Thread: Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell

[quote=vintagemotif][quote=cabbagepatchkid]

Originally Posted by purplefiend

Originally Posted by vintagemotif

Originally Posted by deplaylady

Originally Posted by jljack

Originally Posted by vintagemotif

If my husband wouldn't kill me (and if I had the money and space) after buying the featherweight and the 99, I would love to have this! The case is really cool and it would be neat to have a treadle!

http://rochester.craigslist.org/atq/2409565933.html

Pretty cabinet and machine! The decals on the machine is Tiffany or Gingerbread.

The machine is a Singer 15-30, beautiful machine & OMG the parlor cabinet is to die for!

I have that same cabinet but mine is really dark and I don't like it but I do like the one in the ad. I wonder if it's possible to lighten a darkened cabinet by removing the shellac/varnish.

Numerous cabinets seem to have the dark varnish/shellac on them. I too wonder if removing the shellac/varnish would make a big difference. I sanded one of my cabinets down and just used tung oil on it to finish it, but it is still dark looking.

This cabinet is gorgeous!

Furniture Doctor by George Grotz I think has info how to fix up the shellac - if not it is a pretty good read

Originally Posted by Lori Peercy

Originally Posted by vintagemotif

Originally Posted by Miz Johnny

Originally Posted by Lori Peercy

. . . It came with a drawer full of attatchments.

Lucky you! Attachments can be hard to find. I love my 9W. Beautiful stitching, easy to treadle. Any of the Wheeler and Wilson type machines are fabulous to sew on. Cabinet is nice, too!!
The "sad" one that follows will clean up and sew like a dream. You'll be surprised.

Yes, Miz Johnny, I know that it can be cleaned up and it too will sew beautifully! I just need to get a couple of missing parts for it, which I haven't done yet. This was my free machine in the badly worn cabinet with the treadle that treadles very smoothly. I went for the free treadle for a different facelift project, and the surprise in the cabinet was this Singer. Again the machine found me! One day it will work too.

Here is a picture of the attatchments. Does anyone know what the attatchments are for or what they do? The second picture is of a wooden box a friend gave me a long time ago, I collect boxes. I knew they were attatchments for a sewing machine, but I never knew that it went to a vintage Singer sewing machine. I think it is called a Singer puzzle box. How do I find out if they will work on my Singer 9w? I forgot to mention that I paid $30 for the machine and cabinet, it needs a belt.

i just left this site and you can down load pics of many boxes of how they were from the factory.
http://www.thesewbox.com/catalog/ite...14/8821984.htm

Keep in mind with these old cabinets that if there's no reason to refinish, then removing patina removes value... that being said, it's yours, do what you want with it! ;) :)

Originally Posted by shelburn

miz Johnny, That looks like my shuttle but I still don't know how to thread it. I learned to sew on a new home shuttle but the bobbin loaded from the top into the cylinder and was fairly quick and easy to thread. But this one puzzles me. I have had this machine tucked away for thirty-five years and got interested in getting it to work from this thread.
I certainly appreciate knowing more about it. Thanks for what information you have given me already.

Take a look at page 8 of this manual and see if it helps any at all:

http://ismacs.net/fristerandrossman/...se-shuttle.pdf

Originally Posted by Lori Peercy

Here is a picture of the attatchments. Does anyone know what the attatchments are for or what they do? The second picture is of a wooden box a friend gave me a long time ago, I collect boxes. I knew they were attatchments for a sewing machine, but I never knew that it went to a vintage Singer sewing machine. I think it is called a Singer puzzle box. How do I find out if they will work on my Singer 9w? I forgot to mention that I paid $30 for the machine and cabinet, it needs a belt.

Lori, here are your attachments with some comments.

Numbers 1-4 (and maybe 5, I can't see the clamp fixture well enough) are all for your Singer 9W.
1. is part of an adjustable hemmer, I think the other part of it is laying in front of #5.

2. is a gathering foot....it makes a small or puckered gather at the seam line.

3&4 are too difficult for me to see to be able to tell you for sure what they are.

5. If this has the same kind of "shank" on it as 1-4, then it's also for your 9W, and is a pintucker.

6. I hope these are Boye 18 needles, they'd be for the 9W if they are, and are getting to be scarce as hen's teeth!

7. These feet look like top clamps to me, and would be for a White, National, Davis, New Home, Standard, Domestic, Kenmore, or Free Westinghouse. There are 12 different widths of slots in 1909, according to the Sewing Machine Attachment Handbook that was recommended by someone else...a great little book to have!! :)

8&9 are rufflers, and I can't tell from the photo what they fit. The piece just to the left of 8 & 9 looks like it may be the missing piece of #1, the adjustable hemmer.

10. Is a quilting bar. It attaches to a quilting foot so that you can stitch lines an even distance apart.

Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by sew wishful

Originally Posted by LAQUITA

Hello,
I am new to the group, as of today I have a "new' to me Mocha colored Singer 301. She's a beauty and I only paid $50.00 for her off CL. In original case original foot controller.

I am so in want of this machine!! I love it! Lucky you!!

Randa, come over to my country side. There is a black 301 for $110! :-D

http://kpr.craigslist.org/atq/2426926820.html

Originally Posted by SewExtreme

Originally Posted by sew wishful

Originally Posted by LAQUITA

Hello,
I am new to the group, as of today I have a "new' to me Mocha colored Singer 301. She's a beauty and I only paid $50.00 for her off CL. In original case original foot controller.

I am so in want of this machine!! I love it! Lucky you!!

Randa, come over to my country side. There is a black 301 for $110! :-D

http://kpr.craigslist.org/atq/2426926820.html

OMG!!! What do you suppose it would cost to ship it?? I'm in lust!!! LOL!

I( cant find info on Marmon sewing machine ? ever heard of this? wants150. for it Rochester mn craigs list

[quote=vintagemotif][quote=deplaylady]

Originally Posted by jljack

Originally Posted by vintagemotif

If my husband wouldn't kill me (and if I had the money and space) after buying the featherweight and the 99, I would love to have this! The case is really cool and it would be neat to have a treadle!

http://rochester.craigslist.org/atq/2409565933.html

Pretty cabinet and machine! The decals on the machine is Tiffany or Gingerbread.

That is a beautiful cabinet! I would love to have one like that sometime!

Hello Miz Johnny
That is my shuttle!!!! Thank you ever so much!! That is just what I was looking for. I am sooooo happy. Now to get home and see if I can get the machine to sew. Everything runs as smmothly as can be. I think all I have to get right is the tensions and I am going to print out that manual.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you all!!! Shelia