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The prototype stitching horse is assembled
and everything works like I planned/hoped it would.





(lots more pictures HERE.... )

Contact me if you are interested in one.....

thanks in advance!!

Bump

got positive feedback ( finally )

Any interest in these?

Conal,

What's the price for one?

Aonghus wrote:Conal,

What's the price for one?

PM'd

Baron Conal wrote:

Aonghus wrote:Conal,

What's the price for one?

PM'd

Dude.... WHY?

Seriously. I don't have a use for one, but "are you interested in this?" is kinda loaded without a price tag.

For free? HELL YES! I'd take up more leather stitching at that price, if not, it could sit in the garage till I found someone who needed it.

For a ga-bazillion dollars? Hell no! I ain't got dat much.

That said...

it looks well made. I don't have a clue what to look for in one, but there are features I like on yours.

The parts that I would want to be metal are.

The tensioning system looks to be pretty infinitely adjustable.

It appears that the 'weakest link' as it were would be the leather strap. From what I can see it looks like you've made that easily replaceable by the end user.

There are however, no curvy bowl parts in the seat for my flabby butt cheeks. -10 points for that.

mattmaus wrote:

Baron Conal wrote:

Aonghus wrote:Conal,

What's the price for one?

PM'd

Dude.... WHY?

Seriously. I don't have a use for one, but "are you interested in this?" is kinda loaded without a price tag.

I've taken to not setting prices in advance because there
is more fluctuation than most realize in the price of wood

I can adjust for that without having to add the highest
possible material cost in right form the begining.

I've had the material for the fauldstols I make change enough
to cut my profit in half on them when I quote without checking
material costs first

Baron Conal,

I can't see the picures from work but is it possible to build a stitching horse that converts into a draw-horse for shaving spokes (or rattan) with a draw-knife?

Sean

Baron Conal wrote:

mattmaus wrote:

Baron Conal wrote:

Aonghus wrote:Conal,

What's the price for one?

PM'd

Dude.... WHY?

Seriously. I don't have a use for one, but "are you interested in this?" is kinda loaded without a price tag.

I've taken to not setting prices in advance because there
is more fluctuation than most realize in the price of wood

I can adjust for that without having to add the highest
possible material cost in right form the begining.

I've had the material for the fauldstols I make change enough
to cut my profit in half on them when I quote without checking
material costs first

Yup.

"But you only charged person Y X dollars for one two years ago! Why is my cost so much higher?"

"Well, for starters, theirs was in red oak, yours is in walnut. For seconders, that "little detail" you wanted added took me six hours to accomplish. And for thirders, the hardware and electricity required to build it went up by 20% since the last time. Now, do you want it? Or should I sell it to someone else?"

*sigh*

Sean Powell wrote:Baron Conal,

I can't see the picures from work but is it possible to build a stitching horse that converts into a draw-horse for shaving spokes (or rattan) with a draw-knife?

Sean

Not really..... You could MAYBE make one long enough so that
you could have one function on each end....

( the clamp for the stitching horse is angled and the clamp
for the draw horse is not.... )

which would probably be as long as one of each set end
to end.....

but at that point you would probably be better served by having
a draw-horse and a totally separate stitching horse....

Baron Conal wrote:

Sean Powell wrote:Baron Conal,

I can't see the picures from work but is it possible to build a stitching horse that converts into a draw-horse for shaving spokes (or rattan) with a draw-knife?

Sean

Not really..... You could MAYBE make one long enough so that
you could have one function on each end....

( the clamp for the stitching horse is angled and the clamp
for the draw horse is not.... )

which would probably be as long as one of each set end
to end.....

but at that point you would probably be better served by having
a draw-horse and a totally separate stitching horse....

Hmmm.. how bout if you set a hardy-hole style mortise in the basic base plate, and had the foot bar configured to either pull on the strap for the stitching horse "hardy" or pull down on the T bar for the drawhorse?

It might require, say, using a sliding wedge to hold the stitching horse jaws in (from below the seat plate).

Just wingin ideas out there.. that's how I'd design one if I was to build something that did both.

Maeryk wrote:
Just wingin ideas out there.. that's how I'd design one if I was to build something that did both.

My experience with stuff designed like that is it never
does either job as well as the two things that you are
trying to combine do them in the first place....

Besides with the extra work it would probably cost as much
as getting a stitching horse and a draw horse would separately.



Look here for more pictures of the horse....

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=89212

I AM DEFINATELY INTERESTED!!! I WAS going to build one, but seeing you have already done so.....How much????

konr