Originally Posted by SamHouston
A new addition soon will be our binding machine, waiting on that..patiently sort of.
Oh man, is it unseemly to drool over sewing machines? I've gotten so much better at applying binding than I used to be, but it's still my least favorite task.
Originally Posted by SamHouston
Thing is, all the sweet machines that do many things are either expensive from hell or cheap and don't actually work. Adam's Sailrite is a nice rig (btw sweet new table Adam), but is best suited to what he uses it for, wouldn't do so well with lighter fabrics/clothing.
I will definitely agree with this -- Sailrite says that it's fine for light fabrics, but it's not really. It can leave an imprint from the feed dogs unless you really back off the presser foot pressure, and I occasionally have trouble with it puckering lighter weight packcloth.
Originally Posted by SamHouston
A tough machine is important for us & these other guys here, but there is such a thing as overkill. I need my Juki, but then again, it will pick up a stitch though 45 layers of Cordura, or 35+ layers of 18oz vinyl, I make sample books with it occasionally. You might have trouble finding a practical application for that kind of power.
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Holy crap.