It turned out very well, and you did an impressive work on polishing the wood too. Does it stitch? Is this model earlier than model 12. They always say Singer had the first practical sewing machine, but I have seen all these fantastic treadles on the web and started to wonder. Your Howe model is to rare to find any info on it, not much to go on, but it looks a bit like a model A, the other Howe models mentioned were either freearm or industrial.