Now have another old one ( Singer 29K51 "patcher ).and a couple of heavy duty "domestic" manual machines ( Silver 4048D.you see them in a lot of tech' schools in the UK, good all round machine to learn on, easy to control and they have top and bottom feed, very useful for sewing lightweight leather like 1 to 2 oz lambskin and goatskin in up to 4 layers ).cost about as much as drop feed basic industrial with table and servo.equivalent to the Pfaff Select 4.or the Pfaff "Jeans" Machine.A friend in France recommended them to me as she used one, and a "compound feed Juki industrial" in her business making Medieval costumes and theatre costumes all year round.For a heavy domestic machine they are wonderfully versatile.Ĭurrently looking for a cylinder machine for heavier work, and a zig zag machine ( Singer 20U maybe ) or something that does 4 point zig zag and can also do straight stitch.and an embroidery machine.
bought a Juki "top and bottom feed" ( which like the Highlead GC0318-1, can easily get through the thickness and feeds better than a bottom feed only machine ) and then watched the French equivalent of Craig's list ( "le bon coin" ) like, a hawk until I saw a good price on a compound feed machine ( Singer 211U166A ).and bought it too. Personally at that price I'd buy it and try to "get by" with it, and keep your eye out for a true "compound feed machine". The guy on Ebay is selling it for "whatever" reason. Highlead sell it for textile and upholstery leather work, where stopping the various layers from shifting around is not so crucial.
It is more suited to upholstery ( sewing two pieces of leather together ) than complex multi layered stuff like bags and wallets.īut, if it runs and has nothing wrong with it the price seems good compared with the new price, you might be able to use it for a while and then "trade up" ( let it make you some money and then sell it for what you paid for it or maybe a little more, and then put the money to a compound feed machine ). It will punch through the layers of leather that you need it to, but it is normally a garment machine that can do leather also ( but you won't have the control that you'd get with a compound feed machine ).That said if you are only feeding it 2 layers of leather ( like dog leads ) it would probably be OK ) wallets and bags, not so much. It is not a compound feed ( the needle does not feed ) but is a top and bottom feed ( I have an older Juki DLU 490-4 that is similar, top and bottom feed ) ( blurry picture, but that is what it is ) Visitors are welcome to come & try the Brother 755 at our Salford / Manchester warehouse.The machine on Ebay is actually a GC0318-1. If you are looking for a single needle, straight sewing, lockstitch machine the Brother SL 755 3A TR is well worth considering. Together with previous revisions, they have become one of the best selling & best known industrial flat sewing machines in use today. The SL 755 / B755 models are widely used throughout the textile & garment manufacturing industry. The SL 755 3A (Replaces: DB2 B755 MKIII) is the previous revision, from Brother, of their standard industrial high speed, single needle lockstitch sewing machine. High Speed single needle lockstitch machine. ** Product update: The SL 755 3A model was replaced by the Brother SL-1110 **