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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
Sorry, I've got a thing for old, mechanical Singer's as they are pretty cool machines. My wife has a Featherweight that is as old as I am and it's near mint condition too.
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Are you implying that
you are in near mint condition?
Sewing machines are pretty cool. I like to listen to a good sewing machine work. The old ones have a solid, almost fluid sound to them. I think it is because they used heavier material because they either didn't know how to make it thinner or didn't have access to higher strength material.
MrsWD buys and sells Featherweights, so get to see a lot of them. She keeps an 80 year old one to use, as she says it's the best general purpose sewing machine there is. In addition to the Featherweights that come and go she has a Juki, two Berninas, her "forever" Featherweight, and a monster Sweet Sixteen long arm quilting machine. Her quilt studio takes up 1000 square feet of our house.