Old Singers And The Like

Right now I have Fifty-plus Singer Sewing Machines, a Singer 99 clone from Japan, a Domestic, a couple of Necchis and an Elna, hence the "And The Like"

Thursday, June 27, 2024

She Served Us Well - 403A

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So here's a first.  The first machine I have passed on to a new owner.  
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Friday, December 30, 2022

Made It! At Least I Didn't Go A Whole Calendar Year Without Posting

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I received a comment from Michael asking if I had abandoned the blog, so figured I better let everyone know I'm still around. Yeah-yeah,...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Well There Goes The Neighborhood - 1967 Elna 62D

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 Here's the deal.  Once I treadled the 221 I started looking around at other machines that "can't be treadled".  There are...
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Sunday, April 11, 2021

Changing The Narrative - Singer 15-91 (The Wicked Queen)

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 My daughter is coming up from Florida to visit.  We are in clean up mode and it may be a week or so before I get another post up.  I couldn...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Yes, Turn To The Dark Side, Young Jedi - Singer 750 Touch And Sew.

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Well the 635 bombed out.  I did get a good pedal out of it.  And I guess a spare PA motor I can work on another project with.  But every day...
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Friday, April 9, 2021

Heresy! Singer 635 Touch And Sew

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WARNING! Rants ahead. Okay in my defense this was an experiment.  I've been reading about the 'hack' to run the dual speed 1 am...
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Saturday, April 3, 2021

Shhh, Super Secret "Project FWT" - Singer 221 Treadle

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 I've hinted around about planning this for years. Well I've finally gone and done it.   It's not a machine conversion, the 221 ...
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Thursday, April 1, 2021

Carving Stitches With Marge's Singer VS2 Death Machine

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 I have to say this is an impressive machine.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Treadle From Random Pieces For The 107W5

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 I don't think I've ever shown putting together one of the random parts from Norm treadles I do.  So let me show you how it goes.
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Monday, March 29, 2021

Of Course I Got It - 1885 Singer Improved Family

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 Spring is coming, that means more time up in the sewing room.  I'm working on a couple of new posts.  One for the 107W5 going into a tr...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Adventures In Aerospace Engineering And Some Painting/Cleaning For The 1935 Singer 221

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As you may recall when we last left the newest 221 we were in a bit of a bind with the throat plate screws.
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Friday, March 19, 2021

Singer VS2 Blackside! Cause That's How We Roll In The Shire

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A month or so ago one of the guys on Victorian Sweatshop pointed me to a Chandler patcher on Facebook Marketplace.  I hemmed and hawed abou...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Emergency 221 Purchase. And Happy 50th Singer day.

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 I've spent the last couple of days trying to get the blog entries caught up.  This morning I was working on the entry for the VS2 I pic...
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New Furniture For The Sewing Room, And Another Machine - Singer 15-91

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 For a while now the only chair I had up in the sewing room was a folding lawn chair.  It was a little awkward to sew with.  I occasionally ...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Another Poor Beat Down Goodwill Machine - Singer 27-3

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 I was trolling through Shopgoodwill  a few weeks ago and saw this guy a few times with no bids.  Normally I would pass as well but eventual...
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Sewing Room (Slow) Progress Update

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 I do continue to work on the sewing room.  Progress isn't quick.  Me and the boy did a bit of work last year, but kind of lost most of ...
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I'm A Rocketman! (Sorry Sir Elton) - Singer 500A

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 After getting the 500A apart I took some pieces down to Sherwin Williams (I read the reviews of their do-it-yourself phone app and they wer...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Yeah, I Knew It Was Going To Happen - Singer 500A

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 It's one of those machines everyone gets eventually.  But I promise this one was an accident... Kinda.
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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Tilting At Windmills with the 107W5 - Allbrands.com Adventures (?)

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 This is pretty much a post about how retired guys keep themselves entertained.    As you may remember from the last post I'm currently ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Domesticating The Singer 107W5

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 Right now I have five industrial machines.  The 29K72, the 95-40, the 96-10, the 103 and now the 107W5.  The 107W5 is the only machine with...
Monday, February 8, 2021

Charity Sewing Continues

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 Even though we can't get together at the library, the charity sewing group continues to work on projects.  These days they are kind of ...
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Sunday, February 7, 2021

'Modern' Machine Annoyances - Aligning Singer 401 Needlebar

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 I'm working on some baby quilts for our charity sewing group - more on that in another post.  Today I decided to jazz things up a bit b...
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Friday, February 5, 2021

More Shiny Bits! 1931 Singer 15-91 Nickel Plated

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 I've always been interested in the first year 15-91s that have all the plating on them.  Black Swan is even wearing the Stitch Indicato...
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Friday, January 29, 2021

Great British Sewing Bee Series 6

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First off props where they are do.  Series six was much better than series five.  Joe has reigned a little of his more cringe inducing behav...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Happy Birthday to Me! (Part 2) - Singer 95-40

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 This one was more of an adventure for the wife than the 107.  And even more of a double surprise.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Oops, Forgot One - Singer 101 (1923)

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 I didn't really forget it.  Just kept putting it off.  I mentioned it before when I talked about our 2018 road trips.  This was one of ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Happy Birthday to Me! Singer 107W5

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 I complain about zigzagging a lot.  If you've read any of my posts about the 401/403/Automatic Zigzagger you probably know this already...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Goodwill Singer 15-88 Converted. But Does It Sew? (And Treadle 328 Gets A Cover)

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Here is my quandary.  Right now getting more treadle parts is kind of not a happening thing.  I know where to get them.  My contact has plen...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Singer 15-90- nah, 15-88 From Shopgoodwill

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This is number seven of Shopgoodwill.com purchases I've made.  So far the score for packing has been: 2 excellent, 2 average, 2 oh my go...
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Monday, April 13, 2020

The Sewing Room Is Coming Along

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I've shot some videos up in the sewing room, usually just showing the five or six square feet that wasn't silted under with crap.  T...
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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Singer 101 - My x01 Straight Is Complete

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So even though I was traveling most of last year doesn't mean I wasn't still picking up the odd bit of sewing machine coolness on th...
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Saturday, April 11, 2020

How To Make Decent Masks Video

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The hospital in my home town decided after a month of turning down donated masks that, oops, they actually needed some.  My sister has start...
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Friday, April 3, 2020

Great British Sewing Bee - Revisited

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Oh well, it's still the only show on TV that has a bit of sewing in it I guess.  Series 6 is on the way, so here's what I thought of...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Making Masks - Like Everyone Should Be

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Yep, if you can sew you should be pumping these guys out whenever you can.  Even if your local hospital isn't taking donations (not v...
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Thursday, March 26, 2020

It's Been One Of Those Years

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Hi all.  Just wanted to let everyone know I'm still around.  Got distracted by life (and Warcraft) for a while.  Have a few posts in the...
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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Craigslist Rescue - Singer 404

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Like I mentioned in the VS2 post, I'm a avid Craigslist cruiser.  Yesterday while making my usual rounds I stumbled onto an ad for this ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2019

New And Improved! 1892 Singer Model 27

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I don't have any great expertise on checking the providence of machines.  Pretty much what I do is look for sources online.  I don't...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

My First Singer VS2 - Do Spiderwebs Count As Patina?

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This was kind of a weird Craiglist find.  I scour it pretty regularly.  A couple of days ago I saw the ad for this guy, along with a 27 I...
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Sewing For Charity At The Simsbury Public Library

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I finally made it to one of the charity sewing meetings at the library here.  The last two I've tried to attend were snowed out.  Snow...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Feeling The Power - Singer 103 In An Industrial Treadle

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The 103 is finally back together. Temporarily at least.
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Monday, March 4, 2019

Twofer Cleaning Day On The Singer 15-30s

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The 1904 was in pieces on the floor and I got to thinking that I might use some of the pieces of Hyman Workman's 1927 to get the '04...
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Friday, March 1, 2019

Charlie Brown's Sewing Machine - 1904 Singer 15-30

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I'm always on the look out for old, sad machines.  I really like taking one that has been beat down hard and getting it back in shape.  ...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Singer 201 Spa Day. Using A HA-1 Numbered Needle Plate On A 201

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If you watched 201 treadle conversion video you may have noticed a couple of photos where I had the 1953 201 stand in for Swan Queen for som...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Converting Another Singer 201-2 To A Treadle Machine

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I was trying to keep the naming theme of the treadle 201s the same.  I couldn't very well call it "White Swan", it would be wr...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

128 Gets Its Singer Hand Crank

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I have been toying with the idea of buying an original Singer hand crank for a 'portable' machine for a while.  I had the modern kno...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Prepping For NETOGA, About Six Months Early

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As I mentioned in this post , I wanted to have my quilting blocks done for the NETOGA (North East Treadle-On Gathering and Academy) before p...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Tuning Up The 401, Again. Supergirl Is Pure Fantasy

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This 401 has been sitting on the shelf next to Black Swan's cabinet for a few months now, right next to the 301.  I had brought it in to...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Happy Valentine's Day. Making The Wife's Gift Using Black Swan, Wicked Queen And The 29K72 For The Win.

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During one of our pilgrimages to Osgood Textile a couple of years ago we had bought some leather along with a few dozen pounds of other fabr...
Friday, February 8, 2019

The Heartbreak Of Taking The 1949 221 To Market

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Well the Goodwill 221 is listed for sale.  We'll see how it goes.  It's my first 'for sale' machine, so I made sure to get i...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Getting The 128 Ready For A New (Old) Hand Crank

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If you read the post about the 128 my sister bought for me in exchange for the 221 I bought her, then you might remember this picture.
Monday, February 4, 2019

Cleaning Case For The 1949 221

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The Goodwill 221 arrived a couple of days ago and is in pieces for cleaning.  I'm going to do a post about getting it ready to sale.  I ...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Playing Sewing Machine Detective

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If you have read a lot of the previous entries you know one of the things I enjoy about collecting machines is finding out their history.  W...
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