Need Help To Identify This Harness Sewing Machine

[cattle cutter]

Let me start by saying I am glad to have found this forum & all help will be gladly appreciated. I bought my husband this machine for Christmas. He repairs all the tack & saddles at the ranch & is making his own saddles now. I can't find a name anywhere on it & I know it is missing a few things. If anyone knows who made it & anything about getting parts for it, please let me know.

[Ken Nelson]

Let me start by saying I am glad to have found this forum & all help will be gladly appreciated. I bought my husband this machine for Christmas. He repairs all the tack & saddles at the ranch & is making his own saddles now. I can't find a name anywhere on it & I know it is missing a few things. If anyone knows who made it & anything about getting parts for it, please let me know.

It looks like a Landis 1 to me.

[Saddlebag]

Contact Jack Leighton. You can find his web site by googling Leightons sewing machines. Jack is a machinist who has specialized in stitchers. I bo't my old Union Shoe machine from him which somewhat resembles yours.

[busted]

Let me start by saying I am glad to have found this forum & all help will be gladly appreciated. I bought my husband this machine for Christmas. He repairs all the tack & saddles at the ranch & is making his own saddles now. I can't find a name anywhere on it & I know it is missing a few things. If anyone knows who made it & anything about getting parts for it, please let me know.

This is a Landis Wax Thread Sewing machine. It is not a number 1. The needles are almost nonexsitant. There is a guy in Illinois that bought out Landis when they folded. I have his phone number some where.I found it. two one seven five four three 3464. Schmetz stopped making the 200, 230 needles 3 years ago The last of their needles were the 250 and 300. That is a nice looking piece every thing is there as far as I can see. The pricker foot controls the length of the stitch. I think there are 10 pricker feet to a set. Not sure of this I had 6 when I had my Landis. This thing will sew 1/2 inch plywood with no problem. Did you get the bobbin winder with it? The tank under the shuttle is for holding the thread wax and black that was used to sew the harness with. There is a cap for the tank missing from the back of the machine.

[bdt46]

It is a Landis #1 harness stitcher. Looks like the shuttle is in place, can't tell if it has a bobbin in it! These old machines were real workhorses for harness and saddle work. They are a bottom feed and don't work very well to sew on sheepskin! Parts and needles can be a bear to find for them, so if you find any, better snatch them up! Looks like the cover plate over the shuttle is missing. I have one of these old machines that I still use once in awhile!

[cattle cutter]

The machine came as you see it. We did not get any other parts with it. The folks I got it from took it from a guy that owed them money. He was a harness maker in NV. He never paid them back & they brought it to CA when they moved. There is a holding pot that seems to have a greasy looking wax in it. It looks like there was something attached to the front of the stand & also like there was a rod or something that went thru a hole in the back. I am presuming that it was something that held the thread spool. The shuttle is there but there was no cover on it. Did these have a seperate bobbin somewhere ?

[busted]

The machine came as you see it. We did not get any other parts with it. The folks I got it from took it from a guy that owed them money. He was a harness maker in NV. He never paid them back & they brought it to CA when they moved. There is a holding pot that seems to have a greasy looking wax in it. It looks like there was something attached to the front of the stand & also like there was a rod or something that went thru a hole in the back. I am presuming that it was something that held the thread spool. The shuttle is there but there was no cover on it. Did these have a seperate bobbin somewhere ?

Bdt46 is right the covers are missing. Yes, there are two shuttle covers. You have to take the needle plate off and slide the one on the right into place both of the covers have a bevel on both edges. The bobbin is about four inches long it goes in side the shuttle. Remove the shuttle to see if there is a bobbin in there.

[cowcamp]

Let me start by saying I am glad to have found this forum & all help will be gladly appreciated. I bought my husband this machine for Christmas. He repairs all the tack & saddles at the ranch & is making his own saddles now. I can't find a name anywhere on it & I know it is missing a few things. If anyone knows who made it & anything about getting parts for it, please let me know.

That's. A landis 1 for sure easy to run and repair its a tank I dug mine upfrom undr a barn ceaned it up a stiched away.

Will sew everything including finger mine got caugh by a size 300 nedle

Nice find .

[cattle cutter]

Thanks everyone. We had to store it in a tack room right now until his workshop gets here in a couple of days. It wouldn't fit in the shop he is in now as the building was just to small. I know he would have brought it in the house if I let him.

Contact Jack Leighton. You can find his web site by googling Leightons sewing machines. Jack is a machinist who has specialized in stitchers. I bo't my old Union Shoe machine from him which somewhat resembles yours.

Jack talked to my husband a few days ago & explained everything he needed to know about the machine. My husband can't wait to start using it.

[ryano]

Needles for this machine are being made again by another company. Landis one needles, size 200(25) 230(26) leather point. You can buy these from Eli Slayball. He ones the Landis Sales company in Illinois 217-543-3464.