Center offers expert mobile restoration for furniture, auto interiors, RVs, and more. We specialize in leather repair in San Francisco.
AlZilla Posted Wednesday at 09:20 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 09:20 PM Welcome aboard. I'd love to do some upholstery and car seats, if I could discipline myself to focus. Even in my rural part of the world, the few who do it, make good money. What do you use for sewing machines? There are many sewing machine addicts here ... Please post some of your repair work over in "Show Off", when you can. I don't think we get much of that here. Quote “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” - Aristotle
Members Leather Repair Center Posted Wednesday at 10:01 PM Author Members Report Posted Wednesday at 10:01 PM 40 minutes ago, AlZilla said: Welcome aboard. I'd love to do some upholstery and car seats, if I could discipline myself to focus. Even in my rural part of the world, the few who do it, make good money. What do you use for sewing machines? There are many sewing machine addicts here ... Please post some of your repair work over in "Show Off", when you can. I don't think we get much of that here. I don’t use any sewing machines yet — I’m just getting started in the leather repair business. Right now I focus on fixing existing leather car seats, but I don’t do full upholstery replacements yet. Planning to offer that down the line, since there’s definitely strong demand and good money in this niche. The guy I’m learning from uses the Juke sewing machine, so when the time comes, I’ll probably go with that brand too. Quote Leather Repair Center offers expert mobile restoration for furniture, auto interiors, RVs, and more. We specialize in leather repair in San Francisco.
Moderator Wizcrafts Posted 5 hours ago Moderator Report Posted 5 hours ago On 7/16/2025 at 6:01 PM, Leather Repair Center said: I don’t use any sewing machines yet — I’m just getting started in the leather repair business. Right now I focus on fixing existing leather car seats, but I don’t do full upholstery replacements yet. Planning to offer that down the line, since there’s definitely strong demand and good money in this niche. The guy I’m learning from uses the Juke sewing machine, so when the time comes, I’ll probably go with that brand too. When you do make the jump into sewing machines, if you have any technical or operational questions, head over to our Leather Sewing Machines section of the forums. When you do get to try using his Juki, hold back the starting threads so that the top thread doesn't get pulled into the shuttle and jams the machine. Holding at least to top thread, back and to one side, keeps it from getting drawn down unexpectedly. You can let go after either backtacking, or sewing all the way around and overlapping the first 5 to 10 stitches. Your master should teach you that, but it becomes a subconscious operation that one might fail to pass along. Quote Posted IMHO, by Wiz My current crop of sewing machines: Cowboy CB4500, Singer 107w3, Singer 139w109, Singer 168G101, Singer 29k71, Singer 31-15, Singer 111w103, Singer 211G156, Adler 30-7 on power stand, Techsew 2700, Fortuna power skiver and a Pfaff 4 thread 2 needle serger.
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