How Did He Do It?

[KalL]

I was poking around someones site and I came across a few sheaths with a "indention" all the way around the inside of the sew line. How is it done? I'm also curious how he does that 2 tone effect in the other picture. It's pretty cool looking.

Edited September 24, 2014 by KalL

[glockanator]

My guess is it's his presser foot on his machine. You can see where he went outside his groove on the front near the bottom. But that is just a guess.

[KalL]

Can it be done without a machine? I would love to give it a whirl but I can't buy a machine right now. As it is I got to save for a burnisher...

[Troy Burch]

looks like a large stitching wheel mark maybe.

[KalL]

Yea, looks like the stitching line on the very bottom is over extended, but what glockanator might be talking about is the indention line on the right side is just past where it should have stopped. I'm taking a guess.

[KalL]

Anyone else got any idea's on what made the indentation or the two tone color scheme?

[rawcustom]

To me that looks entirely machine, so I would guess some portion of the machine is leaving that when it punches through. Never having used one, no idea how or why this would happen. To make that pattern by hand you would need a highly modified wheel, or maybe repurpose some other industry marker. There seems to be half a dozen different types of star wheels out there from arts and crafts to mechanic tools. Each mark seems uniquely squared from the seam so I would rule out chisels stamps or similar. If it were me I would look at what star wheel type tools are available and maybe take a solid circular one and a dremel tool and make my own.

[rawcustom]

Something like this could be modified, courtesy of the screen repair industry.

[cradom]

Something like this could be modified, courtesy of the screen repair industry.

The ideas I get coming here...

Thanks

[glockanator]

I guess you could take a large nail and file and make a pattern you like and go about it that way.

[KalL]

That's not a bad idea. It looks like he indented it and then used a camouflage tool or something over it. Modifying a screen roller might do the trick to get that clean edge.

[Gump]

That indentation is caused by the center presser foot. It has a lump behind the needle hole that is supposed to push the stitches down into the leather. My Toro 3200 came with that foot, and after 3 projects, I decided that it had to go. It left those big marks you see on the bottom tip of the sheath, on every turn I made on my work. I ground the foot flat and polished it up and no longer get those ugly marks. The lump was rounded and it ran off one side or the other of the stitch line, leaving those marks. Gump

[J Hayes]

That indentation is caused by the center presser foot. It has a lump behind the needle hole that is supposed to push the stitches down into the leather. My Toro 3200 came with that foot, and after 3 projects, I decided that it had to go. It left those big marks you see on the bottom tip of the sheath, on every turn I made on my work. I ground the foot flat and polished it up and no longer get those ugly marks. The lump was rounded and it ran off one side or the other of the stitch line, leaving those marks. Gump

I did the same thing with my machine.