mattsh Report post Posted March 15, 2010 Here is a pic of my best effort at a Duke rig. The belt stitching was challenging. It was a learning experience with my machine. It's the first time I have used it to stitch anything. Learned a lot in setting up the machine. It's a consew 733-r2. I had no (what I would call) real user manual. Took me hours to set it up so it would stitch and make the lock correctly without bunching up the thread. Finally got it figured out and it did really well. However I did not account for the fact that I needed more material between the stitch and the edge so the feeddogs would work correctly, but oh well, now I know for next time. There are 26 loops (5 reloads + 1 rifle round as the marker ). The gun is a .357 Colt SAA. It was a lot of fun working on this and I learned alot. I'll take more photos later. It was a cloudy day but I still had issues with some glare. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Denster Report post Posted March 15, 2010 Pretty darn nice rig. I like the gun too:) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigRiverLeather Report post Posted March 15, 2010 That looks REALLY good. I can see what happened on the belt. So, that gives you an opportunity to save me from that anguish when I get mine. Is it safe to assume that when sewing along an edge one has to be careful the feet do now slip off of the egdge making the stitch line crooked? How does one do this? Are there special feet for that application if doing belts? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattsh Report post Posted March 15, 2010 Denster - thanks BRL - not sure about a different set of feet. If there are that would be great, but I don't know. It's been difficult to find any information on this machine I have. So until I can figure out a different way to make this work I am going to be sure to leave plenty of material to the "waste" side of the stitch so the feeddogs will not try to basically push the leather unequally and cause the stitch line to get crooked (if that makes sense). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cazio Report post Posted March 22, 2010 Great looking rig. We all make mistakes, that's what makes it look homemade but when we do it makes us remember for the next time. Cazio Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bronc701 Report post Posted March 22, 2010 Looks good, I read the other posts and had to go back to see what they were talking about. So I doubt wnyone will notice unless they have it in there hand and are inspecting it. Good Job. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomSwede Report post Posted March 22, 2010 Smooth!!! Love the rich look on the reddish leather!!! Tom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
