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

Originally Posted by Lostn51

Originally Posted by Sassylass

Originally Posted by Lostn51

Wow I really need to get in the shop more often but between the snake bite and trying to keep up with my customers I am hardly on the internet at all.

I am working on something for me for once. :D I am getting my FC Henderson ready to put on a treadle that I restored several months back. I was a W&W D9 treadle but after making the top for it I am going to mount the machine on the top and then fashion a coffin top for the machine and call it done.

Billy

Snake bite?? Care to elaborate?? Hope your feeling better and soon!!
sass

I was taking the items out of the attic of my daughters house that was flooded from the Mississippi River and a copperhead bit me in the face right below my eye. We had to bulldoze her house down from the damage but ours fared pretty well except for the storms we had leading up to the massive flooding.

Billy

Geeze Billy, you have been through a lot with just the storms, but a copperhead bite? How bad did it get and how are you now? A copperhead bite sounds deadly to me! We have rattlesnakes here, but a copperhead sounds worse somehow!

Nancy

Originally Posted by QuilterGary

My 301A and the 15 clone that I pick up. Did not get a bobbin case with the 301 so I am on the hunt for one. $50.00 on eBay should be able to find one for less. The modern sews as advertised.

Jenny at http://shop.sew-classic.com/Singer-3...-Parts_c37.htm has the bobbin cases and other 301 parts. She has been good to deal with.

Originally Posted by QuilterGary

My 301A and the 15 clone that I pick up. Did not get a bobbin case with the 301 so I am on the hunt for one. $50.00 on eBay should be able to find one for less. The modern sews as advertised.

Quilter Gary, those are both very nice machines! Lucky you!

Nancy

Originally Posted by BoJangles

Monica, I have been playing with Annie Oakley Two Spools. I can't get her to sew. I know I am not putting that second spool holder in correctly. Does it make a snap sound like a regular bobbin when inserted correctly so you know it is locked?

Nancy

Ok I got the Two Spools sewing perfectly, but I still need some advise on that second spool casing. I got it in correctly with the little push in thingy, but I had to use a screw driver to hold the pop in, in. How do you get it loaded correctly?

Nancy

Originally Posted by BoJangles

Geeze someone rescue this machine! It is far too nice for a 'parts' machine. Look at those La Vincendora decals!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

Nancy

Nancy, I just saw one exactly like this in an antique mall here. They wanted $110 for it. Missing cord, bobbin carrier, bobbins, foot pedal. In a bentwood case. It was in nice shape, but I found something else there I wanted more.....a Featherweight!!! And I put it on Layaway!! I really hadn't planned on buying one, but she was whispering to me as I walked around the place. I couldn't leave her there!! So, in about 30 days she'll be mine!

Also that place had 3 treadles...one was a White, one was a 66 red eye, and I didn't open up the 3rd one, but the front of the cabinet looked like a White that I had seen before.

Originally Posted by BoJangles

Originally Posted by Lostn51

Originally Posted by Sassylass

Originally Posted by Lostn51

Wow I really need to get in the shop more often but between the snake bite and trying to keep up with my customers I am hardly on the internet at all.

I am working on something for me for once. :D I am getting my FC Henderson ready to put on a treadle that I restored several months back. I was a W&W D9 treadle but after making the top for it I am going to mount the machine on the top and then fashion a coffin top for the machine and call it done.

Billy

Snake bite?? Care to elaborate?? Hope your feeling better and soon!!
sass

I was taking the items out of the attic of my daughters house that was flooded from the Mississippi River and a copperhead bit me in the face right below my eye. We had to bulldoze her house down from the damage but ours fared pretty well except for the storms we had leading up to the massive flooding.

Billy

Geeze Billy, you have been through a lot with just the storms, but a copperhead bite? How bad did it get and how are you now? A copperhead bite sounds deadly to me! We have rattlesnakes here, but a copperhead sounds worse somehow!

Nancy

Well they are very poisonous and after it bit me I went and got my 12ga and ran a box of shells through it taking out several of them. It was a baby that bit me (which is worse) but I was able to take its remains to the hospital with me for the anti venom. I was very lucky and since the house was being bulldozed down It didnt matter that it had a butt load of holes blown in it. :lol: So I am on antibiotics and I can not get hot nor can I get out in the sun.

Billy

Originally Posted by Sassylass

Originally Posted by Lostn51

Wow I really need to get in the shop more often but between the snake bite and trying to keep up with my customers I am hardly on the internet at all.

I am working on something for me for once. :D I am getting my FC Henderson ready to put on a treadle that I restored several months back. I was a W&W D9 treadle but after making the top for it I am going to mount the machine on the top and then fashion a coffin top for the machine and call it done.

Billy

Snake bite?? Care to elaborate?? Hope your feeling better and soon!!
sass

Billy....terrifying!!! I hate snakes!! Glad you are OK...wow.

Billy, that must have been quite an experience. Glad you are ok.

Lucy

Billy, we are very glad you made out ok with that snake bite. Wow. Y'all have had pretty rough situations with weather, your family and snakes. Stay safe. Maybe more sewing or somethin'! :D

I am going to try and to get out to start painting a few machines while it is still cool early in the morning. I have a few machines I have to get done ASAP sick or not.

Billy