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Old 11-05-2014, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by miriam View Post
A lot of times they will sew through leather. BUT what thickness? How much leather? I would think it would be a lot more efficient to sew leather on a machine made to sew leather. I had a real old Singer 15 that did sew through a lot of leather. It was a cruddy looking machine but boy could that thing sew. It had one of the older heavy hand wheels on it, too. mumble mumble mumble....
Absolutely Miriam, just because a domestic machine CAN sew the heavy stuff doesn't mean it should be fed a steady diet of it. When I did it with Moms Prestige I didn't know any better. Now I do. His "retractable feed" statement makes me wonder just how much he really knows, I've never heard it called that before. And I wonder why the motor has been replaced.

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