Will Leather Sewing Machines Ever Go High-Tech?

[Hardrada]

Only Vetron I've known:

 

How did they manage not to be sued by Origin?

Edited March 2, 2020 by Hardrada

[Kcstott]

On 2/29/2020 at 11:30 AM, keithski122 said:

Vetron are getting pretty high tech.

 

I feel like John Carter looking at this thing price tag has to be $10K or more nope just over $6K USD

Edited March 4, 2020 by Kcstott

[NewfoundlandLaw]

2 hours ago, Kcstott said:

I feel like John Carter looking at this thing price tag has to be $10K or more nope just over $6K USD

Being a Canadian who recently purchased a Cobra Class 4, that price seems reasonable. (Shipping, Custom's and the weak Canadian Dollar really adds up.)

 

I envy Americans when it comes to these purchases. 

[dikman]

You and me both, brother.

[Constabulary]

On 3/2/2020 at 10:43 PM, nstarleather said:

This one always blows me away: 

 

 It does but I think a skilled seamstress is faster. And you still need someone in front of the machine (whom you have to pay) who "feeds" the machine. Maybe you have less output rejects with this machine - maybe not... However - still a very impressive machine.

[Kcstott]

4 hours ago, NewfoundlandLaw said:

Being a Canadian who recently purchased a Cobra Class 4, that price seems reasonable. (Shipping, Custom's and the weak Canadian Dollar really adds up.)

 

I envy Americans when it comes to these purchases. 

That’s still more money than I care to spend anytime soon. But you never know. 
A few years ago I was looking at a tippmann boss. I just skipped over that all together and bought a cobra class four. 
I couldn’t be more happy with that machine. 

[chrisash]

As relatively small time bit players, Leatherworker companies need to put machine costs into perspective, Larger companies feel nothing about spending £20-30k on buying a car for the sales rep and changing it for a new one after say 3 years, I spent £44K on a Barudan embroidery machine (7 colour 12 head) in 1990 and another 6 head about a year later at not that much lower cost. 

Chinese companies are some of the worlds leaders in using high tech machines to help keep skilled labour costs down even though their labour is still far cheaper than many other countries 

 

[Kcstott]

3 hours ago, nstarleather said:

You found a price?  That's better than I could do...where'd you find pricing?

 

My Brother Automated stitcher cost around $25K new 20 years ago...so $6k is incredibly reasonable considering the capability.

 

I just googled it asking for a cost. It popped up at 450,000 Indian rupiahs

had to convert that to USD. 
do that’s what the machine is going for in India and tha may not translate to a North American price

[NewfoundlandLaw]

12 hours ago, Kcstott said:

That’s still more money than I care to spend anytime soon. But you never know. 
A few years ago I was looking at a tippmann boss. I just skipped over that all together and bought a cobra class four. 
I couldn’t be more happy with that machine. 

I did the exact same thing. 

 

I have to say that I am 100% happy with both my Cobra Class 4 and TechSew 2750 Pro. Awesome machines backed by awesome companies. 

[sbrownn]

On 3/4/2020 at 11:41 AM, NewfoundlandLaw said:

I did the exact same thing. 

 

I have to say that I am 100% happy with both my Cobra Class 4 and TechSew 2750 Pro. Awesome machines backed by awesome companies. 

That seems like a nice combination.