I too bought my 3000 about four months ago. I had an old singer flatbed and a Mercury 120-1 cylinder arm. Just getting into leather not knowing what I was really needing I bought these two machines, WRONG!!! After many problems w/them causing me not to enjoy the leather work as much. I called up Steve at Artisan, talk about what I was trying to do and sent him some pics of a couple of bobber seats I had hand sewn. He then introduced me to the toro 3000, man was he right. I am not the best at leather or sewing but the 3000 is just an amazing machine and hasn't even thought about letting me down yet. Don't think I will ever need another machine but if I happen to, there won't be any need to look around. I'm sold for life on Artisan for one, Quality of their machine and two which is very important to me, The Service!! Thanks again to Artisan and LW,
James