Originally Posted by
singerguy
yes it is. now i know what to use for leather sewing if ever i need to. didn't expect my 127 to handle this one. but it did....they do make awesome machine in the old days....the good old days.
I sewed a Naugahyde ATV seat completely with a hand crank 127. I used it primarily for the control of the hand cranked machine, but was amazed at how efficiently it sewed through 3 or 4 layers of Naugahyde at seams. My belief is that with the correct needle, tensions and threads, almost any vintage machine will accomplish what we're discussing. The machines were not manufactured to do this, but like Steve says, they were something special back then.