My old machine has the arm that sticks out quite a ways in the front of the head, (where you poke your thread through the hole)....and as my vision is soo messed up at times I was having to lean in close to see what I was doing and went pedal to the metal....not only did that arm come down and catch my forehead, as it came down it caught my glasses putting a good scratch on them and on the next up sweep down it caught a chunk of my hair and about tore it out... LMBO I took an emory board to the rough spot on the arm so that my hair was safe and went looking for a brand new machine that night!!! The bruise was on my forehead for a week :roll: :lol: :lol: :roll:
I have done most all of what is listed over the years except for using fray check and sewing through a finger/thumb....
I think the use of fray check is still to date, the winner :roll: :lol: :roll: