Happy Every Day - Stitching Pony

[Trox]

Wow, somebody really know how to get paid, or maybe not. Is that Micky Mouse $ or US$

[camano ridge]

If I got paid that much for making something like that I would be Happy Everyday.

[BDAZ]

Sorry, Cheryl, I've just changed my profile to show Shrewsbury UK, and not Shrewsbury in USA somewhere. I hope the pricing is a mistake or else their economy is the one that will need protecting.....

Looks nice though........

I used to live in Shrewsbury in the US, near Boston andpronounced Shruusberry, not Shrowsburry FYI..

Bob

[leathervan]

I bought a Tandy stitching pony and am disappointed.

[ClaireAshton]

I used to live in Shrewsbury in the US, near Boston andpronounced Shruusberry, not Shrowsburry FYI..

Bob

Hi Bob,

Our Shrewsbury in the UK has no official, or even locally accepted, correct pronunciation. I say SHREW not SHRO.

Best Wishes

Claire

[ClaireAshton]

Hi Van, Me too, so I made my own (well, a horse really) which I modelled on the one in the Al Stohlman book on handstitching. For what it is worth, I think the Al Stohlman books are still the best basic instructional books on leather basics on fabrication and tool use. Oh, I feel another topic coming on.........

[BDAZ]

Hi Bob,

Our Shrewsbury in the UK has no official, or even locally accepted, correct pronunciation. I say SHREW not SHRO.

Best Wishes

Claire

I lived in Berkshire for a few years and had heard it pronounced Shrow. I also lived in Berkshire County in Massachusetts and we pronounce it Berk and Bark. Two nations divided by a common language!

Cheers!

Bob

[Trox]

Hi Claire,

I agree with you about Al Stohlman`s books, it was my only way to learn when I started to do leather work. And I am glad I did that way, because then I Learned the basics right from the start.

I thought Norway and Switzerland was the two most expensive places to buy leather tools. Here is a stitching horse sold and made here in Norway http://www.finn.no/finn/torget/annonse?finnkode=42320422&searchclickthrough=true&searchQuery=j%C3%B8rn+jensen+as#resultat?keyword

534,- US$.

And here is a very good one made in Switzerland (see picture), preferred by our Swiss master saddler Walther Roth. Price : expensive (I do not remember, but see the topic in leather history: "tools of a Swiss saddler"). If I was going to put some money in to a new clamp, this would be my choice. Because of the very good locking mechanism, among other things.

Normally I use one of my sewing machines for my stitch work. I do my heavy stitching on a 441 and finish of by hand on a French stitching clamp. If somebody want to pay extra for hand stitching they will get that too.

Thanks

Tor