Bulk End Strap End Cutting Quickly

[Tex Shooter]

You could make a end strap cutter out of a short socket and then screw it to the ram of a arbor press through the square hole. Make it like this one made with a tall socket. By the way I made his one with a bench grinder and and sharpened it with a Dremel tool. Dipping it in water quite often to keep from losing the temper of the socket tool. You could use a extension for a tool holder for all the rough grinding. -- Tex

Seventy Five Cent End Strap Cutter Or Punch - Leather Tools - Leatherworker.net

[Ferg]

Some of you gents may think the press I illustrated is slow but I assure you, it is not.

"Slow" is relative to the person doing the work. Lay out the job, set-up the jig and have at it. Simple as that.

ferg

[Tex Shooter]

A arbor press set up like this for end strap cutting should be very quick. If I was running a saddle shop or any shop where I did a lot of clicking I would have a big swing arm clicker. However having used the manual Lucris clicker I would not be without a small manual clicker in such a shop if I clicked a lot of small items. It is so easy and fast it to click small items. The 3 items that I sell the most, I sell maybe 500 and up a month and I can click 250 clicks per hour. When I get a large custom order of say 300 and up on one order the Lucris I own pays for its self every time. -- Tex