Woodsman's Gear of the 20th Century Part 9

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in a pathfinder school back with another video in our series gear of the 20th century woodsman today we're going to talk about the CA Meijer stitching awl and this is not one of those romantic pieces of gear like a knife or an ax or a lantern or stove or something that you would think about as being a piece of camp kit necessarily but your ability to be able to repair your gear on the fly or manufacture a piece of kit if needed was something that made it very convenient and if you had a tool that was designed for that purpose that would make it even faster then you really had something and there's a couple different stitch all's on the market that came to market early in the 20th century one is the Stewart stitch all and the other one is they see a Myers and according to the websites the Meyer stitch all was patented in 1903 and according to the website the Stewart was patented in 1909 now when I did a patent search before I did this video the only patent I could find for the Meyers stitch shawl which is this one was from 1936 however I did see drawings of a stitch shawl that was exactly like this from Meijer but it also had an attachment you could plug into the Chuck on the front that was basically a stitch marking device like a wheel with teeth on it like you see leather workers used today that would mark all the stitching points on the leather and it plugged into the front of the Chuck now I didn't see that on the 1936 pattern so he may have come up with the idea in 1903 and just not patented anything until 1936 when he came out with this device I don't know to tell you truth but both of them are good tools I'm going to do a video separately on the Stewart stitch all hopefully from their factory in southern Indiana if I get the chance so today let's talk about the ca Meyers stitch all its components and how it's used stay with me back in the woods [Music]

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okay so here are the main components of this stitch all you had a metal bobbin here with wax thread on it you had a Chuck you had two needles one curved on straight a multi-tool and a screw to hold the bobbin on and all of that was stored back here that wasn't placed onto the tool while it was in use so what you would do is you would take this bobbin first of all and you would feed your thread up through the center here just like this and this is probably a little fiddly the first time around especially if you got fat fingers like I did and there's a channel on both sides there for that to ride in now once you had that threaded through you would basically slide your bobbin back in run your set screw through there line it up on the other side and then tighten it down with that provided tool just like that and now you've got a free wheeling spindle there with your cord coming out from inside the hall okay now what you would do is you would taking you and thread your needle that you're going to use and you've got a channel on this needle that the string travels through so you have to thread it from the channeled side like this so that that string lays inside that channel here so that once it's put down inside of the all itself those two channels will line up and it will allow that string to continuously feed through there then you would put your Chuck back on pull your thread out make sure everything's feeding right before you tighten it down and then go in with your chucking tool and give it a good twist to crank it down and then it should pull straight out just like that okay now you're always ready to be used and again all of the components for the all stool right in the back side of it just like this when they're not in use now let's talk about how to use this all so one of the beauties of this all is that you can repair gear that may be damaged and this is a knife sheath that all the stitching has come out of it's old Canadian belting knife sheath and you're going to punch it through the first hole and you're going to pull enough string through that you can complete your project on this side because this is going to be your locking string and then you're just going to come in here with your all and you can kind of gather things back up a little bit here to get a little closer to your work just like that you're going to feed into a hole and when you pull the needle back a little bit you're going to open up a loop there and that loop is what you're going to feed that

again through so that when you pull this back out like this it creates a locking stitch that you just pull tight and then you would just go on to the next hole pull it to create that loop put it in pull it down lock it go to the next hole pull it down push it through the loop just like that pull it in and lock it and you could sit there and repair something in no time at all that way and because this is basically an awl and a handle you haven't all that if you didn't already have holes in there where you're repairing a piece of gear and you're making a new piece of gear you can just as easily punch brand new holes in that leather as well using that all and just twisting it as you go to create a brand new piece of gear if that's what you had to do and I think when Meijer originally created this and the original drawings that I saw that had that extra piece that quote plugged into the front to mark stitches on leather I think that's kind of what he had in mind but this is a great piece of kit to carry and any gear that you've got for repair on the fly alright gosselin Dave Canterbury I self-reliance Outfitters in the pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me today for this quick video on a CA Myers stitch all again you can find these pretty much new and in the box in their original form with the metal bobbin on lots of places like eBay SC and things like that and you can buy them for not much more if any more than it would cost you to buy a brand new one off Amazon

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