Author: Bob

As I mentioned in my last post, the bobbin winder that I fabricobbled together for my 201K3, while it works with an attached belted motor, isn’t going to work with the servo motor setup that this machine is going to be using. There are a couple of solutions: Use another machine to wind bobbins. Buy […]

It’s been about a year since I had my own “personal” Singer 201 in my arsenal. I gave my last personal one to my daughter in law Christine (and that machine is one of the finest stitching 201-2’s I’ve ever seen), when I moved on to using a Singer 1200-1. Now those in the know […]

I recently posted a series of videos on my YouTube channel showing a fixture I designed to help when working on the bottom of sewing machines. I promised that I would put a measured drawing of the fixture up on my website when I had a usable one available. Well, not pretty, but here it […]

I’m a huge advocate of wearing a work apron. If your not the one in your household that usually does the laundry, wearing an apron is that much more important, especially if your tasks are dirty and/or greasy. Aprons are relatively easy to make, and are a great beginners sewing machine project. As a public […]

I have a tag line at the end of every one of my YouTube videos that says “Get a coffee mug! The world is so much better with coffee…”Well, I’m here to say that’s a true statement, the world IS a better place with coffee.I’ve been drinking coffee regularly since 1973, which is a long […]

One year ago today, I changed the trajectory of my YouTube channel from a few random woodworking tool videos, to one centered on vintage sewing machines (VSM’s). What a difference one year has made. I’ve gone from 83 subscribers to, as of a few minutes ago, 1030 subscribers. I’ve posted 59 videos related to VSM’s […]

My wife Liz and I are the District Directors of New Jersey Gold Wing Road Riders Association, an international motorcycling group whose motto is “Friends for Fun, Safety, and Knowledge”. A lot of our members are quilters, and when some of them from Chapter NJ-D asked if I would put on a “Featherweight Day” to […]

There really is no better feeling than when you can make someone happy. The Singer 66 you see here was shipped to me by a customer from Atlanta. It was gone from her home for exactly two weeks, including round trip transit time. Like all my customers, I kept her informed as to the progress […]

Here are a few pictures of a Singer 66-1 from 1917 I recently finished for a customer in Atlanta, GA. When she arrived, her mechanism was a sticky mess of old oil turned to varnish. Even her exterior bright work was covered in years of sticky old oil. Her mechanism was so gummed up, it […]

If you’re going to go bold, you might as well GO BOLD! My tractor paint experiment is finished, though as I type this only three of the four parts for the video have been published on YouTube. I’ll give it this, it’s bright. Not exactly “see it from space” bright, but you could probably pick […]