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[Giles]

Jaco,  If you can find someone with an old manual (non-electric) Singer, that will sew the patch on for you.  It is what I use here…....

[jacoavlu]

I assume it can be done by hand as well?
(with effort)
figured it'd be a fun little learning opportunity for me

[jimmy]

@jacoavlu:

I assume it can be done by hand as well?
(with effort)
figured it'd be a fun little learning opportunity for me

Yeah. Will pay punch the holes first with an awl or something like one

[Giles]

@jimmy:

@jacoavlu:

I assume it can be done by hand as well?
(with effort)
figured it'd be a fun little learning opportunity for me

Yeah. Will pay punch the holes first with an awl or something like one

And something like this wil help you a lot:

http://www.bowstock.co.uk/acatalog/Stitch_marking_wheels.html

[jacoavlu]

I was thinking
a hammer and small nail
a ruler
and sharpie…

[Giles]

rivet gun

[jacoavlu]

I don't even have a feckin thimble…
y'all think I got rivet guns and stitch markers and awls?

[nameness]

Don't people
in the Red States
Sew
Out of necessity?

[Finn666]

@Giles:

And something like this wil help you a lot:

http://www.bowstock.co.uk/acatalog/Stitch_marking_wheels.html

damn…thanks for the link G.!

[jacoavlu]

@nameness:

Don't people
in the Red States
Sew
Out of necessity?

really you would think right?
I married the one chick in Nebraska
that can't make me some homemade clothes

[ronaldlsh]

Finally something for myself after quite sometime.

Fresh from Japan!

IHT-1111 and IHWL

Pretty awesome brass hardware!

[madmonday]

solid pick-ups ron

[derivative666]

That rein is awesome

[derivative666]

Going through this thread I feel like a kid in a candy store I want everything.

[jimmy]

that will work too.

@jacoavlu:

I was thinking
a hammer and small nail
a ruler
and sharpie…

[ronaldlsh]

Thanks mon!

And yes derivative666, the rein is really solid…

[madmonday]

5 new joins in the past couple of months that i've been on the hunt for:

[jacoavlu]

nice nice
you not so unlucky as I thought…
18,12,19,6,32?

[rocket]

very nice lucky bas… 

[madmonday]

keep your eye on the prize(s)

the items i'm looking for from the back catalog has gotten much smaller 

still want smurf blue twenty or six & won't stop shaking trees until i get one 

all in all a pretty good run

*jaco never ceases to amaze me with his ability to spit out nomenclature on random items & general knowledge. so you say you aren't an OG