chrisash Report post Posted September 7, 2018 Just show you can get carried away collecting sewing machines Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrisash Report post Posted September 7, 2018 Just show you can get carried away collecting sewing machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yxsKCiBXuA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alpha2 Report post Posted September 7, 2018 Wow. I have one machine. He's got me beat! I can't imagine anyone has more than that. Jeff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt S Report post Posted September 7, 2018 Domestics don't really float my boat but that's a lot of machines. Something to show Her Indoors next time a suspicious piece of vintage iron follows me home: "Yes, it's another machine but look at this, it could be much worse!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Constabulary Report post Posted September 7, 2018 Thats real amchine hoarding. That guy needs professional help, I think. I would not even touch 90% of that stuff but everybody has his own preferences. Nice filthy chair at 00:51 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jbinpa59 Report post Posted September 11, 2018 And my wife thought I'm bad for having 8 singer domestics from 1906 to 1963, a cb3200, a cb4500, the Kenmore I bought as a 20yr old, And a Chinese cobbler He must of been buying every thrift store / auction / estate sale pound puppy within 50 miles for the last 20 years! I could maybe find two or three black singers in clean enough condition to be interesting in the entire lot, the rest? Bleh! Course I'm still trying to figure out the gazillion singer industrial variants looking for the one's good for leather and potentially reasonably affordable Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJole Report post Posted September 12, 2018 I think this guy won the contest! Did he have a purpose for such a collection, or is it just compulsion? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheilajeanne Report post Posted September 12, 2018 (edited) If you listen to the video, he talks about it taking two or three machines to repair one. He also said the Singers with the 'nice de-cals' (never heard it pronounced THAT way!) were sold. So, he's more than just a hoarder. Edited September 12, 2018 by Sheilajeanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handstitched Report post Posted September 12, 2018 I have 4 machines , all in use , 5 if i include the old domestic Necchi Supernova ( not used much) 9 hours ago, Sheilajeanne said: If you listen to the video, he talks about it taking two or three machines to repair one. yeh, I heard that, those machines were mostly part machines as he mentioned . But what a collection eh ?? HS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheilajeanne Report post Posted September 12, 2018 (edited) My thoughts are the fact he's repairing and selling some of the machines doesn't mean he's NOT a hoarder. When I saw his 'showroom' I thought no one who's seriously interested in selling machines would let someone/anyone sit down and sew with them. Treadle machines take a fair bit of skill and practice to sew with, and you can mess them up pretty badly if you don't know what you're doing! (Yeah, speaking from experience here... ) Also, he mentions the show room isn't open yet. Um, he's been doing this for over 2 years, and the show room isn't open?? He can't be very serious about selling the machines, if that's the case! Edited September 12, 2018 by Sheilajeanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gregg From Keystone Sewing Report post Posted September 13, 2018 Sadly, it's too late for me to be saved. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gordond Report post Posted September 24, 2018 Hi Gregg Yes I'm afraid so... whilst I have a half a stories worth.. you have 4 !!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darren Brosowski Report post Posted September 27, 2018 On 9/13/2018 at 10:43 PM, Gregg From Keystone Sewing said: Sadly, it's too late for me to be saved. You and me both Gregg. If the price is right I cannot walk away and I have fallen in love with the 1950's to 1960's Japanese central bobbin machines. The only thing not in my collection - yet - is a Japanese vibrating shuttle zig-zag machine...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
