Originally Posted by
Rodney
The bottom is based on a Singer 15 even if the top doesn't look anything like one anymore.
It sure looks like all three of them left the same factory. Those are both great looking White machines. I'll have to flip it over tomorrow and see if there's anything there to identify it. The cabinet is decent though I'm not a fan of pickled oak. The only problem is that I'm out of room for cabinet machines. Anywhere big enough to have a cabinet already has one.
Rodney
Rodney it's not considered a clone becuase the Japanese took the 15 class mechanics and ran with it, so by the time this machine was made the only thing left it has in common with a Singer 15 is the bobbin works. From the mid 50s on, Japanese engineering started to leave Singers' in the dust. For example, I have a 1956 Brother that has capabilities that Singer machines didn't have until 1968 or thereabouts. By then Singer was already sinking fast and the writing was on the wall.
Pickled oak? Never heard that before I don't think. I have two desk cabinets that look like yours, maybe mine are pickled oak. Whatever they are, I want to refinish them someday.
Cari