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-   -   Vintage Giggles aka What are they smoking???? (https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage-antique-machine-enthusiasts-f22/vintage-giggles-aka-what-they-smoking-t174801.html)

SteveH 06-19-2013 09:35 AM

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb...825524341.html - "Needs some work...." $100

grant15clone 06-19-2013 09:44 AM

WTH Happened to that machine and cabinet??? WHAAAAAT??? The machine is GOLD! And the cabinet (what is left of it) ... It's GREEN!!! Is that MOSS??? WTH???
~G~

miriam 06-19-2013 09:58 AM


Originally Posted by grant15clone (Post 6131564)
WTH Happened to that machine and cabinet??? WHAAAAAT??? The machine is GOLD! And the cabinet (what is left of it) ... It's GREEN!!! Is that MOSS??? WTH???
~G~

maybe it came out of a giant badly maintained fish tank

grant15clone 06-19-2013 10:02 AM


Originally Posted by miriam (Post 6131578)
maybe it came out of a giant badly maintained fish tank

Or that swimming pool after a decade long soak. Green and gold? What sadistic life did this poor machine have to endure?
~G~

miriam 06-19-2013 10:04 AM

Maybe it was a prop for a haunted house

Mom3 06-19-2013 11:11 AM


Originally Posted by SteveH (Post 6131449)
x2 on this. If you want to take the machine off and bolt on a wooden table top, go for it. That can be undone. But cutting an uncommon treadle into this is just not cool.

BTW - I must say that it is one of the best looking mods I have seen.

Steve,

I realize the base is from a Climax sewing machine but I'm wondering if it might have been some type of an industrial machine made by Climax as that base looks very similar to the Singer 29-4 base: https://www.google.com/search?q=sing...w=1066&bih=516

SteveH 06-19-2013 01:23 PM

I have a 29-4 and I agree. The first ting I thought when i saw that is "what machine used a stepped deck like that..."

Monroe 06-19-2013 07:40 PM

I'm sure the base was modified- there's only a horizontal center support on the L side platform, and an odd vertical center support added. It does look a bit like the old telephone "gossip benches".

ArchaicArcane 06-19-2013 07:43 PM

The decals are in lovely shape. 99 in a cabinet.
At that price though, it's going to take some time to go, good thing they have a storage container...
http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-...AdIdZ496121923

miriam 06-20-2013 02:40 AM


Originally Posted by ArchaicArcane (Post 6132453)
The decals are in lovely shape. 99 in a cabinet.
At that price though, it's going to take some time to go, good thing they have a storage container...
http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-...AdIdZ496121923

If temperature is going from cool to hot, etc it isn't going to last long in the storage container.


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