luvstitches

Yes, what a shame for such a beautiful machine. I kind of feel the same way when I see painted Featherweights.
Sorry if I offend anyone, just my opinion. (unless the machine is in dire need of paint)

Cari-in-Oly

Now for me, repaints are a whole other thing. Unless it's a rare or otherwise super special machine, I think repainting is quite acceptable. Unless you have no taste and do some weird off the wall dumb thing like that green machine on another thread a few days ago.

Cari

My Pieds

Hi,
New person here...I have been reading old threads for a while now and finally jumped in and became a member yesterday because I have soooooo many questions about my machines. (I have lots )

When I read this thread and clicked the link, as a lover of old cars, bikes, machines and such (grew up in a body shop) my heart sank that someone would do that to what I presume was a fully functional or repairable machine.

Then I remembered that in my research, I just read in the last day or two that in the 70's ??? there were Singer reproductions made in Taiwan and China which are said to be not as good as the originals and that the decals used were the popular sphinx and red eye .

Given that the "repurposed" one looks so pristine i'm going to live in a fantasy world where this one was a bad mechanical reproduction that couldn't do it's job by making a pretty straight stitch and decided to live it's remaining long years bringing light to those in need.

FG

J Miller

FG,

Welcome to the forum.

Nope, that machine was a nearly pristine original Singer Mdl 66-1, not a reproduction. Made in the early 19teens. Finding redeyes is not hard, they were made in the tens of thousands from 1909 I think to 1923 or there abouts. But ... finding one in that condition is not so easy.

Joe

My Pieds

Oh Nooooo

Joe my fantasy world crashed like the waves whipped by winds on the sandy shore......now how am I going to rebuild it?

Thanks for the welcome Joe

As I said I'm new and still trying to figure out my own little beauties.

FG

Champanier

Ah, FG, you are a wonderful person! I love the fantasy explanation (even though Joe's subsequent response burst my bubble ). I think the original link should have come with a disclaimer "WARNING - graphic images of sewing machine abuse! Not for sensitive viewers."


Seriously, taking beautiful, operational sewing machines and destroying them for any future funtion is sad. The red eyes are gorgeous and even if someone wanted to make a lamp, it could have been designed in a way that kept the sewing machine intact. I once saw a violin used in a floral centerpiece and went back after the event and spent hours picking off the hot glue they used to attach the flowers - at least that was salvageable.


Linda

Karen G

OMG, I want to cry!

Debbie C

Aargh! This turns my stomach!

grandmahoney

I personally would never do that to a sewing machine. Its a shame to destroy such a beautiful machine like that. But if I came across this at a garage sale I would buy it just to use it as a lamp and still enjoy its beauty. It would be a shame to destroy it completely and just throw it away.

Rodney

It could have been done just as well by mounting the post behind the machine without drilling into the body of the machine at all. There are a lot of different lamp parts out there including bent tubes if the light absolutely had to be directly above the machine. The person who did the conversion had the skills and the tools, just not the foresight or will to preserve the machine.
Instead it's been pinned to the board like a dead butterfly.
Rodney