psychonurse

it is beautiful. Congratulations

Wanabee Quiltin

The Singer Red Eye is my favorite of all machines. You have a beauty there. Wish I could help you but I do not have the knowledge. Ask Joe, he will know.
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GreyQ

What a lovely machine! I love my 1957 66, which is not as pretty as yours but a sweet machine for piecing. It sews through anything with the right needle.

oldtnquiltinglady

Your 66 is much more beautiful than mine, but I am so pleased to have found a Red Eye Singer that I just gave mine a cursory cleaning and am using it everyday. I LOVE it, I guess my grannie might have had one like it, I was too little to remember all the fancy work on the bed and body of the machine; all I know is, it feels like Grannie's machine when I sit down to pedal at it. Instantly transported back to about 1946 or '48, in her back bedroom with the ripening figs right outside the open window.

nanna-up-north

Congrats on your new find.... she's a beaut!

ThayerRags

Nice looking machine.

I too am in the midst of rehabilitating a 1913 Singer 66-1 Red Eye machine to mate up with the Singer 7-drawer treadle that I got at an auction a couple of weeks ago. I think they’ll make an attractive and useful unit together.

I’ve temporarily nicknamed the machine head “Log Cabin”. The machine appears to have not received very much use. There is very little surface blemishing, and the feed dog teeth are not worn down like most machines that I’ve seen of this age. They’re actually quite sharp to the touch.

However, the machine had not been de-linted at all prior to a generous oiling, apparently years and years ago (possibly oiled well to put into storage?), and the oil and lint now has the consistency of thick syrup. That’s why I nicknamed it what I did. Short for “Log Cabin Syrup”.....

CD in Oklahoma

wolph33

I love it-I would love to get a nice red eye some day