my new Grover & Baker Lockstitch Treadle is on the way!!!
08-08-2013, 10:42 PM
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same debate i was having regarding the plating. I will pass on doing that for now. Stock but functional.
It picked up a stitch tonight!!!!!!
It promptly made it into a birds nest, but it did it.
I know I am threading the bobbin wrong and there is now upper tension spring, so duhhhh.
BTW Thanks to the folks at Needlebar and Cathy I know it uses G&B #19 needles (yeah right) or a Boye #2 (got lots) or a 13x1 (I'm looking)
Here is the business end when i started
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429221[/ATTACH]
after some lovin.... (Yes, that is the G&B picking up it's first stitch)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429222[/ATTACH]
current shuttle loading
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429223[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429224[/ATTACH]
Borrowed a winder from a Howe B treadle (has the pin for the hole in the bobbin as well... Score!)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429225[/ATTACH]
It picked up a stitch tonight!!!!!!
It promptly made it into a birds nest, but it did it.
I know I am threading the bobbin wrong and there is now upper tension spring, so duhhhh.
BTW Thanks to the folks at Needlebar and Cathy I know it uses G&B #19 needles (yeah right) or a Boye #2 (got lots) or a 13x1 (I'm looking)
Here is the business end when i started
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429221[/ATTACH]
after some lovin.... (Yes, that is the G&B picking up it's first stitch)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429222[/ATTACH]
current shuttle loading
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429223[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429224[/ATTACH]
Borrowed a winder from a Howe B treadle (has the pin for the hole in the bobbin as well... Score!)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]429225[/ATTACH]
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