Singers in the early years were great, purchased one in the 70's that was a piece of junk, today I wouldn't have one. There are far better machines out there. I have 3 baby locks and a Janome, all great machines and I do a lot of heavy duty tote bags, singer wouldn't hold up to that, they are very fussy machines and go out of timing EZ, my machine was in the shop more that not.