an other Damascus model whatever
 

This one I've had for years, cabinet was gray, machine was a major cleaning project. cost $40

when this came around , I was all ready doing 3 other treadles and pushed for time, because of an up coming show / display. after refinish work was done, I really never dialed in the machine. It has sat in exile for years now, This winter is back tracking time. it came out last week. it sew'd but would break top thread a little to often and had a bit of a tight spot, the thread was jerky when the fabric come out from under the presser foot enough so the I couldn't count on starting without spinning the handwheel. Plus I never really cared for VS machines.

I got out the ol trusty screw driver and started loosen adjustments, untill I found which one was to tight . It spun as free as can be, but was still chewing thread ? finally that turns out to be teh shuttle was to close to the race which also stopped the jerkyness.



holy dog food. this thing sews as nice as any type machine, better than all the other VS machines, The vs rattle when away. it starts very easy with out touching the hand wheel.

I was always under the impression that a damascus was a bottom end machine, yet always liked it because of the decals, now it's how it sews.

If you can get one cheap, Don't turn your nose up, because of the name..

welp thats my S&M Co porn for tonight ..

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that is a beauty. and you pushed it aside! you learn something new everyday.

Nice job on the cabinet and machine, real pretty. Strictly look but don't touch SM diet for me these days and your Damascus is a pleasure to look at. Seems to be much prejudice that if it aint Singer it's a cheapie which isn't so.

Jon

Excellent work!

Jon you know what every place I've shown that machine people just love it, I never figured out why. Now I look at it and it's different, it's all gold's and browns in color, but multi tones of each, they blend and are easy on the eye. The cabinet was never covered in veneer, so all the joint work is tight, The drawer faces are solid oak, The design is stamped, but to the untrained eye, they love almost like real carvings.

Then the frame is painted a super dark metallic gray. so it's very dark with a hint of sparkle in the color. it looks old , but I think it's only about a 1925

I hate to do it , but it has to go back in the archives again ..

oh I left that cigarette burn on propose it kind looks like a roll your own who knows maybe granny was smoking something better way back when LOLOL.. in 1925 that stuff was legal. Those little hidden drawers where for the ladys cocaine , not joking.

Your Damascus looks like mine except for the cabinet. My cabinet is not as ornate as yours. Mine belonged to my great-great aunt May, she bought it new in 1925 for a whole $25.00 from the catalog. My grandmother said Aunt May bought it right after she came to live with them. Luckily for me she still had the manual so I could properly thread and oil the machine. Since my great grandmother was a seamstress the machines were always kept in the house. So I haven't polished it but have cleaned it and used it quite a bit before I got my Singer 15-91 from my mom. It was so much easier to use than my 1973 Singer.

not as ornate as this one ? I thought this cabinet was the stripped down model LOLOL any others I've seen with this design work have been in different cabinets. I'm say 1925 only because all I've ever found is a manual with a machine of teh same design, different cabinet, but has 1925 on the cover..

I can't get over how quite it is for a VS machine

Absolutely beautiful!

Beautiful! I've pushed aside some machines at my house too. Nothing as fantastic as that, though. Keep saying when I have more time...next winter. Well, this winter's starting off with lots going on too, and in my free time I keep trying to become a better quilt piecer, quilter, etc.