Minnesota A New Model A sewing machine
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Jon,
I am sorry if I am starting to annoy you. It's just that this machine has me so excited and I am trying to solve a mystery here surrounding the approximate date that it was made. Here are pictures of the plate under the needle. The only number under this plate is the serial number.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]606573[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]606574[/ATTACH]
I am sorry if I am starting to annoy you. It's just that this machine has me so excited and I am trying to solve a mystery here surrounding the approximate date that it was made. Here are pictures of the plate under the needle. The only number under this plate is the serial number.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]606573[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]606574[/ATTACH]
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Thank you for clarifying Jon's post. I am not familiar with the terminology, so I wasn't sure that the piece that I took a picture of was the front slide plate. All of the Minnesota A machines that I have seen in posts or pictures have a much larger slide plate.
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It is white oak. It is finished with shellac. If you use the first coat of orange shellac you may not need any stain. Then finish with two coats of clear shellac. Test in a small area first. If a stain is needed to even out the color use a medium oak stain. I use aniline dye stain either water soluble or alcohol soluble type from a wood workers supply catalog.
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Thank you for the information Glenn. If they hadn't stored it in a wet environment and got paint and oil all over it, it might not have been so bad. As it is, we are just trying to get it back to its former glory and put it out as a working display/conversation piece. My wife wants to sew with it. The machine itself is not rusty at all. Only the belt was broken.
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Shellac question.
It is white oak. It is finished with shellac. If you use the first coat of orange shellac you may not need any stain. Then finish with two coats of clear shellac. Test in a small area first. If a stain is needed to even out the color use a medium oak stain. I use aniline dye stain either water soluble or alcohol soluble type from a wood workers supply catalog.
It has taken me quite a while to get this baby sanded. I finally got it stained. I used Minwax Early American stain. I have a can of Zinsser Bull's Eye shellac in Amber and was wondering how that might look.
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