Originally Posted by leonf

221 featherweight would be a good choice. but way expensive
301 is aluminum bodied adn very nice
99 is a 3/4 machine and a small number of them were made of aluminum

Those are all Singers.


Post war Japanese machines were nearly all cast iron.

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