Originally Posted by notsureif

candaca. I would buy that in a heart beat
Fact I wish some of mine looked that good on the day they came home...... on one singer I did replace a piece of the top, it looked just like that one, THEN once getting more machines, The price of the veneer was out of the question. enough veneer the do the entire top is around $70 add this to about another $50 in other materails as glue lacquer, sand paper so on.... and a good 5 days worth of hard labor.... Thats if you have all the tooling...

so the last 7 have left with there ugly falling apart tops in place.. yet reglued, sanded smooth and lacquer...

I knew I was taking a chance doing this, these two were going to a lady friend who is a bit of a perfectist.. ok I gave her 4 treadles, 3 went to her with screwed up tops.....

she did make a funny look, ran her hand over the wood and fell in love with the look.....

I only have one pic showing what I do to the tops and the lighting wasn't good plus it's a bit blurry. I don't have any that show the area , before

Bobbin winder , I have 3 with the winder on the bottom and have never had an issuse using those. at times I do have to use a finger and push the winder against the belt, but then at times I end up doing the same on the round bobbin machines


all it takes is time and you have it