cylinder arm for medium wt. work?

[artificer]

I make carved leather items such as journal covers, portfolios, belts, and sheaths -- no heavy duty stuff like saddles and holsters or really thin items. While a flat bed machine would probably handle the majority of my projects, I would like the versatility of a cylinder arm machine to sew simple bags, boxes and cases. Can you buy a cylinder arm machine with a table to handle both flat and bag work less than 1/2" thick that doesn't require a tremendous amount of adjustment to do different projects? Thanks for any advice or machine options.

[neelsaddlery]

I do not know of too many lightweight cylinder arm machines that have flatbed tabletop attachments ready made for them. I have seen plenty of flatbed tabletop attachments for the heavy duty cyminder arm machines, but not for the lighter weight machines.

There are a lot of cylinder arm machines out there that can do lighter weight leather that is about 3/8" thick or less. We sell some, as well as Artisan, Ferdco, Consew, and many others.

Kindest Regards,

Ryan O. Neel

Neel's Saddlery and Harness

Cowboy Sewing Machines

[SteveBrambley]

Hi,

The old Singer Class 17 is one type of light cylinder machine that was available with an attachable table. There were a number of different versions for portfolios, pocket books, shoes and boots. They were fairly common, we have one that we used for small leather goods, a class 17-16, I expect that you could find one, if you hunted about a bit.

These are a couple of photos of ours:

Steve

Edited April 6, 2009 by SteveBrambley