Originally Posted by
Brass Head
The 201 is an exquisite machine: design, sound, function. I think of them as the elegant Singer. Nobody with any sensibility can help falling in love with them. If they'd dropped some corpse-white plastic rig from the 80's, you never would have fallen into this obsession, which would be a good thing in some people's minds (spouses, say), but not in mine.
I'm a die hard Japanese machine collector but I do have a few Singers. Early on in my vintage journey a black Singer called out to me at a thrift store and I just had to bring it home. Little did I know at the time I'd found the Cadillac of straight stitch machines, a 201-2. Any time someone asks me what's so special about a 201-2 I say I can't tell you what it is, you have to experience it for yourself. More than once I've been told I was right, nothing compares to a 201-2. My Elizabeth is the queen of my herd.(But shhh, don't tell my Brother machines this, they get jealous!)
Cari