I just bought one 2 weeks ago! BUT! It is NOT a Featherweight! That baby is HEAVY! I got it to add a crank on...don't know why, but I just had to have something non-electric. Maybe I am planning to teach very small children I don't trust with a foot pedal! I have a Featherweight too and love it. I have schleped that little beauty on the airplane when I went to my parents house. (I will NOT sew on my mom's machine...I learned on that one..and its set up in the back of an unheated, un cooled closet that has scorpions! ICK!)