Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
not about Sewing machines, but the clothing in these Victorian London street pictures is AMAZING!!
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Ok...Again I come to the experts for advice: I have an opportunity to purchase a treadle. I don't know which one I should choose... a Wheeler & Wilson, runs good, cabinet in fair shape, no attachments..$100.00. Or an Old Davis with a lot of attachments, veneer on top of cabinet is warped, runs good...$75.00..
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Ok...Again I come to the experts for advice: I have an opportunity to purchase a treadle. I don't know which one I should choose... a Wheeler & Wilson, runs good, cabinet in fair shape, no attachments..$100.00. Or an Old Davis with a lot of attachments, veneer on top of cabinet is warped, runs good...$75.00..
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Manicmike, I have to say, that is a pretty machine.
Sorry for the absence, trying to catch up on threads here. A Yahoo update has screwed up everything.
I would like to mention something that came to my attention recently. A woman asked her local SMG if he would work on her vintage machines. A 66 and a 201-2. He said that they were too old, and declined to take them in for maintenance. She found me (I think from QB) and I did the necessary work for her. She couldn't find anyone local to work on them. She drove 1.5 hours each way to drop them off and pick them up so, six hours drive time total. I have to admit, I felt bad about the drive time she had.
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Sorry for the absence, trying to catch up on threads here. A Yahoo update has screwed up everything.
I would like to mention something that came to my attention recently. A woman asked her local SMG if he would work on her vintage machines. A 66 and a 201-2. He said that they were too old, and declined to take them in for maintenance. She found me (I think from QB) and I did the necessary work for her. She couldn't find anyone local to work on them. She drove 1.5 hours each way to drop them off and pick them up so, six hours drive time total. I have to admit, I felt bad about the drive time she had.
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~G~
We're like a fair size town on QB, where everyone has sewing machines, and half a century ago that was the way things were almost everywhere in the developed world. But these days, they're not nearly as common, and not nearly as many people are looking for someone to fix a sewing machine. There just aren't enough of us to sustain the number of repair businesses that there used to be, so they're few and far between. This is not to say that the demand will die out any time soon, just that the ratio in the general population is way, way down.
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We're like a fair size town on QB, where everyone has sewing machines, and half a century ago that was the way things were almost everywhere in the developed world. But these days, they're not nearly as common, and not nearly as many people are looking for someone to fix a sewing machine. There just aren't enough of us to sustain the number of repair businesses that there used to be, so they're few and far between. This is not to say that the demand will die out any time soon, just that the ratio in the general population is way, way down.
Speaking of DGKs. The youngest, Walter, pictured in my avatar, is mischief on legs. He loves to unthread sergers. He was watching as Miss L and Wilbur help me work on that machine (pictured) and I think he felt left out... He was caught red handed, he pulled the needle guard off his big sister's Spartan. The howl was heard directly to my house... He's too little yet but I think he might get to use a hand crank with no needle next time he is over. No screw driver for that one. No oil for that one.
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Oh dear of all the machines to unthread, the sergers! Hope Walter didn't hurt himself too badly. My three year old grandson asks to see my sewing machines every time he visits. Yesterday he asked to pump the treadle peddle for the first time. I can't tell you how many times I stopped it from spinning backwards. I may consider setting up a hand crank if he continues to show an interest.
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Oh dear of all the machines to unthread, the sergers! Hope Walter didn't hurt himself too badly. My three year old grandson asks to see my sewing machines every time he visits. Yesterday he asked to pump the treadle peddle for the first time. I can't tell you how many times I stopped it from spinning backwards. I may consider setting up a hand crank if he continues to show an interest.
Hello everyone I have been away for a while but hope to be on here more now. Glad everyone is doing ok.
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