Wow!!! Really useful and well designed aluminum guide!! Nice chunk of aluminum and I would like to have fabricator friends!
Later I will talk about magnets to do something like that
I manufactured mine right after practicing the first days with the machine, given that I intended to make some leather belts for me and I was sure that I was not going to be able to sew straight...
I had no idea that I could purchase a seam allowance guide, and when I saw some threads in the machine I thought that I could do something useful using them.
I simply welded some steel plates leaving some adjustability so that the guide can adjusted at left or right, and covered in leather the two bolts that hold it, so that they feel nicer on the fingers:
I thought that I would paint it, but I still have not done it, so it is beginning to look at little rusted!!
Some months after doing it, I saw that sailrite sold a magnetic one, and I thought about doing something similar using some strong magnets as the ones that we can find in old hard disk drives, but I have not still find time to do it!!
The problem that I saw if I manufactured using strong magnets is that I read that they could affect the bobbin if we placed them close to it, but doing it as Revv Up has fabricated his, it would not be a problem
@BigRig Yes, the machine works very smoothly (we will see in some years!!
) I did not backstitch to lock the stitch because I did not want the backstitch to be seen, so I tied both ends of the thread with a little bit of contact cement