I have a Singer 66 Red Eye like the one you are looking at except it's in a different style cabinet. I can tell you I love, love, love mine! So relaxing to sew on and in no time you will get the pedal down. My advise on that is don't try to muscle it like a bicycle, just let it gently rock up and down (go with the flow). When I started out I guess I was trying to get speed and kept cutting the pedal short of a full swing.