Exactly what I was thinking...no metal, cheap made, won't last. Gosh, we all sound like machine snobs! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

It might be a good running machine, but it's not visually attractive to me so I'd never buy one.

"Flintstones meets the Jeffersons" look to me (tried to combine the look!) LOL !!!! How much are these things anyway?

I think it is pretty, lots of people on this board are not in very good moods. If you don't like it don't buy it, being snotty is not required.

It's all in the personal experience. I have an Alpha Sew that I bought a few years back when I first discovered "The" FW. It is nothing but a piece of ill-machined junk. Others like them, but I would not take money for another one.
As for the limited edition Singer. I'd prefer to play with one and then voice my opinion but with just a quick glance I'd pass.

I don't know if I like it....still thinking on it!!

Janice, tell you what, you buy the new one and I'll take the one in your avitar off your hands!! Sounds like a deal to me! :thumbup:

I hear that I don't like the look of it either

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don't like the plastic or the throat, but I think it cute, but wont be buying one, will stick to my older models. I do need a smaller portable one, I just keep on looking. Give me metal please, something that I can do minor repair or servicing and not have to take to an expert.

$646? Not in this lifetime, sorry. Love my 1948 baby

I said it in the other thread, and I'll say it here too. Sewing machines are NOT a good investment, unless you have a sewing business and they will pay for themselves.

There is no doubt in mind mind that if I was to die tomorrow, and William got his wish and got to sell my machines, he will in no way get what was paid for the modern machines, and being as we're talking about tomorrow, I doubt he'd get what we paid for the antique/vintage machines! (In this economy!) He'd get more for the ones I got excellent deals on, and less for those I paid a bit more for.

If you want the Singer Anniversary edition because you like and want it and it makes you happy, then by all means, go for it. If you buy it because you think you'll make money on it...well...you already know what I think there...

well...its cute...but for the money and ease of repair, I'll take my original FW any day

Is it metal like the FW 75? I wish it had some of the stitches that the FW 75 has.

Oh I just looked at it. I don't care for the shape of it at all. I have a 1952 featherweight and I just love it!!

Sorry, but in my eyes the FW 75 is plastic, too.

I think it's great that, on this board, we can respectfully disagree with one another! Some of us like vintage, others like brand-spanking-new $10,000 models, and hey, we even let the hand-quilters speak their minds (LOL). Since nobody has actually seen this machine yet, and won't until -next year, I think? - maybe we should stop bashing the poor little thing now! I'm going to take the wait-and-see approach!

I wouldn't personally spend that much on that machine. It is very interesting and hopefully will be an excellent machine for those who do purchase it.

Pat

LOL I agree with you but if you go to the ISMACS convention in Nashville TN this weekend you can go play with it at the show. I hope to be there and if I can get an order in early I will if they will let me. Sewing machines might not be a good investment but I have to blow my kids inheritance on something and I already have enough cars and bikes to choke a horse!

Billy

I would rather have the real orginal. Infact I have a '56 Singer 99 and wouldn't trade it for the world. I also have a 1917 treadle that can't be beat...............

I have an original FW so I won't be buying another. I'd like to sell some of my antique machines, but not the FW.

I hope you go and take lots of pictures and get the scoop in person!

not in love with the look, wait and see for me.

I think it is cute. I like it, but not going to pay that price for it.

Oh I love your Pom!!! I think I have its sibling here!

Billy

Oh, how cute. My poor baby is so old she is almost all gray. she is 14 yrs old. The picture was taken 5 or 6 years ago. She was a bonus I got when I married my husband (dog came with him)

She is adorable!!! Mine is 3 I think and her brother lives here with her and he is 5 (different litter). Then I have a sheprador puppy and a irish setter/lab mix. They all love each other and play very well together surprisingly. My SIL breeds Poms and she has 19 right now so can you imagine how much fun that would be living there? Nothing beats the pitter patter of pommie paws!!

Billy

My pocketbook says, "ouch."

Since a lot of you knock the newer Singer machines, I'm very curious as to how many of you actually bought them from a dealer or bought them at Walmart, Sam's, Costco, QVC, etc. I have two fairly new Singer machines, Quantum 3400 (I think it is about 10 years old and no longer manufactured) and a Futura 350 (4 years old) and I have never had a problem with either one. By the way, they were both purchased from an acutal Singer dealer.

I'm still taking a wait and see approach (Billy seems to think they will be built well and people that have the new FW 75 like them) - but if it is way to expensive or really doesn't sew well or have the stitches I'd want it to have (or a combination of those things) it would be out. I'm not thinking of 'investment', but its kind of cool in a history kind of way, because it is a Centennial and also it looks like it would be easy to show someone how to sew on - not as much power under the hood as the Janome.

Thanks so much so sending the link so we can all see it. I was curious after hearing about it.

I am looking for the link. Where, oh, where is it?

I'm onboard with Billy, I want one.