Members Jim Posted August 7, 2009 Members Report Posted August 7, 2009 THank you all for your ideas and PDF files!! So my next question is can you sew the bottom part on a sewing machine? There must is a quicker way to do this, I 'm looking at making a whole bunch of these cases....Currently using the Adler 205-64 and the Junker nad RUH I think there is a type of machine that sews the angle stitch. I haven't seen one, but I have heard of it. I discussed this this with a fellow a few years ago who said I was "nuts" for doing this work by hand. I replied . . . "So, what's your point?" (See the cartridge box below.) With that, doing it by hand is a task, but it's not nearly as hard or time consuming as it seems. Once everything is laid out and pre-punched, it all goes together pretty fast. Oh yeah - Johanna, I'd be honored. Hmm, I just might write another book and elaborate the details further than the last two books. Quote Never forget where you are, so you will always remember where you've been.
Contributing Member TwinOaks Posted August 7, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted August 7, 2009 When stitching a round object like Gary's doing, it's important to remember that you're sewing on a radius. Simple geometry says the stitches on the outer piece have to be spaced further apart than the inside. It might help to take a protractor and lightly scribe the degrees on the leather. If that isn't available, you could mark the outer spacing and hold a string at the center of the radius to line up the inside hole. That should help keep the stitching spaced evenly (but not the same front and back) on both sides of the curve. Quote Mike DeLoach Esse Quam Videri (Be rather than Seem) "Don't learn the tricks of the trade.....Learn the trade." "Teach what you know......Learn what you don't." LEATHER ARTISAN'S DIGITAL GUILD on Facebook.
Members Jim Posted August 7, 2009 Members Report Posted August 7, 2009 Good point T.O. The thing to do is if you're spacing the stitches at 3/16" space the stitches on the case at 1/4". That is only the stitch placements that sew around the curve. This has served me well when installing sewn in toe plugs on my Cheyenne and California style holsters. Quote Never forget where you are, so you will always remember where you've been.
Members celticleather Posted August 8, 2009 Members Report Posted August 8, 2009 So my next question is can you sew the bottom part on a sewing machine? Forum member Steve Brambley (SteveBrambley) has a couple of machines that are capable of stitching the corners of boxes etc at a 45 degree angle. I think they're pretty hard to find, but I'm sure he'd be happy to let you know what you should be looking for. Why not drop him a pm? Quote When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody
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