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A big thank's to Bob at Toledo Sewing for the outstanding customer service. He worked with me to get the shipping costs down and communication was/is top notch.

Well now I have one, it's in my shed/shop and all I need to do is learn to use it. I'm looking forward to a few hours on it this evening just learning what does what and why it does it.

No more sore fingers, no more stabbing myself with big needles when my work slips in the stitching horse. I'm feeling like a kid on Christmas, but I've always been giddy over new tools.

Fredo San Diego CA

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Congratulations!

Have fun and lets see what you can make now!

"Oh my God....I beseech thee grant me the grace to remain in Thy Presence; and to this end do Thou prosper me with Thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections" Brother Lawrence c.1614-1691

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Enjoy it, buddy.

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

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Congratulations Fred!  I’m certain you will enjoy using all your leather scraps to practice your sewing.  Don’t forget to wind a few bobbins in each thread size/color right away so you have them ready when you want to switch thread.

Gary

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Well I got it all bolted up, checked over everything twice and decided to run a few test stitches. 

It ran pretty good, I still need to figure out why the top belt is so tight, The only adjustment I can find is from the servo motor to the speed reduction. The top belt doesn't seem to have an adjustment? I'll give Bob at Toledo Sewing and ask him about that. The learning curve on this machine is a lot less steep than I feared. In a matter of minutes I was sewing scrap pieces of 10 together. I played with the stitch length adjustment. I also changed the speed a little, but kept it pretty slow to make sure I didn't sew my fingers together.

I'm looking forward to learning and using this bad boy.

Fredo San Diego CA

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Very nice! I spoke with Bob a couple of weeks ago and hopefully I will be purchasing one in a couple of weeks. I notice you have R/C cars hanging in behind your machine. What do you have and do you race or bash?

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Looks purdy good -- that's a bold stitch!  Might try needle one size smaller, just see if'n ya like the look.  And call Bob, ask him to drop half a dozen spare bobbins in the mail.. cheap, and very handy.

JLS  "Observation is 9/10 of the law."

IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.

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Awesome! I'm slowly grinding my way up to being able to afford one.

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Hello Fredo, I'm happy to see you got it up & sewing so quickly.The belt needs to be that tight  or it'll slip.The style of motor we use has a built-in brake so when your foot is off of the pedal it will be hard to turn the machine over,so if you push the pedal down 1/4" it releases it so you can turn the machine by hand.Also,when you stop & start sewing you always want to have the takeup lever(chrome piece you thread through & goes up & down when sewing) @ the highest point.

Have fun & Thanks for Buying a hard working Cowboy !!

Bob Kovar
Toledo Industrial Sewing Machine Sales Ltd.
3631 Marine Rd
Toledo,Ohio 43609
1-866-362-7397

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Congrat's Albob!

That is a really nice setup. I've watched so many Youtube video's of that machine working and I am just about to buy my first HD leather sewing machine myself.

I am sort of concerned about amortizing the costs involved though, trying to justify the idea that I will expand my market and sell more product and then it would be worth it. As it is now, with the low volume I sell, I can still painfully hand stitch, which never really looks professional, at least to me. :(

I'm going to buy a Cobra class 4 from 'Springfield Leather company,' since they are who I buy product from and they are very, very friendly, instructive and helpful to me, a 'newbee' with only about 9 months of experience.

Can't wait to see  your stuff!

Sam:)

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