bullrope braider Report post Posted November 21, 2010 Hi everyone, My name is John, owner of www.jwebullropes.com out of Southwest New Mexico. way back in my younger day's I made my own bull ropes in order to compete, I made a pair of chaps in high school that I still have stored away and never forgot how cool that was to use equipment made myself. those chaps are pretty crude compared to what I'm seeing now day's so I'm here to learn some new stuff from you all and yes I've already found the DVD's and patterns on chinks so I'll be ordering my copy soon. I found this site after ordering a new Tacsew t111-155 for my projects and continued researching this machine. I found other fourms on upholstery but found more information on sewing leather here at LW than anywhere else. I was using a home sewing machine for thin leather but when I decided to start building chaps, chinks, bull rope pads and what have ya I wanted a better machine. I used to hand sew the bull rope pads and ended up dropping them as it was too time consuming and took away from making bull ropes. I made belts back in the day too and really want to get back into tooling again, my first wife made off with all my tools along time ago so I'll be starting all over with new stuff as I can afford to piece them in. I have three master bull rope braiders working for me and they free up my schedule just enough to include hand crafting accessories again. I hope to learn from you all and make lots of friends here, please bear with me as I work through a new learning curve with the tacsew (it's coming with a servo motor) cuz I'll be asking lots of questions. Glad to meet everyone here and thanks for letting me join this great forum John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rdb Report post Posted November 21, 2010 Welcome, John. Looked at your site. Looks like great work. Hope you sell lots of them. If you intend on getting back into things, this is definitely the right place to be. I'm sure you'll find plenty to learn from, and give back in return. -dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullrope braider Report post Posted November 28, 2010 Welcome, John. Looked at your site. Looks like great work. Hope you sell lots of them. If you intend on getting back into things, this is definitely the right place to be. I'm sure you'll find plenty to learn from, and give back in return. -dave Thanks, I appreciate that. Well, the tacsew machine I was getting is not coming as there was some miscommunication on both sides and the bank wouldn't honor the dealers interest rate and payment terms I was promised and the shop owner bent over backwards to set things straight for me and we decided to just cancel the order. What a great guy though and I'm thankful there are still some great shops around that care about their customers. I wont mention any names here but if you'd like to know more just pm me or email me about it. Moving on though it might have been for the best as after going through this forum and reading all the great post's from the expert's I'm rethinking which machine I should get and like so many other user's I've read about that claimed they would be sewing light to medium leather projects but then found out the machine they bought wasn't tough enough for heavier projects as the user progressed up the learning curve. I'm leaning towards something that will handle an occasional heavy leather repair job for my friends to medium projects like chaps and belt sewing and I really like the looks of the Cobra line of machines. There's just too much of a chance if I bought a tacsew that I would regret not spending my money on a machine that would handle it all instead of just the medium jobs. It will take me longer to save the funds for one of the bigger machines but after re thinking how I want my projects to come in out in appearance I'm with the Wiz and some others on the bigger thread and needles and the tacsew just wont handle the thread size. I'm sure it would have been a nice machine if all I did was upholstery but odd's are sooner or latter along will come that piece of heavy leather I'll need to work on and before you know it I'm having to buy another machine. I will keep on reading through the many post's as there is so much good info here I know i'll get it figured out before long. thanks, John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CowboyBob Report post Posted November 29, 2010 You found a great site here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
