Members ArkieNewbie Posted yesterday at 06:23 PM Author Members Report Posted yesterday at 06:23 PM 18 hours ago, bruce johnson said: Yes needle type makes a huge difference in the appearance and uniformity of stitches. The only times I used round needles was for nylon. I preferred LR needles for my leather, and then rolled the backside stitches with an appropriate sized overstitcher when appearance mattered like it does here. I have attached a picture of some backside stitching as it came out of the machine with one side left as-is and one side overstitched. Oh wow!! I've only been doing this for 6 years and I learn something new every day! Looks like I need to get some overstitchers. After you asked yesterday about the needles I started googling and read and I ended up ordering some new needles as well. My Class 26 takes 135x16 and I got DP tips. I noticed when I got home a lot of the needles I had were 135x17, which I read weren't the leather needles but for nylon and such as you mentioned. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Quote
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