Winter really sucks here in Ohio so I try to have a winter project to keep me busy inside.
There is only so much of the Speedster project I could do inside my cramped, heated shop.
I’m new at furniture repair and I have an important family heirloom furniture repair project I’ve been working on since last summer. I didn’t want to do all my learning on that important project, so I looked around for something to practice on and landed on this 1929 Singer portable sewing machine that Vicki had lying around.
The machine and the case were both in pretty bad shape.
The case had been dropped and both rear corners of the base were smashed. First step was fixing them.
I pulled the pieces back into place with clamps and used epoxy to fill the spaces and bond them together.
On the corner that needed the most fill I made dams to keep the epoxy in place.
I finished the corners off with bondo
Rather than try to make the bondo look like walnut I just painted this rim around the top on the controller end black.
Once it was all assembled I thought it was an acceptable compromise.