Tools Of A Swiss Sattler

[walter roth]

Oh, and I thought, I remain the only one who has such a thing for all time...

Naja.................

It is exactly by Mayer and Flammery.

Greeting

Walter

[Macca]

Hello Macca

Well, then go ahead...

You know, I'm always curious about everything.

A few pictures and put it up, and if it has something special, then we make an Exchange - trade...((-:

Anxiously waiting...

Greeting

Walter

Will be a week or so before I can put up any pictures, out of the country on business

I doubt there is anything you won't have seen before though, lots of blanchard, Mayer Flamery knives, plough gauges etc

maybe the eyelet setter I have found would be new to you (although not a saddler tool, more for a cobbler)

[simontuntelder]

I feel a bit embarrassed posting in this thread because you guys have the most amazing tool collections, but I've almost only started my crafting, so my tool collection is less impressive, but I'm continuously upgrading, so at some point I'll hopefully have a tool collection that can somewhat match the ones you have. At least I hope so.

But Walter, I purchased this German plough gauge quite cheaply from an old gentleman who bought it some years ago on a flea market from the remaining family members of a deceased saddler.

Now I'm fairly certain that I saw the name of the maker somewhere else in this thread (Mezler & Feller?), but what I would really like to know is what the "Import" and "Import 14" means?

Here are some pictures and please know, that I took the pictures after opening the parcel, so I haven't had the chance to clean it and restore it.

Edited September 12, 2013 by simontuntelder

[Macca]

Don't be embarressed, I am also very new.

The stuff that Walter, Tor, Bruce etc put up are a great education and inspiration.

I really struggle to find German tools, French & UK are relatively easy but German, very difficult

Even with my geographic advantage I struggle to find old German tools !

Btw, I dont see any pictures ?

[Macca]

Can see it now

Nice find !

I wonder how many companies produced (I don't want to use the word copied ! ) this pattern

Who was the original, Blanchard or Mayer Flamery ?

[simontuntelder]

Where are you located, Macca?

I sometimes come across the German tools, but I was under the impression that the English and French tools were the best, so I haven't been buying many German tools - besides some wad punches and such. But reading this thread has made me change my perception af big.

I recently bought the estate of an old shoemaker, and he had some tools from the Swedish maker E A Berg from Eskilstuna, who is mostly famous for woodworking and woodcarving tools, and those tools - especially the knives are also looking very, very good. But I suspect that they're mostly for the shoemaking trade.

[Macca]

I spend most of my time between Holland and Germany for work, with lots of other places in Europe and further in between

Still have a place just outside Dresden, I was based there for the last 5 years.

Should be fully moved out within a couple of months, so trying to take advantage of it by picking up some German stuff before the final removal van leaves ! , but it's not easy to find anything.

[walter roth]

Hi Simon...

But never mind, every picture is welcome.

Something very insignificant can be very interesting..................

I started even with little, with a handful of tools when I stood for the first time in the Saddlers's workshop of my teacher.

And everything was rusty and needed, and neither was good.

Well, today it has E-Bay, previously was at the flea market.

Only one is become worse, the saddlery where you can watch the craft to learn, who are almost all died.

The Ploug gouge is a "Rössler" or correctly just "Felzer and Meller" in Thuringia, Germany.

What means "Import 14", which is not known to me, also never saw it...???

Who made exactly such patterns exactly so for the first time, I don't know.

But I have at Saddlers 30 years ago ploughs views, which were quite similar to this pattern, but at the age of 150-180.

Unfortunately I could not buy, it looked already as the but not with screw by Blanchard that blade was attached to the device, but had a thickening which has been inserted into a Groove down at the edge without any screws.

The plough was also much more decorated in the small details, since a margin, there a knurling or hatch.

Blanchard did not invent it well, but it was a mutual copy good ideas.

Greeting

Walter

[walter roth]

Hello together.

Just a little time, but do have something quickly to the watch.

Here are some knives as she used the sattler.

You all know the skiving knife, ...die.

The blades with curved forms was used to separate the straw, and the hook-shaped blades were to the cut off of the straw in the filled collars.

The tips were all purpose knife.

The work collars and also the English are made with rye straw, and that is cut off with the chopping blades if you SEW these collars up.

To the sewing together of the thick collars filled with straw to use that collar-awls.

There a few different versions, here.

Oh, and then there is a knife handle with a razor blade is

I use that to cut lambskins.

You want to cut the leather, but not hair that it also cut.

It is believed the longhair lambskins horses sleigh to equip.

One draws the benches thus makes also cover it transforms freezes.

Greeting

Walter

[Trox]

Hello Friends,

If anybody deserves to win (buy) that Machine à parer Mayer Flamery (splitter) it is you Macca. "What goes around comes around" they say, and thats true too. Very nice job there my friend.

Simon,

Thats a very nice Plough you found there, straight and very good visible markings on the ruler. Use Dremel 538 nylon compound brush on it, its magical. Brush in one direction on the brass (same as the markings), it will look good brushed (some like them polished too, but then they it have to be spotless or else it wont look good). The 538 works especially good on surface rust, I use it before polishing the steel. German tool makers used the best metal available, but often only painted the wooden shafts. I do not understand that decision. You may know that ROK`s (from Denmark) alcohol leather stain work very well on wood too, all our knife makers use it. When you have removed the surface rust on this tool it will look like new, its a very good tool pattern too. I like to have the knife bevel on the left side (then it compress the leather against the straight edge) and flat on the left side. Others like the knife to have double edges.

I do not understand why you are embarrassed to show of this nice tool, remember Walter has been in business more than 30 years, and inherited his Father and grandfathers tool too. It will be hard for anyone to match his collection, he has one of the worlds greatest/finest collections of user leather tools. Only one that sell tools like Bruce will be in his class. And we have still not seen the end of it.

If that tells me anything; its alright to keep on buying. Thank you Walter, Your tools and knowledge are amazing.

Keep on posting.

Thanks

Tor