OT- Anyone have a clue???

[Sawdust Jim]

I had an inquiry about making a case for a vintage saxophone. The original case was made of 3/8" plywoodand covered with leather. It, also, had a leather binding on the edges which was sewn on THROUGH the wood with a chain stitch. Anyone have an idea about the sort of machine originally used to sew on the binding?

Thanks,
Jim

[colemadjack]

The Singer 95 k machine was used to stitch thro wood and leather ,they used it in the UK to stitch door panels on the old Austin cars .
Once when using one I was distracted and stitched thro my finger (3 stitches including bone) it never slowed down.

[Dalton Masterson]

Now that just makes me cringe! 
Spine crawling sort of cringe.
I wonder if you could predrill the wood and use one of the handy speed stitchers for a chain stitch? That is if you dont have access to a machine like that.
DM (who's hands still hurt thinking about that)

[Sawdust Jim]

Thanks for the replies.

Colmadjack, that makes me shudder just thinking about it. I've worked in enough cabinet shops to know exactly how that feels.

Dalton, I had thought about pre drilling and hand stitching a case but to do so would be more time consuming than what it would be worth. I had thought it could be a good side-line. I am kind of a slow hand stitcher at about 2 min. per 1" so it would work out to nearly 4 hours for just the edge binding. If was just for myself, that would be a good way to go.
Thanks again,
  Jim

[Old Top]

Back when I was working for Uncle Sam as a parachute rigger they had one sewing machine that was used for the heavy webbing belts and slings, they demenstrated this machine by stiching together two 1/2 in pieces of plywood, this machine had a neddle like a 16 penny nail.  One of our less high wattage people sewed all eight fingers down on a sling web and had to be cut free to go to the infermary, we all laughed but he failed to see the humor in the sitituation.

Old Top

[Silver_Rings]

Gad, reading these post make my stomach quiver with the thought.

SR

[knucklehead]

Back when I was working for Uncle Sam as a parachute rigger they had one sewing machine that was used for the heavy webbing belts and slings, they demenstrated this machine by stiching together two 1/2 in pieces of plywood, this machine had a neddle like a 16 penny nail.  One of our less high wattage people sewed all eight fingers down on a sling web and had to be cut free to go to the infermary, we all laughed but he failed to see the humor in the sitituation.

Old Top

egad. wonder if that was his parachute?

yes that would be funny. bet it hurt like h@#$