Members luxuryluke Posted March 26, 2019 Members Report Posted March 26, 2019 Those are beautiful bags. Totally agree: cylinder arm/bed. The advice on this forum is excellent. I Just arrived here one month ago from hand stitching and had a lot of the same concerns. I picked up a used cylinder arm and it’s nearly everything I hoped. But regular leather machines use much thinner threads than hand stitching. Unfortunately the machines that appear to be referred to as Stitchers are the only comparable machines to the thick stitching of handstitched/saddle stitched items. It seams the Cobra and Cowboy machines have this arena handled, but they were more money than I wanted to spend for my first machine. I’ll be working up to them for sure. Good luck and share what you find! Quote Handstitcher since ‘17. Newly acquired: Necchi 840-100 RB (rotative binder)
Members dikman Posted March 26, 2019 Members Report Posted March 26, 2019 Don't forget that hand stitching thinner materials with relatively large thread is easy but machine stitching such items is not! Quote Machines wot I have - Singer 51W59; Singer 331K4; Seiko STH-8BLD; Pfaff 335; CB4500. Chinese shoe patcher; Singer 201K (old hand crank)
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