Hi everyone nice to meet you. I'm new here to the forum and wanted to give a brief explanation before I ask the question.
I'm 4/5 months into my leather journey I'm very much enjoying the projects I've done to date. I like tooling, painting, airbrushing, dying and drawing etc. I'm looking to do thus on a full time basis so I'm in search of a cylinder arm sewing machine that's equivalent to the cobra cylinder arm sewing machine in the states. Is there anyone here that has good knowledge that could possibly recommend or have a chat before investing into a machine.
Many thanks.
Happy Tooling.
Gav
Hi Gav - I have a CowBoy/HighTex CB6900 - a mid-heavy duty cylinder arm that can convert to flat bed - I decided to go for this model because substantially cheaper than Juki models (the CB is a Juki clone) and my work is mainly around hand bags and smaller items with attention to detail. Perhaps my main advice would be to consider the work you do and assume the cylinder arm will make certain jobs far easier and faster with no detriment to quality but it is not able to do all the jobs. If you work with saddlery you may need to consider higher heavy duty models such as CB4500.
cheers
Luca
Hey Gav, I personally don't know. Hopefully someone on here does. However I believe 90% on here exclusively hand stitch their work, so you might not get a reply very soon. Could be worth posting this on a local leathercraft facebook group, maybe someone could let you take a look at theirs.