Elna Grasshopper
#22
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This is what mine looks like:
http://sewsitall.blogspot.com/2013/1...asshopper.html
It shows why they call it a grasshopper.
I got it in 2012, I found it in a yard sale not long after reading this review:
http://silkmothsewing.blogspot.com/2...-number-1.html
I've been really happy with it.
http://sewsitall.blogspot.com/2013/1...asshopper.html
It shows why they call it a grasshopper.
I got it in 2012, I found it in a yard sale not long after reading this review:
http://silkmothsewing.blogspot.com/2...-number-1.html
I've been really happy with it.
#24
A thread about clones can be found at Any info on this "Compac" Elna Grasshopper clone?
I'm not sure about all of the links in that thread, but you can try.
I was thinking grant15clone had a clone in really rough shape that he refurbished, but I can't find it. I'm thinking the clones were different color.
If memory serves, the case that folds out the free arm cut out/opening are different in that one opens from the bottom of the case and the Elna 2 opens from the top.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
#25
My Compaq clone is gray and makes no efforts to try to use an Elna name. No way to confuse it. My Elna SU came with a case that is slightly different from the Supermatic None of my cases have the smooth inserts that some ( all?) that the grasshoppers do.
My SU below has a blue case, TSP didn't come with one.
SU[ATTACH=CONFIG]600903[/ATTACH]
TSP[ATTACH=CONFIG]600904[/ATTACH]
My SU below has a blue case, TSP didn't come with one.
SU[ATTACH=CONFIG]600903[/ATTACH]
TSP[ATTACH=CONFIG]600904[/ATTACH]
#26
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Thanks Cari for the info about the quality of the clones.
Leonf thanks for introducing me to SU(e) and TSP (Do you pronounce that as tttsssssppp)
I think I am getting too interested in these old machines I am scaring myself. But on the other hand, we have done the yard sales here each weekend this summer and there has been really nothing nice except that Elna 1 that started this thread.
Leonf thanks for introducing me to SU(e) and TSP (Do you pronounce that as tttsssssppp)
I think I am getting too interested in these old machines I am scaring myself. But on the other hand, we have done the yard sales here each weekend this summer and there has been really nothing nice except that Elna 1 that started this thread.
#27
I call the TSP the teaspoon. I had another Elna that I gave to a quilt shop that was starting.
I think 50 is the number for an addiction. If I had to cross water or desert to collect them I would probably have a lot fewer. I've only picked them up in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, and Oklahoma. A few have come up from bkay in Texas, but I didn't have the honor of meeting her. I do have one waiting patiently in Mississippi. And I still don't have a grasshopper, just a clone. I got it early and ran into a problem. Now that I have more experience, I should dig it out and see if I can fix it.
Facebook marketplace is getting interesting for local ones.
I think 50 is the number for an addiction. If I had to cross water or desert to collect them I would probably have a lot fewer. I've only picked them up in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, and Oklahoma. A few have come up from bkay in Texas, but I didn't have the honor of meeting her. I do have one waiting patiently in Mississippi. And I still don't have a grasshopper, just a clone. I got it early and ran into a problem. Now that I have more experience, I should dig it out and see if I can fix it.
Facebook marketplace is getting interesting for local ones.
#28
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My husband and I used to have an Antique Mall. The definition of a collection was having three. I think for me addiction starts quite a ways before 50, especially when they take up room - not like postage stamp collections or even spoons. I have not dared to look for a machine on the internet. It is going to have to meet me in person - at least this year. Next year will perhaps be a different story, by then I will be more serious about it. But our home renovation is taking longer than we expected and won't be done before we take off for Arizona. Ah well.
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