Originally Posted by
Sewnoma
That's pretty cool! I just took apart my 15 and I'm pretty sure mine wasn't hand-etched. Seems insane to think there was that level of detail going on during the building and assembling of these machines that someone would notice the light stamping and bother to hand-etch it. I doubt you'd see something like that in a modern machine.
I think this is a testament to the quality of these older machines. It was made in 1956 when pride and quality still mattered, and planned obsolescence was not heard of yet. Something else that is amazing to me is, that Singer stamped every part (within reason) with the part number on it and where it was made.
Funny side note, they actually misspelled Simanco. They spelled it Sinanco.
~G~