Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Anyone heard of this one?
FW clone called the MINI Classic made in the 90's.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/hsh/2449094017.html
This guy is always posting some cool looking or pretty machine, but he is a bit high for me. I try to get all my machines around a $100 or less.
I copied the picture just in case the listing is removed.
Oh, and motor looks huge!
Our sewing repair shop here has one of those clones. I was not impressed with it at all. Up close and personal it looked very cheaply made, nothing like a real FW. The FW clones are not in the same league as the Singer Model 15 clones made in Japan in the late 40, 50, and early 60's. The FW clones in my opinion are just a cheap imitation of the real thing, where the 15 clones were actually as good, if not better, that the original thing.
I can't believe someone would pay that much for an imitation when they could get a real one for the same price? Maybe, cause it is for a collector?
Nancy