Industrial Sewing Machine Supports

[nplocek]

I'm new to leatherworking and I picked up an old singer dressmaker (1500-2) for cheap just to get started. I have an old wood table and base for it but I don't know what holds the machine up. I see a place for hinges (that I'll have to purchase) on the back but nothing on the front or underneath. Could someone post a picture of their table with the machine tipped back so I can figure out what else I'm missing? Thanks!

[TinkerTailor]

Just a heads up, before you put any time or money into that machine, You should be aware that it is not well suited to leather work. It is designed as a high speed fabric tailoring machine. It is not going to have the punch, foot lift or thread size capability to sew leather. It will also run way too fast for sewing leather. Most leatherwork is done on walking foot machines because leather does not slide under feet like cloth does. Most leatherworkers have machines that go as slow as 1/2 stitch per second. Yours likely is designed to stitch at 1000+ stitches a minute. The needle will glow red hot if you sew leather that fast.

Second heads up is judging by the amount of info on it online, it is not a common machine, meaning parts may or may not be an issue.

If you do want to put some time into this machine, here is the manual:

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/153891/Singer-1500-2.html

It has parts pictures of a table hinge accessory that may give you an idea how the table works.

If you are looking for a leather machine, there are great tutorials and a whole bunch of bunches of threads talking about what machine is what, Which one gets used to make different types of things, thread capacity, what machines have parts, what machines are plentiful and cheap, etc.

There is alot of discussion.....Some of us may have a little bit of an obsession....Others have used and owned dozens of machines professionally.

Your new mantra will be "compound feed walking foot".........