You can download a free manual online. The machine and cabinet are both beautiful. If you don't want to do a full refinish on the cabinet, there are products that do a good job. I did a dressing table yesterday. I wish I had before and after pictures because it looks so different.

She's very pretty!

Congrats on your new baby, she's beautiful, May in Jersey

Do you have the url for the manual? I figured I'd give the cabinet a cleaning with Murphy's Oil Soap and then use Old English to polish and take it from there. I've used Old English on my violins and upright basses since I was a child. Old habits die hard!

Beautiful machine. I Love the cabnet.

I assume your machine is a 66, but you'll find it more exactly with the serial number. I'm not finding a complete manual, but here's a start so you can sew. http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...g-machine.html

As for the finish, Old English did little for the bentwood case on my 128. Charlee on the vintage site used different products on a cabinet and it looked great, so I purchased them for my treadle and my vintage dressing table. Her directions: "I gave the cabinet and the machine a quick wipe down with Murphy's Oil Soap, followed with a rub-down of Howard's Re-Stor-A-Finish. A coat of Howards' Bee's Wax with Orange Oil provided the finishing touch. The machine itself got a coat of TR-3 car wax."
I used a scrub brush with the Murphy's and fine steel wool with the Restor-A-Finish. This dressing table was dirty and had been used by children with markers. Looks good now.

I don't usually love these old machines when people post them, but this one is lovely. I especially love the cabinet. I wish I had my mom's old power machine by singer. It was a machine straight out of a sweat shop and it was the machine I learned to sew on.

What a great baby

She's gorgeous and so is her cabinet! What a great deal!! Congratulations :-D :thumbup:

Thanks so much! I don't know why, but I am more than a little terrified of it. I'll go over to the old machine thread to see if I can get a perfect match but it sure looks like it.