Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
02-27-2012, 11:58 AM
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Can I join this group?
I should get my "Girls" out some day and take a 'family' photo. I have the following:
29-4 (called the "Boot Patcher" - treadle and electric, a cast iron beauty! Sample photos of this model are here: http://tinyurl.com/7h6b6ro )
66 (a "Red Eye" in a coffin case)
66-16
221-1
237
257
301A
401A
15 (hand crank)
15-91
99 (two of them - they are so cute - they are my 'twins'!)
Plus a couple more stored elsewhere that I haven't inventoried yet.
Shari
I should get my "Girls" out some day and take a 'family' photo. I have the following:
29-4 (called the "Boot Patcher" - treadle and electric, a cast iron beauty! Sample photos of this model are here: http://tinyurl.com/7h6b6ro )
66 (a "Red Eye" in a coffin case)
66-16
221-1
237
257
301A
401A
15 (hand crank)
15-91
99 (two of them - they are so cute - they are my 'twins'!)
Plus a couple more stored elsewhere that I haven't inventoried yet.
Shari
02-27-2012, 12:08 PM
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Mom3 you might as well hang out
can we get on the short bus and come to your house to play???
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some of us are a bit crazy.........
some of us are a bit crazy.........
can we get on the short bus and come to your house to play???
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02-27-2012, 12:08 PM
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Shari,
Welcome! Looks like you have a great start in the world of sewing machine collecting. You'll love it here. It's a very friendly and supporting group. (actually very enabling) VBG
Cathy
Welcome! Looks like you have a great start in the world of sewing machine collecting. You'll love it here. It's a very friendly and supporting group. (actually very enabling) VBG
Cathy
Can I join this group?
I should get my "Girls" out some day and take a 'family' photo. I have the following:
29-4 (called the "Boot Patcher" - treadle and electric, a cast iron beauty! Sample photos of this model are here: http://tinyurl.com/7h6b6ro )
66 (a "Red Eye" in a coffin case)
66-16
221-1
237
257
301A
401A
15 (hand crank)
15-91
99 (two of them - they are so cute - they are my 'twins'!)
Plus a couple more stored elsewhere that I haven't inventoried yet.
Shari
I should get my "Girls" out some day and take a 'family' photo. I have the following:
29-4 (called the "Boot Patcher" - treadle and electric, a cast iron beauty! Sample photos of this model are here: http://tinyurl.com/7h6b6ro )
66 (a "Red Eye" in a coffin case)
66-16
221-1
237
257
301A
401A
15 (hand crank)
15-91
99 (two of them - they are so cute - they are my 'twins'!)
Plus a couple more stored elsewhere that I haven't inventoried yet.
Shari
02-27-2012, 12:13 PM
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Over in the thread about quilting with vintage machines someone posted a photo of there 201K. I noticed right off just how similar my SEWMOR 404 was to that machine externally.
I wonder if it's at all similar internally? I'll have to peak up under it's bottom and see what all the gizmos look like. Perhaps I should put a 66 and the SEWMOR next to each other and compare them.
At any rate that SEWMOR is one of the quietest sewing machines we have. I think I'll keep it.
Joe
I wonder if it's at all similar internally? I'll have to peak up under it's bottom and see what all the gizmos look like. Perhaps I should put a 66 and the SEWMOR next to each other and compare them.
At any rate that SEWMOR is one of the quietest sewing machines we have. I think I'll keep it.
Joe
02-27-2012, 12:35 PM
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Hi Shari!! Welcome to Wacky World!! 
Sounds like you've an excellent start....and a few that are on my wishlist!
Sounds like you've an excellent start....and a few that are on my wishlist!
02-27-2012, 12:40 PM
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in collecting vintage Singers: I want to be able to leave a straight stitch and a zig-zag machine to each of our grand-kids when I pass away. Given the number of grand-kids we have I have to 'collect' a few more. This summer I plan on teaching a few of the g-kids how to use my Singers, afterall, it doesn't do any good to inherit a machine that you don't know how to operate. Actually, that's how I get my machines: Someone was given one on the passing of a relative and they don't sew and don't know how to use the machine. In a way that situation is very sad...
BTW I'm not just collecting, I am teaching myself how to repair them also. I probably should not use the term 'repair' with a vintage Singer - they are built like the Rock of Gibraltar - it is more of a clean up, grease & oil thing that I am doing.
We don't travel a lot but I'm thinking of putting some feelers out in the areas we do go to and see if I can pick up some pin money doing service work on the older Singers. Some of the smaller towns we go to do not have any service techs locally.
Shari
02-27-2012, 12:52 PM
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02-27-2012, 01:02 PM
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I am having a lot of trouble posting to the board--it seems to eat my posts. Apologies if this turns up twice. At any rate, Singer's first model 15 was the Improved Family, which I believe was first manufactured in the early to mid 1880's. I'd have to look it up to know for sure. I have one of the early finger-pinchers (bobbin case is a bit touchy), but haven't sewn on it in a while.
Monica, thanks for the thought about getting the Pfaff for me! I appreciate it.
You know you are so funny! You make me think! Anyway, I really doubt if that Pfaff has anything to do with Singer's actual class 15 machines. Given that the Pfaff was made in 1912 way before the 15 clones were popping up everywhere, I doubt it is a clone of any type, but who knows? My thoughts on the whole clone thing is that Singer, who had a reputation for putting all the competition out of business with their lawsuits, would never have allowed Pfaff to copy one of their machines. Singer was not nice back then! We all know the reason the 15 clones all came about after WW2 was because we gave the Japanese the design specs to help out their economy after we bombed them. It would actually be funny if Pfaff got by with copying Singer's Model 15, as Singer put so many good companies out of business who even came close to copying any of their patents. I still wonder why, though, the Pfaff resembles a 15, but it certainly wasn't because the Japanese were making 15's in 1912 - they started those 15's much much later. Nice theory though - makes us think!
Nancy
You know you are so funny! You make me think! Anyway, I really doubt if that Pfaff has anything to do with Singer's actual class 15 machines. Given that the Pfaff was made in 1912 way before the 15 clones were popping up everywhere, I doubt it is a clone of any type, but who knows? My thoughts on the whole clone thing is that Singer, who had a reputation for putting all the competition out of business with their lawsuits, would never have allowed Pfaff to copy one of their machines. Singer was not nice back then! We all know the reason the 15 clones all came about after WW2 was because we gave the Japanese the design specs to help out their economy after we bombed them. It would actually be funny if Pfaff got by with copying Singer's Model 15, as Singer put so many good companies out of business who even came close to copying any of their patents. I still wonder why, though, the Pfaff resembles a 15, but it certainly wasn't because the Japanese were making 15's in 1912 - they started those 15's much much later. Nice theory though - makes us think!
Nancy
02-27-2012, 02:04 PM
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I am having a lot of trouble posting to the board--it seems to eat my posts. Apologies if this turns up twice. At any rate, Singer's first model 15 was the Improved Family, which I believe was first manufactured in the early to mid 1880's. I'd have to look it up to know for sure. I have one of the early finger-pinchers (bobbin case is a bit touchy), but haven't sewn on it in a while.
Nancy, do you know the age of that machine that you want? I was wondering if the machine is younger than the treadle. Someone decided to switch machine heads at one time, an updating.
02-27-2012, 02:06 PM
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So, most likely the Germans, with their Pfaff (the one Nancy is interested in), did copy the look of the Singer 15.
Nancy, do you know the age of that machine that you want? I was wondering if the machine is younger than the treadle. Someone decided to switch machine heads at one time, an updating.
Nancy, do you know the age of that machine that you want? I was wondering if the machine is younger than the treadle. Someone decided to switch machine heads at one time, an updating.
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