Thanks, Cari.

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.

Leonf and Cari: Even though there are copies out there am I correct that they cannot be confused with the real thing? Leon in Post 18 I don't understand "SU"

Pictures of the Elna machines themselves can be found at http://needlebar.org/main/elna/
A thread about clones can be found at https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintag...e-t262776.html
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.

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]

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):D

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.

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.

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.:D 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.

Want one more? There is just over 1 day left here:
https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/57409744