Vicki is an incredibly creative person - always having ideas about stuff. Often, though, when she says, "Yanno, it would be cool if
we did 'this'." It means, "It would be cool if you did this for me." And so it was when she suggested we turn one of the dozen old sewing machines we have lying around into a lamp. As luck would have it, some guy had given up on the same kind of project and was selling the half finished pile of parts on FB Marketing. It was a sewing machine that was way cooler than anything we had, so $25 later, yaayyy?
The box of parts contained a White shuttle bobbin machine. White stopped making this type of machine in about 1900 so this dates from sometime in the late 19th Century.
This is how it looks after cleaning, polishing, painting, and applying decals that I had to order from Australia.
It's ready for Vicki to do the hard part - buying a lampshade.
