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I haven't posted in a while and I remembered this category on the forum.  I wrote a blog post this morning on the general topic of leather sewing machines--more specifically, MY leather sewing machines, and the love & adoration I have for them.  Anyway, here's a link to the post--feel free to share the whole thing here if it's appropriate.  Here's the link:

http://www.brucegibsondesign.com/sewing-machines-stitchers-profanity-thoughts-violence/

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I like  this blog post a lot, much truth there. The only thing i would also like to know is the story on the one in the barn.

I have to put on the right music for my machine (not me...) Lisa Sorrel has a great video about the music her machine listens too.  I also must  be careful how many cups of coffee I've had.There is a delicate balance between too slow to react and too twitchy control the motor....

Btw, it looks like the belt alignment is a little off on the artisan though it could be the angle of the photo. If you loosen the pinch bolts and slide the handwheel out on the shaft a little, It should make the belt track straighter. The machine may be quieter and the belt will probably last longer. I know mine is quieter when i have it straight.

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My last Union Lockstitch machine was like that; touchy about changes. She preferred Travis Tritt when I sewed fast on her. Sometimes I'd play "He Walked On Water" (Randy Travis) to calm her down for fishtail stitching on gun belts.

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My current crop of sewing machines:

Cowboy CB4500, Singer 107w3, Singer 139w109, Singer 168G101, Singer 29k71, Singer 31-15, Singer 111w103, Singer 211G156, Adler 30-7 on power stand, Techsew 2700, Fortuna power skiver and a Pfaff 4 thread 2 needle serger.

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Mine tend to get along with CCR's greatest hits.  Max volume, of course.

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Violin is what my machine wants. Katica Illenyi is his favourite. She is absolutely amazing.

A little tango to keep those feet stepping right:

 

And this one blows my mind, how in tune she is with the music. In this video she is playing a theremin, an instrument controlled literally by waving your hands near it. Imaging being this in tune with a sewing machine:

 

 

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HA!  Mine aren't that cultured.  They're more beer joint, country & rock.

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Great blog, but you forgot the part about what happens when things go really bad!  I think I've uttered more really foul cuss words while sewing leather than at any other time, except maybe perhaps when working or sorting cattle or horses:-)

And I prefer dead silence when I'm sewing, anything else is too distracting. Half the people that come in comment on why I never have a radio on.  I think I'm more focused and efficient when I'm not half listening to a bunch of blabber.

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2 hours ago, Big Sioux Saddlery said:

Great blog, but you forgot the part about what happens when things go really bad!  I think I've uttered more really foul cuss words while sewing leather than at any other time, except maybe perhaps when working or sorting cattle or horses:-)

And I prefer dead silence when I'm sewing, anything else is too distracting. Half the people that come in comment on why I never have a radio on.  I think I'm more focused and efficient when I'm not half listening to a bunch of blabber.

Thanks!  I never have a radio on--for the same reason.  If there's music, it's CD's.  CD's...maybe that's showing my age?

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34 minutes ago, BruceGibson said:

Thanks!  I never have a radio on--for the same reason.  If there's music, it's CD's.  CD's...maybe that's showing my age?

Thank you Mr. Bruce (don't squat with your spurs on) Gibson, . . . CD blarin' CCR's greatest hits, . . . works for everything except dyeing.

Gotta have silence for dye jobs, . . . or everything gets the same color..........lol............

Just wish I had more CCR than I got, . . . would make life better maybe. 

When they get done, . . . Johnny Cash comes on the scene.  I'm never in the shop long enough to wear out all the music I got of both of them though.

And speakin of age, . . . if I feel especially melancholy, . . . I can always pick up my favorite four stack of Jimmy Swaggart, . . . flip on the 33 1/3 machine, . . . flip em over after they played the "A" side.  Yeah, . . . it still works.

May God bless,

Dwight

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6 minutes ago, Dwight said:

Thank you Mr. Bruce (don't squat with your spurs on) Gibson, . . . CD blarin' CCR's greatest hits, . . . works for everything except dyeing.

Gotta have silence for dye jobs, . . . or everything gets the same color..........lol............

Just wish I had more CCR than I got, . . . would make life better maybe. 

When they get done, . . . Johnny Cash comes on the scene.  I'm never in the shop long enough to wear out all the music I got of both of them though.

And speakin of age, . . . if I feel especially melancholy, . . . I can always pick up my favorite four stack of Jimmy Swaggart, . . . flip on the 33 1/3 machine, . . . flip em over after they played the "A" side.  Yeah, . . . it still works.

May God bless,

Dwight

I just might have a few of them black plastic musical plate things around myself. I even have ones made of shellac.....I have thought more than once of getting an old juke for the shop and filling it with my 45s. If I ever have a public storefront this is going to happen fer sure.

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