Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
#9531
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Huntsville, AL
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Originally Posted by kwendt
Originally Posted by Glenn
Kwendt, You can buy oak veneer at Lowes in a sheet large enough to cover the top. It is the right thickness to. It is resonalbly priced. Take the old veneer off sand top smooth and use contact cement to glue it down. After glueing down roll smooth with a rolling pin pressing hard. Let stand overnight before finishing. Glenn
#9532
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Kansas
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Billy I picked up two singers for $1. One is AD477696 and the other is 5528. Can you tell me amything about them. Both are in cabinets.
#9533
Originally Posted by Glenn
Kim, You can see pic of the cabinet for my pathfinder. It is finished with a fumed oak stain with three coats of shellac. (page 392) I used clear shellac instead of the orange because the stain was dark enough. The finish when I got it was black with age and had been revarnished several times with some kind of dark finish that was crazed and dirty. Glenn
#9534
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Posts: 185
kwendt,
Those little corner cabinets are so cute. . if I could find 4 of those, I could literally line the walls of a room with sewing cabinets! . . . .what a novel idea. . . . from reading here, I think a lot of us have already discovered that! ! ! ha! ha!
Those little corner cabinets are so cute. . if I could find 4 of those, I could literally line the walls of a room with sewing cabinets! . . . .what a novel idea. . . . from reading here, I think a lot of us have already discovered that! ! ! ha! ha!
#9535
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Northern California
Posts: 559
What are back clamping feet? Kathie
#9536
Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Very pretty machine, but did you know that the left front leg swings out and goes under the top to help support it? If you don't do this it will break the hinges on the top. I have one and like using it because with the leg out it give you more leg room under the table.
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#9537
Originally Posted by luv2learn
kwendt,
Those little corner cabinets are so cute. . if I could find 4 of those, I could literally line the walls of a room with sewing cabinets! . . . .what a novel idea. . . . from reading here, I think a lot of us have already discovered that! ! ! ha! ha!
Those little corner cabinets are so cute. . if I could find 4 of those, I could literally line the walls of a room with sewing cabinets! . . . .what a novel idea. . . . from reading here, I think a lot of us have already discovered that! ! ! ha! ha!
kim
#9538
Originally Posted by Lostn51
OMG!!!! I went and pulled the treadle I bought last night out of the trunk and I looked in its drawers and I found the accessories. This machine has all sorts of brass feet (all with the big E for Eldridge on them) and has the key to the locks on the top and drawers. The best I can tell it was made in 1885, I know it can not be any later than 1886 because they change locations of manufacture and it says Chicago on the machine in several places.
I think this will be one of the nicest machines in my collection before its over with. Also does anyone know where I can find the dating information for the Eldridge machines? I posted on the NB but as usual I am black balled and they are ignoring me. (I will try to muster a surprised look on my face :lol: )
Billy
I think this will be one of the nicest machines in my collection before its over with. Also does anyone know where I can find the dating information for the Eldridge machines? I posted on the NB but as usual I am black balled and they are ignoring me. (I will try to muster a surprised look on my face :lol: )
Billy
http://www.ismacs.net/national/eldre...rtisement.html
#9539
Originally Posted by kwendt
ROTF!!!! Glenn and Billy, you guys should 'take it on the road' as a comedy act! I'm already planning how to give away my 70s Singer desk cabinet to make room for two vintage cabinets in my sew room. But now I'll have three... ! I'll be in the doghouse, for sure. lol. What to DO!?! You know, I WILL NOT like the food in the doghouse!
#9540
Originally Posted by Kathie S.
What are back clamping feet? Kathie
See the pictures on here: http://www.raindropkites.co.uk/sewin...es/bcfeet.html
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