Tools Of A Swiss Sattler

[Trox]

Hello Walter, beautiful pictures, thank you for posting.

Tor

[Macca]

This thread gives me a severe case of the WANTIES

[walter roth]

Macca.

No, ....... that's probably quite a misinterpretation.

　

Macca, I assume you meant this word .... (VANITIES) in German „Eitelkeiten".

The pictures show where my relationship with the Saddlery and leather craft comes.

We always had horses in the family and I have therefore also such images.

And I think it's interesting sometimes to see something that has to do directly with not only the "a" theme.

I learned my profession in many long years, and I hope that the things that I show here are one or the other of use.

Who likes his profession, which would also share with other such.

I do not envy sought here in this blog, anyway.

OK ...............

greeting

Walter

Edited August 23, 2013 by walter roth

[Macca]

Hi Walter

Don't worry, no thoughts of vanity at all !

That's not what I meant

I'm a tool junkie and seeing these wonderfully engineered, rare tools makes me want them ! :-)

So please don't think anything bad, we are lucky that you take the time to share these amazing tools and history with us

it is a real treat

Thank you !

[walter roth]

Macca .......

Well, I also apologize to you. So Sorry.

My english ....)) -: I should probably learn but once properly.

I have probably too much "vanity" focused on my word.

Well, in certain things I am probably.

I never see these images here in Switzerland, to my colleagues here do not tolerate well.

That's why I enjoy posting here much because in Switzerland is not possible.

The few here are jealous and have always been afraid of the other competitors.

Well, then I will gladly go ahead and show you how the life of a saddler in Switzerland looks.

And I hope here in the blog yet to find very many suggestions.

Leather braiding, so the things I like very much and always there is something which is almost done here.

greeting

Walter

[walter roth]

Hello leather craftsmen .........

Here I have one very similar to what a splitter also knows of Osborne ago.

But the French model untercheidet have some other details.

The means for detecting the leather thickness is not provided with those forceps as at Osborne, but by a lever, the ...... here with a wooden handle is

But usually you can see a rope on the site of the wooden handle which is pulled through a hole in the bench and at the end we fixed something like a stirrup, and then served with the foot, or pressed down.

In addition, there is a device with which you could split the leather to the side edge angle.

Here on the machine is still the mark of Meyer and Flammery to see the competitor by Blanchard, with whom he fought out a legal riding in the 20ies years. It was about the use of the greyhound as a trademark.

Mayer lost the dispute to court.

So much time entertainment.

greeting

Walter Roth

[bruce johnson]

Beautiful paring machine Walter! The maker had some good ideas on the design also.

[walter roth]

Hi there.

May be bruce, yes thank you, thought ds s intressat.

The colors were so remaining in the original, I have only a little retouched.

So here's a picture of my other grandfather.

He was a farmer.

A real Toggenburg, it's almost like a part of the "Appenzell", the costume is almost the same as in the Appentzellern.

The pants were way out of yellow goatskin, but when the image entand you had the colors by hand painting the picture with the yellow was the color but not good.

For a change from the many splitter.

2 Splitter I have, but I'll show you later.

Next, I show you how manenglische "loops box" produces.

Maybe it here anyway gibtn one or the other is interested in harnesses.

I which you previously used the mene Shlaufen as 100 years ago on the fine English coach harness.

Also on the buggy harness saw it.

But first the image.

greeting

Walter Roth

[Trox]

Hi Walter, A very nice splitting machine.

I have been searching for splitting machines for years; all I have seen was Osborn and Dixon machines. Now you are pulling out of your hat the strangest looking machines, one by one. All your machines are new to me; I have never seen any of them before… Amazing. And do you still have more? Keep up posting. Moreover, they all look 100% perfect.

When you talk about loop box, is that something that you use to make box loops for harnesses? I would love to see that, thank you.

Your grandparents look good, their clothes looks just like Old Norwegian traditional clothes too (Part from the lederhosen, they used hand gesponnen kniehosen).

Thanks for posting

Tor

[walter roth]

Hello Tor .............

Thank you ............ yes I still have 1-2 more splinters, but I put a later time in the forum.

Well, the old saddler of which I have these small, which would surely delight if he could praise all of you hear .... ((-:

But now the box loops.

Yes, those are the one which used to en English harnesses.

Unfortunately I did not have digital photos of my own work, but I put a link on which you can see with my work loops.

http://www.moench-ge.../gala-geschirre

The "Albrecht Moench" is a relatively good harness saddlery.

I supply it for about 23 years with the loops.

So now here how such images creates a loop and a few examples of the 25 stamping plates that I have.

The press I myself have done, because I wanted to have a small press time, one that I could put on the bench.

I press with 8-15 tons of pressure, depending on the size of the loop.

So, now it looks to you but to myself.

Oh yeah another thing.

There are some loops make the box, but so far the only one which produces binch-sit the old fathers.

Most are very soft and have little standing, the embossing plates are very thin and do not tolerate large pressure.

Then it is extremely important that the dies have a radius, it may not be straight. Just squeezed a drop loops in use, that is, they bulge inside which looks very ugly.

The leather is naturally minted wet, and the degree of moisture is probably the thing in this work is the really big problem. It takes a lot of experience to the leather just right, but not to make them wet.

The loops remain to get used to in the form of one day in the supplied bolt-on Tools.

Greeting Walter

Edited August 29, 2013 by walter roth