The Crispin Colloquy

I am looking for a hand-cranked leather splitter, such as a Landis 30 or its ilk. If anyone has one they'd like to sell, or knows of a fair-priced source for one, please let me know.

Thanks,
Lancepryor

Lance,

Give Ron Ross a call at Ross Saddlery. His email address is: rosaddlery@mchsi.com
He often has splitters for sale.

PK

Hi Lance,

Assuming you mean ONLY the cranked-feed variety....

I saw a new one in the Weaver Leather catalog - probably far east import stuff, hard to get anything else new these days, but Weavers are good to deal with. The original Landis 30 is a rare find - which is why I busted my budget to buy mine when I found it! (on that auction site)

Best of luck,
Kate
Kate's Custom Gunleather
www.IrishHuntersandJumpers.com

Looking for a Shoe shine stand for my NEW shop.
Anyone here have one to sell REAL cheap (if possible), Washington state Please.

Thanks, Joe.
Joe's Shoe & Leather Repair
15842 Tukwila International Blvd.
Tukwila, WA,98188
206-988-4861

Looking for a manual for a Singer 45k21 or 25 basically the same machine. The usual sources are no help. Thanks in advance, Curt

Curt Gillock
www.twofoolsleathergoods.com

To Jim Skoda from your postiong on
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 07:32 am:
On your diamond patterned black leather . . . have you tried that "Leather, Suede and Skins" store in NYC? they are listed on line in the www.newbigbook.com directory of leather and saddle and upholstery resources and suppliers.

A while back . . . maybe six months or more, there was discussion on where to locate linen thread? Can some one repost or point me to the original post?

Thanks!
Lisa

Lisa:

Regarding linen thread. In the USA, you can order linen thread from AGS Footwear in Virginia (800) 446-3820; however, this thread is wet-spun, which makes it harder and less supple.

I recently bought alot of linen thread from some guy in Canada who had numerous boxes of New Old Stock thread from the 50's! It has a bit of browning to it, but it seems to retain its strength. It is nice and soft, but has good fiber length.

I would be happy to sell you some at my cost, assuming you don't need too much. The seller may also have some left; he sells on ebay with the thread listed as "hemp thread", I believe.

(Message edited by lancepryor on August 13, 2005)

I would like to buy some coad stitching wax, homemade, from someone at the Annual General Meeting. I'd like to use it as a comparison bench mark and to use until I start my caldron bubbling with my own brew from the recipes posted on this site. I live in California where the temperature doesn't fluctuate like it does in other areas with exptreme summers and winters. Any volunteers?

Thanks

Georgene McKim

Georgene,

I hear Al Saguto is rather a master of many useful coatings and other compounds for leather, thread and shoemaking tools. I offer you a brick of caranuba wax given to me by Jim Bowman [if I could only remember where I put them] if you need it, for whichever coating you wish to create. Preferred for it's hard shine on autos, I was told it was used on lasts to seal and waterproof the rock hard maple.

Regards,
Lisa

Looking for a place to buy a small order of boot box's thanks Matt

Matt,

From what I've seen and read around, Manufacturers have there own box making facilities, and most small companies buy the closest thing suitable from places such as U-Line. Do a Google search, order a catalog, and you'll be flooded with duplicate catalogs in no time!

Hope this helps,

Erick

Matt,

I agree with Erick. If you want something special--with your name and logo on it, or something like that, you're gonna have to buy a lifetime supply and then some. If you just want a decent box for shipping you can probably buy four dozen or something like that pretty reasonable.

Best boxes I ever saw, however, were cut from a special jig that Dave Viers commissioned. They were all one piece of cardboard--no separate top--and they went together by folding along pre-creased lines. Tabs fit into slots and when you were done folding, the box was complete--no tape or anything necessary to hold its shape.

I think they were four inches deep by 14" wide by 20 inches long. You could fit a pair of 18" boots in there...no "rattle around in the box" room.

If you need an address let me know but you can find manufacturers of boxs in almost every moderate size town or city. Even Redmond, Oregon has one.


Tight Stitches
DWFII--HCC Member

Hi Matt,

Having been a packaging designer on and off for the last 10 years, it is possible to buy boxes from a lot of places. In addition to U-line like people there are Tharco and Kent H. Landsberg that have catalogs of a LOT more box sizes. If you order custom made or printed boxes the order quantities are in thousands.

By the way, a shoe box style box would be called a rolled end tuck top (RETT) with dust flaps. This will have flaps on the front and sides with double walls on the end. You also want at least 200# board. 275# is really nice and thick, but hard to find.

Good luck.

Paul

Does anyone know a source for erasable ink pens for making marks on leather that can be completely removed? Thanks.

Jenny,

Try Fisher Space Pens in your seach. Their Economy line is where you'll find silver pens. I buy them by the dozen and share them with leather friends whenever they visit my shop. They're only like 3 bucks each.

Sorry I don't have a link handy.

PK

Jenny,

I buy the silver pens from Ward & Kennedy in Milwaukee, I can dig around and get you a number, but I may have extras, e-mail me off list, I am in Chicago and buy them for my students.

The only shortcoming of the Silver pens is they don't come off of suedes or buffed leathers- I had a student who used it on tooling leather, and made that discovery! BTW, if anyone has a fix for that, I wouldn't mind hearing it.

Erick

I have been a lurker on this board for a little while. I mostly listen because I have very little to contribute. I have taken a couple of classes in stitchdown shoes from Glen Leasure given at John Campbell folk school in NC. I hope to learn from reading your discussions.

To the lady looking for eraseable pens, look in almost any quilting shop. They have pens that the ink will wipe off with a damp rag. Mostly blue, but if you look around you can find white ones.
John Lewis

I used silver pens for years. Silver pens from Ward and Kennedy, silver pens direct from Fisher, and silver gel pens. None of them were a guarantee to come off entirely. Not even on smooth, top coated leather, nevermind fleshside or naked top grain. Even with a light coat of Lexol over the silver ink...and let it sit for a few minutes before wiping off...sometimes some residue would remain. And the Lexol trick was the best solution we ever came up with.

Another thing about silver pens, even the pressurized Space pens, if you have any talc residue on your leather (used to outline stitching patterns)it will clog that pen up to the point that it will stop writing and never write again no matter what you do--heat, acetone, doesn't make any difference, once clgged it's dead.

In the past several years I have been using water colour pencils. They will come off with water.

Tight Stitches
DWFII--HCC Member

Thanks to all for your responses. I just found a place called Panhandle Leather in Texas and ordered one pen from them. If that doesn't work out I'll try some of the other ones mentioned, or the water colour pencils.

Looking for a place to sell hides. I'm on the coastso I've got acess to shark skin stingray and others. Just need an outlet to sell my carcus, don't like to waste anything, just so you'll know I eat the meat. Just email me I'll check my messages when I get back from fishing. thanks weasel

I have a Landis Naumakeg butI lack the mount for it. Does anyone have a bracket they are willing to part with? I want to install it on a Landis Jetset Finisher.
Paul 781 485-0511

Paul' check with Steve Mueller at Gateway shoe machine.

http://www.gatewayshoemachine.com/gateway/welcome.cfm

1-800-752-7897

"Landis Parts for the Brand"
Brian C. Thomas

looking for Landis curved Needle Stitcher in good condition. Prefer New England area.

Paul -
Thanks for the Singer documentation. I sent your stuff back by USmail. Don't have a working email for you yet.
Hope your shop is busy!
Lisa