Inovva, Juki, George, or sweet 16 (want to purchase)
12-26-2015, 01:19 PM
#21
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Why do you need a thread cutter on a quilting machine? How would you hide your thread tails as most machines cut the threads too short to hide.
I've had a Juki and found it to be a great machine, it wasn't the sitdown one you're looking at but a regular machine I had stretched to 18 inches to put on a frame. Well made machine in my book. I now have the large 26" Innova on a frame and again no thread cutter but the bobbin is at the front. Again don't know where the bobbin is located on the sitdown version. The Innova machine is another well made machine and their Customer Service is 24/7, 365 days a year. Check with the other machines' Customer Service as in my book that's part of how great the machine itself is.
I've had a Juki and found it to be a great machine, it wasn't the sitdown one you're looking at but a regular machine I had stretched to 18 inches to put on a frame. Well made machine in my book. I now have the large 26" Innova on a frame and again no thread cutter but the bobbin is at the front. Again don't know where the bobbin is located on the sitdown version. The Innova machine is another well made machine and their Customer Service is 24/7, 365 days a year. Check with the other machines' Customer Service as in my book that's part of how great the machine itself is.
12-26-2015, 05:59 PM
#22
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Outside St. Louis
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I have a regular Juki TL98QE and it is wonderful. I use a BabyLock Jane to fill the bobbin. It gets fuller than on the Juki. I have used it for 8 years and quilted lots and lots of quilts on both machines.
I would love a machine with a larger throat if I had more space.
I would love a machine with a larger throat if I had more space.
12-27-2015, 03:40 AM
#23
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Odessa, Washington
Posts: 1,872
I have an Innova, but it is a stand-up. One of the best things I found about my Innova is that I have free, 24/7/365 tech support because ABM (makers of Innova) started out with industrial quilting machines and when those go out, they need tech service now and Innova owners benefit from that. You really don't want a thread cutter on a longarm...things you may look for in a sewing machine are definitely not what you want in a quilting machine. The Innovas all take the larger M bobbins and you will quickly become adept at popping that bobbin case in without seeing the bobbin race. I have never seen any longarm that had an auto-thread option (I thought only some of the surgers had that option). Go and try as many longarm machines as you can and don't let them hurry you - and if you are physically able to use a stand-up longarm, try those out as well (I think they are much easier to use!). I know that Innova will customize their frames to fit your needs.
12-27-2015, 06:54 PM
#24
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Nevada
Posts: 6,958
I have an Innova, but it is a stand-up. One of the best things I found about my Innova is that I have free, 24/7/365 tech support because ABM (makers of Innova) started out with industrial quilting machines and when those go out, they need tech service now and Innova owners benefit from that. You really don't want a thread cutter on a longarm...things you may look for in a sewing machine are definitely not what you want in a quilting machine. The Innovas all take the larger M bobbins and you will quickly become adept at popping that bobbin case in without seeing the bobbin race. I have never seen any longarm that had an auto-thread option (I thought only some of the surgers had that option). Go and try as many longarm machines as you can and don't let them hurry you - and if you are physically able to use a stand-up longarm, try those out as well (I think they are much easier to use!). I know that Innova will customize their frames to fit your needs.
That said, I absolutely agree with Farm Quilter that you should try both stand up and sit down machines. Another thing to consider about sit-down machines is you have to push the quilt under the machine just like using a domestic machine, while on a "regular" longarm, you are moving the head of the machine around on the quilt.
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