IHUK - A day in the life of….

[Giles]

( @Simon  lives about half a mile from me  )

[Paul9221]

I'm pretty out of shape with this quarantine. Half a mile seems pretty long distance

[Giles]

Amazing - 1901…...

[GC]

Blimey, that must be great to finally know Giles.

Not sure a thread exists for this, so apologies for tagging on the back of the current theme. Coincidentally I have been looking lately at getting a second hand machine, mainly to learn a new skill on and to ultimately attempt the odd alteration of the wife's dresses/kids clothes. (WTF has WFH done to me) 

Given the multitude of choices, should I…
(A) walk away from the idea and just let the pro's do their job.
(B) venture into old or new Singer machine territory.
(C) Consider something like a Frister + Rossmann Cub 7? (the later I spotted was engineered in Germany, made in Japan, which ticks a lot of reliability boxes for me)

If anyone in the know has any advice I'd be very grateful.

[Kasi]

@Giles
Can’t check mine my mum, till I go over back to the villa

[Giles]

@gc I'm a little biased.  I learned how to sew on my Singer.  I've made trousers, shirts, hats etc etc…..It does the job (though nothing fancy like buttonholes, blindstitch etc etc, but you can do those by hand if needed) and is very satisfying to use.

[Giles]

Just looked at some of my others.  These were all gifted to me or I found in skips…The first one posted below is in absolutely immaculate condition...

1950

1925

1954

Late 50's/Early 60's

[GC]

@Giles:

@gc I'm a little biased.  I learned how to sew on my Singer.  I've made trousers, shirts, hats etc etc…..It does the job (though nothing fancy like buttonholes, blindstitch etc etc, but you can do those by hand if needed) and is very satisfying to use.

@Giles thanks. You biased, really 

I'm more likely to cherish something old over new, fleabay here we go.

[Giles]

Yesterday and today Les built us a new Mezzanine.  We need a ladder and balustrading (and racking and decent lighting yet), but is going to be dedicated boot storage.

We have a guy from the racking company that we have always used (ever since I bought my first single rack, installing it into `a bedroom at home and thinking I'd made the big time  ), coming in on Thursday to audit our storage space and how we use it.  Then we get the lighting sorted out.

Dangerously close to getting profeshnial (sic)….

[Seul]

Excellent display of efficiency!..

[Giles]

I found another one, this one has been converted to electric motor drive at some point….

1946

[Giles]

I'm just looking at all the machines to work out which one is best suited for flat seam hemming on the heavy stuff.  Found this little piece of wonderment….

[Giles]

Hemming Bitch.  Collateral damage…..

[Alex_24]

^^^ Ouch [emoji21] that looks painful [emoji37]

[Giles]

The good news is, that I now have an equal amount of useful fingers as I have toes….

[A Former User]

@giles can’t beat the old singer machines. My grandmother bought this new, my mom had the motor changed in the eighties sometime, and I’m still using it today.

[Chris]

Did some cleaning and finally broke this one out of storage.
Originally built in 1904, refurbished in 2015.

[RoxRocks86]

Beautiful machine @Chris !!!

[dinobarnesberlin]

@Chris that one looks like new.
That blue/gold color scheme is nice.

[Giles]

What sort of bobbin does is take?  My 1901, has shuttle shaped bobbins, never seen them anywhere else….