Originally Posted by
Jabatrom
What does yours look like? Is it black or have a crinkle finish? I'm looking for a manual as I don't know how to use mine. The one I have uses the long shuttle rather than the rotary bobbin.
Hi,
According to the Janome database your machine was made between 1949 and 1952. Call it four years. They made 539,370 LN machine during that period. So, they made just over 100,000 per year. 875,198-606744 = 268452. 875198-335828 = 539370 That's about 50% or an interpolation of 1.99 years. So, your machine was probably made in late 1950.
Crinkle finish in the 1960s was known as WWII wrinkle finish paint, usually black. In was very durable but it held the dirt in the cracks. So, it went out of favor by the late 1960 because it was so hard to clean. My dad used to sell old WWII equipment and I saw plenty of WWII wrinkle finish items.
Your machine is likely a real crinkle finish brown LN machine made in late 1950. If it was re-coated, plenty of us would like to know how to reproduce the exact "particle size" of the small island of wrinkles and that small spacing.
Stefan