Repainting vintage machines
 

I have seen some 301's and 221 repainted and they were beautiful. Who does this kind of work??? Is there anyone in Florida??? Thanks for any help.

What an interesting question. Hope someone can answer your question.

You could check out quilter's guilds. May be some husbands who like to that and retired body shop painters!

Contact Suncatcher.com in Texas, Fred Sweitzer, he knows someone who does it. It is pricey though.

learing to do it yourself can be done, depending on your desire
lots of helps here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pain...m=122&ie=UTF-8

this guy has been doing featherweights for awhile
http://www.featherweightsincolor.com/

more
http://www.roxannequilts.com/featherweights.html

I think there are quite a few people doing it now. My machines are all in great shape, but if I had a good runner with crap finish I'd tackle it for sure. Especially considering what people are charging.

There are numerous threads in the vintage machine forum where members have brought back machines from the dead zone :)

http://theoldsewingmachineman.com/ a florida guy

talk to auto body shops. A lot of the guys like to showcase their skills.

There is a tutorial in the sticky notes how to refinish your machine. I kind of like the steam punk look..............

I took a class from the oldsewingmachineman.com and he us very knowledgeable and I saw one of the machines that he had repainted and it was beautiful.

Thank you all so much!

They also have their apprentices work on small items to hone their pin striping and lacing skills.