Tippmann boss thread?

[Dwight]

Here is one of my favorite holsters, . . . 346 thread.

May God bless,

Dwight

[Mocivnik]

Looks decent, will buy that one from Tandy. I hope the one from the link is OK.

[jimi]

I think Dwight said he used waxed thread not polyester from Tandy?? or maybe i missed out on something??

[Mocivnik]

25 minutes ago, jimi said:

I think Dwight said he used waxed thread not polyester from Tandy?? or maybe i missed out on something??

yeah, but I cannot find which one he meant. None of them above doesn't have thread size written.

https://www.tandyleather.com/en/category/threads

[Dwight]

Some of the stuff I've gotten from Tandy has a wax coating on it, . . . the latest stuff does not, . . . and I don't know if it's polyester or what, . . . it is what they sold me.  

It has a coating that sometimes acts like wax, . . . I just assumed that is what it is, . . . but I'm not a chemist.  

The holster in the picture was sewn with Tandy  346 white thread, . . . then dyed when I dipped the holster in the British tan dye.

May God bless,

Dwight

Edited August 14, 2019 by Dwight

[jimi]

OK, Sorry mocivnik. i did miss something .

Since you are in the EU we have a very nice waxed linen thread here from Hoogen. You can get it from some of the shoe machinery suppliers. It is not the cheapest. They use it for the Out sole stitcher machines like the Frobana/Gritzner and it comes in size 4 and 5 normally. Colours are Natural,brown and black i think. Also there are large bobbins of linen thread available the only thing you would have to do would be to wax it. Here are some pictures of some linen thread i have been using for sandal making used in a Frobana. And the thinner 18/3 linen thread can be used in a machine. Beware of some sellers as they will tell you it is ok for machine use but many are not, they have to be round and not erratic in thickness like some are.

this is the comparison between nylon bonded 270 and Hoogen nº5

Here are the two sizes: 20/6 nº4 and 20/8 nº 5 (6 fach and 8 fach)

Here are two older ones which were used for Rafflenbeul´s Matador machine which was like the Froban/Gritzner.

Here is the comparison with the 18/3 linen thread and the bonded nylon 270.

 

[jimi]

Forgot to mention there is a twist to this story... the left - Z and the right - S.

[dougfergy]

Probably a dumb question but why the two twists and why does it matter?  Just curious!

[jimi]

As far as i know a lot of the shoe machines use the S twist, double needle machines and S twist is used seemingly in hand sewing, for normal machines, which is the majority, they use Z twist. you can see in the picture the bonded nylon is Z twist. If you use a S twist in your machine it could loosen or unravel or get Knotted or just give you tension problems. Maybe just a case of trying it out if you get the chance and see what the difference is.