MLworks Report post Posted June 28, 2015 I started fooling around with leather after retirement about a year ago and really enjoy working on gun holsters, mag holsters, knife sheaths and pouches. All my projects I've been hand stitching, but now have been experiencing trigger finger in my thumb and making it very difficult to hand sew. So now I'll be ordering a industrial machine sometime this week. I've been going back and forth on several of the heavy stitchers and finally decided on the cowboy 4500, I hope this will be a good choice. I will also order a couple of 346 and 277 thread I'm hoping to somewhat duplicate the hand sewn look with this machine and thread. Been reading and watching all the material that I can about these 441 clones on how they operate and to familiarize myself on threading and tension adjustments. As I've had read some folks have had issues with their stitches. I'm wanting the thread to look similar to that of hand sewing is this possible with this machine? Here are a few pics of my projects. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robertmeco Report post Posted June 28, 2015 Welcome to the forum glad to have you join us. If you dont live to far from San Antonio your are welcome to come buy and try sewing on my Cobra 4. Give me a call 210-626-2370 Robert Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
King's X Report post Posted June 29, 2015 Hello and welcome to the forum! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MLworks Report post Posted July 2, 2015 Really appreciate the welcome guys and Robert, thanks for invite to sew on your machine but way too busy to make a road trip right now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites