Sewing Leather / Leather+Canvas Machine Advice

[CloudyCreek]

On 12/10/2016 at 8:09 AM, Darren Brosowski said:

If it is the Singer "Heavy Duty" that usually comes up then ANY industrial machine will be a ray of sunshine for CloudyCreek!

I have been working a lot recently with people making bags and most agree that they want, or should have bought, a cylinder bed machine. The CB227R/ Techsew 2700 or the CB341/Techsew 2750 are the machine of choice for these users

Yes I can only imagine how I'll feel when I have an industrial machine! I decided to learn and do as much as I could on my Heavy Duty. A machine with REAL power will be sooooo nice. 

I'm still on the fence about flatbed or cylinder. I know all the advantages of each. But I've been getting around not having a cylinder bed by how I design items. Decisions, decision. 

[CloudyCreek]

18 hours ago, brmax said:

It helps to have two people anyway ya look at it, moving a "machine head " or the stand itself into a new location, be residential or commercial.

These walking foot machines "industrial" 8hr days every day, several shifts, machines are tough and simply require some good help moving around.

The first things I do is fit wheels on stands for my particular setup, and each place and persons station is different, as should be. I cannot stress enough to a person interested in this to select a thread size or sizes very similar as this is going to be the best choice and most precise setup you can ask a professional to set up. There is simply no machine that can jump from hair thin thread to rope size threads without "proper adjustment" so I remind myself of this often.

It looks as though if bags are an item on the list, well the choice should lead towards the cylinder arm machine. Just because some of the tough ends or bottom sections to sew are really tough or impossible on a flat top, you can only twist and fold material so much. I think some great design planning can have a big influence on machine type availability also : )

So with that consider the tough nuts / material folding dilemmas at present and we look forward hearing in your future choices.

good day

Floyd

I've considered thread size. And I won't stray too much as I move from all leather projects to canvas/leather projects as I'm sewing thick/dense canvas as well. It can never be too strong, right?

 

And I've definitely pulled some hair out trying to work magic on bending and folding material on my flatbed. That's why I've been very critical of my designs so I can avoid that! BUT, having a cylinder bed will open up more design options for me. I wonder if it's tedious when sewing the bag's body on a cylinder bed with large pieces of material?

Thanks for the input Floyd.