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Another First Saddle Build Thread

What saddle should I try to build first?

  • Overwatch Outdoors, Transformer

    Votes: 5 17.2%

  • 2020 Aerohunter, Flex

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pre 2020 OG Aerohunter Flex

    Votes: 4 13.8%

  • Latitude Classic

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • We don't care, just make a saddle already

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • You better go ahead and make every saddle or you'll never be content

    Votes: 12 41.4%
  • Total voters
    29
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Ball park str calc, playing with some lengths and number of lines in my zig zag before I get to work. Ultimately I think I’ll go with 9x 7” lines for 63ins of stitches. I think most I’ve seen do 6” over lap but I’m doing 8 to give myself more room to work with.


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Ball park str calc, playing with some lengths and number of lines in my zig zag before I get to work. Ultimately I think I’ll go with 9x 7” lines for 63ins of stitches. I think most I’ve seen do 6” over lap but I’m doing 8 to give myself more room to work with.


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I’m using 8 stitches per in but may adjust that depending. I need to check what my machine is doing.


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gcr0003 said:
I’m using 8 stitches per in but may adjust that depending. I need to check what my machine is doing.


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Looking good. What machine are you sewing with? Curious, can it handle v92 or similar?
 
I’m using a singer 241-11, it’s an industrial machine however it’s a small garmet industrial machine. I haven’t tried anything larger, and I can’t remember the needle size I have now. 18 I think, is that a needle size?


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gcr0003 said:
I’m using a singer 241-11, it’s an industrial machine however it’s a small garmet industrial machine. I haven’t tried anything larger, and I can’t remember the needle size I have now. 18 I think, is that a needle size?


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Yes, thats a needle size. Im not an expert, so maybe others can chime in, but I wouldnt use terra 40 for weight bearing. I beleive I was able to use a size 18 to sew v92. Ill double check.
 
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Doesn’t really matter the thread strength so long as you calculate the overall strength. Even just binding the ends doesn’t take into account all the threads binding the chassis to the panel. I might try a thicker thread in the future but I’m confident with what I got right now.

That said I am missing plastic buckles from rocky wood for the adjusters so I could pick up some thicker thread along with those buckles.


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I could never stay within the boundary while coloring as a kid so I’m a trace it out type a guy.


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I did the same thing. Looking good! Keep the updates coming.
 
Plugging away at it. We will see how frustrated I get with this grosgrain
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Plugging away at it. We will see how frustrated I get with this grosgrain
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Sew your panels together before putting on the grosgrain. Sausage looks great! Home made?
 
jhunter13 said:
Sew your panels together before putting on the grosgrain. Sausage looks great! Home made?
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Yea it’s homemade venison sausage. I threw it on the grill as I was smoking a pork butt. It tastes so much better with the smoke flavor.

Yea I was thinking either sew or glue the panels together.
 
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What’s the tapered end measurement on the panels ?


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I did 6” tapered down to 4” with 3/4” radii on the corners. It might be more taper then needed I’m not sure. I set the frame against it like @jhunter13 said and let it kind of match the natural taper back to the drings. I put clamps on each end at the 4” mark and then bent a metal ruler up to the center 6” mark then drew a parabola from one corner to the other. This was a method @always89y showed in one of his videos and it works like a charm.


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Oh no! I just realized the one of my bent d-rings is oriented in instead of out :/ snuck by me despite checking and rechecking,


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sdoyle1 said:
If you do much binding an edge binder is well worth the money spent.


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Once I get a compound walking foot machine I’ll likely see if I can’t put a binder foot on this machine. Since it is an industrial small garmet machine I think it would do really well with edge binding.


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Debating on ruining this perfectly good chassis to fix the d-ring orientation… two panels down.

So you connect the belt the same time you connect the panels? I’m thinking now that I might connect the belt when I connect the lineman’s belt? Thoughts @jhunter13 ?


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