Old leatherworking machines - Show and tell

[Henry]

Henry yellow has already been done. One of the Pearson's I bought from Don King before he passed away was painted bright yellow with black trim. It was actually a well done job and looked very classy. Greg And john visser had a green one a few years ago as well.

Greg,

Any chance of a picture of the yellow Pearson; I imagine it looks beautiful!

Cheers,

Henry

[oldtimer]

Here is an old skiving machine that I got for free from a friend a while ago ( JEM in this forum).

This morning I took the bull by its horns, cleaned the machine, took away all rust, turned the switch on, sharpened the knife and started figureing out how to get the machine working. I turned screws and knobs and suddenly the miracle happened ! - It started skiving leather ! It works ! I think I´ll have to buy me a lottery ticket ?

The skiver is german and is labeled " Fortschritt" which is ( correct me if I am wrong) "Progress" in english. Yes, I made some fortschritt with this machine!

/ Knut

Edited April 6, 2009 by oldtimer

[SteveBrambley]

Here is an old skiving machine that I got for free from a friend a while ago ( JEM in this forum).

This morning I took the bull by its horns, cleaned the machine, took away all rust, turned the switch on, sharpened the knife and started figureing out how to get the machine working. I turned screws and knobs and suddenly the miracle happened ! - It started skiving leather ! It works ! I think I´ll have to buy me a lottery ticket ?

The skiver is german and is labeled " Fortschritt" which is ( correct me if I am wrong) "Progress" in english. Yes, I made some fortschritt with this machine!

/ Knut

Once you get proficient in working with this machine, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it!

Steve

[bruce johnson]

Once you get proficient in working with this machine, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it!

Steve

Amen to that. I use my bell knife a lot more than I thought I would.

[oldtimer]

Once you get proficient in working with this machine, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it!

Steve

You should have seen the big smile on my face when I had it all figured out and it started to skive leather ! I guess it will save an hour or two in the long run. Trial and error works ! ( I call it the monkey method)

[CampbellRandall]

Here are a few articles I wrote on the old needle and awl machines.....

NEEDLE & AWL MACHINES

The BOSWORTH & the CYCLONE

And another on splitters....

SPLITTERS

Just a little history to go with your machines.

[Janice]

Thank you for the link. I now know my landis is a number 30!

I think the other one is a "krebs". So is that the style, or the brand name of it?

How much should I be insuring these for, if you dont mind me asking?

I would post pics, does photobucket work for everyone here, or is there a better way?

I will try photobucket in this post, for my old american boot stitcher. This would be before we cleaned off the few lbs of wax stuck to the front of it!

Hope this works

Edited April 15, 2009 by Janice

[Janice]

Sorry, those look awful big. I wont post any more till someone teaches me how to do it like everyone elses.

[bruce johnson]

Janice,

Those pictures are alright, keep posting. There is a tutorial on posting pictures as attachments here - uploading pictures as attachments. They do need to be resized to under 1 MB I think, but down to about 200-300 kb seems to work well. Especially show the splitters, we like splitters......

[Janice]

Ok, thanks for that link!

Here come the splitters, and I will put the plow gauge knife in the other post.