Leather needle/foot for normal sewing machine?

[mikesc]

The only "domestics" that you can get away with to sew light leather ( without the layers "slipping" ) are the Pfaff Select or Pfaff Jeans machines..they have a drop down ( presser foot bar driven, but built into the machine ) top "pulling foot"..the same design is available under the Gritzner ( various models ) name or as Silver Viscount ( beginning with the 4084, which is the equivalent of the older Pfaff select 4 models ) ) ..You can get 3oz chrome tan through them and 2 or if you are lucky and help them 3 oz oz veg tan.

They use a Pfaff system called IDT.( integrated synchronised top pulling foot that works at the same time as the lower feed dogs )

These are manual selection machines ( push button stitch ..not electronic stitch selection )..and are more expensive tan the electronic stitch selection models..I have a Silver Viscount 4084D..( I have real walking foot leather industrial machines and other industrial leather and industrial textile machines too )new they cost around $600.00 to $800.00 , used they hold their value pretty well..they are solid machines , but they still have some plastic ( nylon ) parts in their drive trains..they are used by a lot of costume makers and tech schools to teach pupils on..The older Pfaffs were made in Germany, the Gritzners too ( now they are made in Asia ), the Silver Viscounts are made in Iran..Best is an older Pfaff Select or Gritzner..or a Silver.

The walking foot attachments that I think you are looking at ? ( that attach to the presser foot bar ) are crap..sorry no other way to describe them..the "Pfaff Select system isn't perfect, but it can do light weight leather in combination with other textiles..and you get 3 step zig zag and stretch stitches etc..Ideal lingerie machines...and they can be run slowly..

HTH :)

Edited October 9, 2017 by mikesc