NEW SHEARS OR ELECTRIC ROTARY CUTTER...?

They are cast so they would need braising wiht bras wire - there might be someone in my apartment block who can do that as most people here are trades people. The issue is - its at the very smallest point of the construction. There was a ***** in the casting for ever, but a drop onto tiled floor was just too much shock for it...

U knocked to gether an overcoat last week - it was my first wiht raglan sleeves and I had mno expectation of getting it right the first go so I mafe it from some 50/50 wool / nylon I have lods of. To my utter surprise it did work and I finished it, but like your trousers there is about 20 hand stitches in it.

Love the cloth. To be honest, I am over the whole hand-sewing thing.

When I went to the US, I was a puritan when it came to Handcraft.

Now that my eyesight is failing me, I am going back to the methods I learned in Ireland before departing for Savile Row.

My suits now have the integrity of Handcraft but without all the endless hand-stitches.

What I mean by that is I put in handsewing where it makes the difference, and I machine sew the rest.

Recently, I made a tailcoat for Lucy for my wedding. And I did the linings all by machine. I wasn't even sure if I could do it when I started, but the end product was as good as any hand-felled one.

Thats really interesting actually - I just bought some 60's and 70's size super sharps for the sewing machine to see how they do on linings. Im normally using 90's or 100's for the heavy cloth I tend to sew and they often pull threads in the lining and make it look amature. Also I prefer machine zig zag'd canvases, they are thinner and stiffer.

Cloth - there is a guy here in Bulgaria with 4 garrages full of random cloth he bought at bacrupsyt sale. Its €4 per meter and I got 15m of hand woven harris tweed along aoth about 60m or other tweeds.