I sold two items on CL and bought another, this beautiful machine:
According to what I've read online and from the seller, this is a semi-industrial machine used in light manufacturing. The lady who owned and used it for years was a professional seamstress and sewed all kinds of fabrics and leathers, even upholstery. She passed away and the daughter had no idea what to do with it and was grateful it was going to be out of her garage.
(It's strange that a daughter wouldn't want to keep and treasure an item that her own mother treasured. Do you think that's strange?)
Anyway, it runs so smoothly and quietly that you'd hardly know it's an industrial machine by just listening to it. The Consew .33 clutch is rather nice and seems a good pairing for a light industrial application. There is a walking foot included as well as a bunch of other feet. However, I'm not yet sure what it's set up to do, exactly. I'm interested in reading the manual just to see what it recommends and whether I can denote the differences between this particular model and the 5-- series and other 6-- series Berninas. Not a bad deal for $90.
I've only owned it for about 2 hours, so I'm still just looking at it, seeing where to oil it, etc.
And in other great sewing machine news today, my friend Janet wrote that she has snagged a really nice machine for me in a nearby state. It's raining machines. I can't believe this is all happening!
