Why would someone do this:<
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My feelings exactly.
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That machine will sew through a 1" stack of leather, which by most measures would be very rigid indeed.
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Steve,
I agree! I don't know of ANY sewing machine that was intended to sew through plywood! I cannot understand why anyone would want to sew plywood! As my Mom used to say, God rest her soul, stupidity grows!
Jeanette
I agree! I don't know of ANY sewing machine that was intended to sew through plywood! I cannot understand why anyone would want to sew plywood! As my Mom used to say, God rest her soul, stupidity grows!
Jeanette
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Here is a link to an article about some folks that sew wood into furniture.
http://materia.nl/article/sewing-wood/
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Leather, even a thick stack, isn't rigid like plywood. The individual leather fibers will flex enough to get out of the way for the needle to pass thru. Wood fibers, whether solid or plywood, don't have that same degree of flexibility. Instead of parting around the needle, the needle is essentially breaking thru it.
Maybe somewhere there is an application where wood needs to be sewn but I can't think of it.
I'm pretty sure that while the machine can handle thick leather all day every day, sewing plywood would soon do serious harm to the machine.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Rodney
Maybe somewhere there is an application where wood needs to be sewn but I can't think of it.
I'm pretty sure that while the machine can handle thick leather all day every day, sewing plywood would soon do serious harm to the machine.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Rodney
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