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It maybe just me but white thread distracts from beautiful tooling.

They will charge HST regardless of personal or business use. I am not sure there is a duty on top of that for a sewing machine, you can call CBSA in advance and ask for a clarification. They will likely want you to provide the tariff code (hoping it's called that way). This is the same code I have to pick on Canada Post Electronic shipping tool web site every time I am shipping out of the country. Depending on the code there may or may not be a duty on top of HST. I would call and ask them questions. Explain that you are buying for your personal use, and if they ask why you want an industrial machine, just tell them the truth: that there is no household/consumer grade machine available, which can perform the same type of work. People at the border may or may not be very knowledgeable about importing machinery or tools, but if you have a reference to a prior call that would be helpful. I was once delayed and interrogated for 3 hours because they did not know the law and did not want to admit that. So I would call in advance and clarify all questions.

Is this just a knurled bushing on a rotating shaft? These should be dime a dozen.

I can confirm with 100% certainty that the above pictured molds are cast. The only other technology which could produce a similar surface pitted pattern could be powder metallurgy, but that would make them even more expensive. Bolting or brazing (heck, even soldering!) bars onto a plate to reproduce the above should not be difficult for any machine shop with a band saw, mill and a belt sander. But I personally would try casting them out of pot metal or zinc using a fresh plastic one for a template first, before outsourcing to a shop.

Closed end can be always created with a few stitches and hidden in the material.

You know the meaning of overkill! Great work.

Just remember that this is a household grade machine, even though back then they made household machines to do a very wide range of stitching. I do not see the lifter in the picture, but I am sure it can't pull large thread through heavy leather w/o breaking. My old hand cranked Singer works with anything from finest batiste to heavy denim and felt, but leather - not so well.

This looks like a machine for doing fishtails on belts rather than zigzag. But I can only see one side of the drum near the needle bar from here.

This is an absolutely stunning piece of work!

Welcome to Canada then! I am sure you'll get to love and hate it at the same time pretty soon. Feel free to PM me on here if you have any questions - I can't promise I will have all answers, but I'll try to help.

Canadian bucks in circulation in Croatia? That's something new LOL. But seriously, this is a great wallet!

This one looks like consumer grade, is that correct?

If wallets is the only thing you are ever going to stitch, you can use any walking foot machine, like Wiz said, but if you would ever want to stitch other goods, like gloves, hats, purses etc, get a cylinder bed machine. Cylinder bed doubles as a flat bed just like that or with a table attachment, but you can't do on a flat bed what requires a cylinder bed. For instance, replacing zippers in boots is a breeze on a cylinder bed (some may argue this is a job for a shoe patcher, but I contend it is absolutely doable on Pfaff 335) but try that on a flat bed and it's impossible.

Folks, Does anyone have experience with ironing boards better than what can be found at department stores? I would like to make a Christmas present to my wife who does a lot of ironing for her dressmaking projects and and just wore out her current board (iron mesh started falling apart and legs are on the way out). What brand/model could you recommend? Appreciate the input!

Had one hiccup with thread exchange where color did not match, not even close, and they would not agree to exchange. Not buying from them ever since as they got their pants in the knot instead of resolving it. How would you feel about ordering grey thread and receiving pitch black, then having to fight them to even acknowledge the issue, sending pictures and getting nowhere?

I would say, phenomenal!

Huh, where's the lever?

Mine is the old casting -17, so I get the small bobbin then. Thanks again!

Was shopping for bobbins and came across a listing on Ali Express where the seller was showing 22 x 12.6mm bobbin with a 6mm hole. The bobbins I am currently using are 22 x 9mm with a 6mm hole. Is he wrong or does my machine have a wrong bobbin case and hook assembly?

Superb work!

And the asymmetric feed dog for binding operation. With a matching presser foot.

I guess, 1 - binder 2 - stitcher

I find that Grainger is the kind of business where you get somewhere only with a walk in.

How old is that compass?

The torque on the pulley is not too big, you may be able to get away with a split bushing and no woodruff key