Christmas came early or late here at the Fox Ranch. I got my new Leather sewing machine yesterday, a cowboy 4500 assembled it and started sewing up A bunch of leather projects that I have been working on ,Hand sewing I real slow. Should have bought one before Had a singer patch machine before the fire. There are thing that you cant do with it, you cannot sew sideways like a patch machine. but I can live with that Put a vest, two Holsters part of a saddle flat plat rigging together. I can sew as light as 4 thickness of newspaper - 3 thickness of 10 OZ leather. I spent most of last night sewing and learning about the machine. I am Impressed right out of the box sewing not a bunch of adjustments to do. Sometimes it don't take a lot to impress me. Thank you all for posting and reading these post and thank you Joe for the site, It is still the best one yet. Wish Dale and Jawaller could be on here as I miss the wisdom and post.