Sewing Veg Tan V Chrome

[Flattracker]

Ok so I've been taking various veg tan to test out at my local machine shop, sheep, calf, cow in various thicknesses and it all marks up on the walking foot. Soooo I have a small amount of chrome tanned leather I bought a while back. If I take this to the sewing machine shop will this be my eureka moment of clarity with no teeth marks?? Or just very faint teeth marks?

Thanks all.

[Matt T]

Yes, in my experience the chrome tan is more resistant to teeth marks from the machine.

[Flattracker]

Wow, it worked! Only the very faintest of a tram line which will rub out instead of the gouged teeth marks. But what was also odd was that I tried the veg tanned sheep leather and that also only had a faint tram line (no teeth marks) and on the calf you couldn't see any marks at all. Feeling much better about this now. The machine was a Tysew Mk 5 walking foot. I'm going back next week with more leather and some heavier thread, 15 I think if I can get it which more closely resembles the Barbour 18/3 hand stitched thread. I need some advise on thread type but I'll post that separately. Cheers

[Jules888]

Hi, did you end up getting the tysew machine? If so how have you found it? I'm currently looking at the tysew mark 5 cylinder arm machine to make handbags but can't find any reviews about this brand x