What machine do I choose?

[leonelinero]

Good morning dear group, I am writing to you this time looking for an opinion. 

I am planning to buy a cylindrical arm head to make backpacks, and accessories in leather and vinyl, or medium heavy material and I have 3 options of head models that are in my budget but the truth is that there is so much difference between each one and much less . what will be the best option 
 
these are my options

Pfaff 335 

Brother LS3-C53-050

SEIKO LSC-8B-1

Edited August 5, 2024 by leonelinero

[kgg]

 

59 minutes ago, leonelinero said:

that are in my budget

What is your budget??

1 hour ago, leonelinero said:

I am planning to buy a cylindrical arm head to make backpacks, and accessories in leather and vinyl, or medium heavy material

What do you consider medium weight?? How thick??

What size of thread do you want to use???

Are the machines being offered by an individuals or companies???

Personally I wouldn't choose either I would prefer to look for something with a wider range of thread selection as I think all three would limit the thread size selection to V92 max. I would suggest finding a Juki or clone as replacement parts and accessories are easier and cheaper to find.

kgg

 

 

[shoepatcher]

you can run #138 in the Brother which is like a 227 Consew.

glenn

[leonelinero]

44 minutes ago, kgg said:

 

¿¿Cual es tu presupuesto??

¿Qué consideras que es de peso medio? ¿Qué tan grueso?

¿Qué tamaño de hilo quieres utilizar?

¿Las máquinas las ofrecen particulares o empresas?

Personalmente, no elegiría ninguno de los dos. Preferiría buscar algo con una gama más amplia de selección de roscas, ya que creo que los tres limitarían la selección de tamaño de rosca a V92 como máximo. Sugeriría buscar una Juki o un clon, ya que las piezas de repuesto y los accesorios son más fáciles y económicos de encontrar.

kilogramos

 

 

The machines are offered by private sellers, I am not sewing anything very thick such as tanned leather, I am sewing a lot of vinyl and leather of a thickness similar to vinyl, I would like to spend no more than 1100 just on a head.

[Constabulary]

I´d choose the BROTHER - clone of a Singer 153w (but with reverse) or the later Seiko CW-8 and / or Consew 227R. Its a Singer based machine and parts will be available probably for ever and the accessories like presser feet sets are cheap.

Edited August 5, 2024 by Constabulary