I bought an old Singer from a guy in Fairfax (just up the road) Virginia, and met his mom, long story, the Singer was in bad shape. Anyway, I bought it for the table. The son was nice but tried desperately to sell me his Husgvarna machine that he said he made Sails with. It was not a HD machine though, and I really did not need another machine.
Lovely story Robbie. I am bringing two old Singers to a sewing shop in Manassas Virginia later this week, down sizing and I really never liked the machines. I have the cabinets though hahaha
I once bought a very old singer treadle machine. No motor, it had all the extra feet and several spare leather belts. We tried it out and had some fun learning how to use it. Later we sold it to an Amish family. My Sailrite has a monster wheel that increases torque for going through many layers and sewing leather. It also has are moveable handle on the Flywheel to hand crank if you need to. You should check out their website: https://www.sailrite.com/ Mine is an Ultrafeed LSZ. My wife used 2 Berninas. At times she had an employee to help with the sewing, but originally wanted a spare in case her machine had to go in for service.
I bought an old Singer from a guy in Fairfax (just up the road) Virginia, and met his mom, long story, the Singer was in bad shape. Anyway, I bought it for the table. The son was nice but tried desperately to sell me his Husgvarna machine that he said he made Sails with. It was not a HD machine though, and I really did not need another machine.
Lovely story Robbie. I am bringing two old Singers to a sewing shop in Manassas Virginia later this week, down sizing and I really never liked the machines. I have the cabinets though hahaha
I once bought a very old singer treadle machine. No motor, it had all the extra feet and several spare leather belts. We tried it out and had some fun learning how to use it. Later we sold it to an Amish family. My Sailrite has a monster wheel that increases torque for going through many layers and sewing leather. It also has are moveable handle on the Flywheel to hand crank if you need to. You should check out their website: https://www.sailrite.com/ Mine is an Ultrafeed LSZ. My wife used 2 Berninas. At times she had an employee to help with the sewing, but originally wanted a spare in case her machine had to go in for service.
oh that is a very cool machine. Nice, heavy duty indeed
I sew on a Singer 301A and a Singer 316G regularly
I still have three featherweights too.....
Mine is the blue model that does both straight stitch and zig zag.