I tried to save this 145 year old Sewing Machine! (Antique Victorian Sewing Machine Restoration)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Fixing up and cleaning this 1870's sewing machine was such an adventure! I really loved learning everything I could about The American Sewing Machine Company and even though the Singer sewing machine restoration and repaint ASMR videos I could find didn't give me all the info I needed, they were helpful in their own way!
I was also very grateful for the guidance of some of the vintage sewing machine groups I'm part of online, and might have already picked up another old sewing machine to fix up!
SUPPORT ME:
By becoming a patron and getting additional content as thanks for your ongoing support of my and my work!
/ emilysnee
Or if that feels like too much of a commitment right now, don’t worry. We can keep it casual and you can support me with a one-off tip on my Ko-fi!
ko-fi.com/emilysnee
Follow me on the Social Medias!
/ emilyjsnee
www.pinterest.co.uk/emilysnee/
MUSIC:
Covert Affair - Film Noir by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Artist: incompetech.com/ 
Хобби
Holy hell. You don’t know how helpful this is. I was gifted a treadle machine from this company for Christmas and I’ve been pushing off working on it. I’ve been so intimidated but your research just added another layer to what I’ve already researched.
All that technological complexity to sew a simple straight line. Amazing really. Makes you appreciate the time consuming but orders of magnitude easier HAND sewing!!! Something comforting to recall when the zombie apocalypse finally kicks in.
Gives me memories of taking apart my first saxophone for repair.
Fuck yeah!!! This video is awesome, it scratches the restoration video itch I have and it's also fun because you talked through it and you clearly care for that machine!!! It's not just restoring something to sell it
Now that was a restoration, but it came good in the end. Thanks for sharing.
See I thought I'd have a go at cleaning up my great grandmother's 1921 Singer but before long I realised I definitely don't trust my memory enough to take anything apart. I did treat the woodworm though. Nice work.
My great grandmother had a singer treadle sewing machine. My mother paid to have it refurbished after my grandmother died and I've not seen it in years. It was fun to play with as a child.
I had a treadle machine when I was a teenager in the 70's - I used it make patchwork leather handbags which I would sell to my friends at school. It would sew through anything!
What a beautiful machine! You've done a great job bringing it back to life, and it should reward you with many more years of beautiful stitches 💜
You did an amazing job on this machine! Loved that you were confident enough to just jump in, and would love to see more restoration content.
Merci de ce partage d’expérience ! Cette machine est très jolie !! Une compétence supplémentaire de qualité 👍🏻
Bonjour du Mans ! France 🇫🇷
🌸🌸🌸
Bravo! I haven't been brave enough to take apart an entire vintage sewing machine to that degree. With that said, when facing stuck screws I would recommend shielding the parts that aren't stuck or are painted and using a small amount of WD-40 on them, as opposed to dunking the entire thing in vinegar. I also highly recommend finding and using hollow-ground or precise fit screwdrivers instead of the angled flat-heads to avoid damaging screws.
With my father we restored a 120 years old Singer treadle sewing machine, nearly 2 years ago, but the table needs to be replaced fully as it bends too much, though I can still sew with it. I'm impressed how much those antique machines sew well
That is so beautiful. I'm a bit jealous. You did a wonderful job that I would not have had the patience for.
Vert cool. I also felt that I would forget where everything goes if a took it apart. Great job.
this is giving me the reminder to finish my vintage sewing machine restoration
Also fun fact vintage machines are ment to run with stacked spools vs crossed spools modern machines are designed to run with. I found out why my 100 year machine hated my nice new thread but would run great with the vintage thread I got from my grandma, Best of Luck
I just wanted to drop a comment here about your camera work. It's such a pleasure to watch your videos because you have such a good sense of what makes an appropriate shot.
Also - 19:25 Absolutely 👍There's so much old equipment of any kind you can buy that still does a great job, and I'm glad to see another example of this 😀
I’m the devil on the shoulder that’s saying yes to doing up more vintage sewing machines this was so lovely to watch! Breathing new life into something so old and beautiful what a wonderful piece of history! I can’t help but wonder what different garments it’s make throughout the years 🥰💕
There's a wonderful book called The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie that follows a 1911 machine from the factory where it's made through the generations to today which is a wonderful social and sewing history. In it, all the owners of the machine write notes on everything they make on it in a book, and sew a piece of the fabric onto the page, I can't help wondering what that would have looked like for this one!
My oldest sewing machine is a Kenmore manufactured between 1963 and 1987.
Thoroughly enjoyed this!! Was really cool to see how you cleaned it with power tools but also the simple white vinegar having such an effect. Bring on more!🤩
Epic project Emily! Fantastic that you got the machine working again, and it sews so beautifully. Can’t wait to see how you put it to use ❤️ Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Bravo!! As a vintage sewing machine junkie (I don't have any as old as yours), you might want to french polish/shellac the black portions and then use a good quality wax. The little metal pieces that you are concerned about rustic can have a kiss of wax too.
(My favorite machine was made in 1940.)
This was so fascinating and satisfying to see! Well done, it looks incredible. I have to talk myself down from anything like this as I specifically upgraded to an electronic machine to reduce my fatigue, so a literal manual machine would be a terrible idea, but they are so wonderfully intriguing. I'll happily keep watching other people work on theirs in the meanwhile. ^_^
If anyone needs advice on redoing old machines, Vintage Sewing Machine Garage and Andytube are invaluable. You do have a rarer machine, but at least the principles are the same. Sewing machine oil and 0000 steel wool are great for getting rust off metal pieces with less damage. The base metal parts that turned dark in vinegar can be polished up some. I also found that out the hard way! I always take lots of before and during pictures when I’m disassembling.
What a beauty! How brave you are! Imagine... just imagine how many iterations it took to perfect the design!
Singer introduced the vibrating shuttle into its machines in 1885 and survival bias (ie Singer made a metric f-tonne of machines) means there are far fewer transverse shuttle machines around today. So glad to see you got your machine working. I have a Wertheim treadle circa 1895-1905 that still rocks its transverse shuttle.
How brave of you to tackle that project. Fantastic result!
This was so cool to watch. Thank you for sharing the process
I just acquired a Wilcox&Gibbs c.1880 chainstitch machine and this is giving me some of the courage I need to actually attempt the bits of restoration it needs.
A mother-of-pearl inlay hand-crank machine... Well Done, You. It's absolutely beautiful. You're far braver than I am at taking the machine apart completely - then again, they are built like tanks. But I do agree that extra glass jars are the most useful creatures on the planet.
I, ah-hem, now presently have two machines that are about to have a new, um, baby arrive this week. My 1915 hand-crank Singer 99K came working - thanks to the two-owners ago lady (who collected) and her husband (who restored) arrived from the second lockdown. Then there is the 1949 Singer Featherweight whose last owner was named Star and never used it (she preferred the plastic modern). This week, if the FB Marketplace Gods (both the old and the AI) allow, I'll be bringing home a Singer Sew Handy "toy" machine.
And that's all I'm allowing myself to bring home ("I have spoken"? to borrow a phrase from the Mandalorian). Three machines that cover the 20th century - which is the period I want to concentrate on when I go back to school for my MA in Art History (leaning into the costume history side of things as much as possible). Besides which, I have some dolls from the 1930's that belonged to my late Mum that I want to make clothing for and donate to a local museum. Making doll clothing with a toy machine just seems right. I actually have the broken off-brand toy machine she had. So, this justifies my purchase of a Sew Handy? Is this just justification to bring home a machine that I could actually bring on a camping trip? Am I having an existential crisis that I'm trying to justify a third machine? Maybe. But it has all the parts and it is so cute and does a chainstitch...
In any event, you now have a machine that can sew through Anything. Enjoy!
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
You did such a fantastic job! I don't know if you ever got that/those screws loose so you could clean inside; but if you didn't, there's a product called "Liquid Wrench" that's a penetrating oil and will dissolve all kinds of gunk and may free up that recalcitrant screw.
Very interesting! I have an old sewing machine that could definitely use some similar tlc that I’ve been too intimidated to try yet lol
Go for it! The old machines are awesome
Even if I put the different bits in separate jars I would still have no clue which jar went with what bits of machine! I am in total awe xx
Unsolicited suggestion: take a photo with your phone before and after you remove each item.
@@katecapek3116 I welcome unsolicited suggestions! Xx
I loved watching this! I left buffet handles soaking too long in vinegar. So bad😢
More than likely, that large 'stuck' screw is reverse threaded. So instead of righty tighty lefty loosy. It goes righty loosy, lefty tighty. It's done that way so as the handle turns, it doesn’t constantly loosen that screw. Give it a try.
Lovely machine! I got one from 1912 ish last year and half assed the cleaning, because I was so excited to use it… seeing this was super inspiring and I might have to go back and really get in there with the q tips and oil
Amazing! You did such a huge amount of work and it totally paid off.
Congratulations!
It's so beautiful 😀💗
Danger! Danger! Beware, lest you end up with more old machines than you can fix. You are correct in that it is a slippery slope downwards (but at the same time, happiness).
What a lovely!
So exciting to see someone else tackling one of my favorite projects. For those screws that just wouldn't come loose, try soaking---and I do mean SOAKING--the screw location with oil and leaving it for several days. Each day, check it to see if it is looser. After about a week, if it's still not coming loose, use a hair dryer or heat gun on a low setting to gently heat the metal. Lots of oil, lots of time, gentle pressure.
Reminds me of a (far gentler) version of how we used to get "nature-welded" ball joints off of old cars in autoshop class - we'd light them on fire with a hand torch and let them burn off the grease inside them like the most redneck oil lamp ever, then beat the snot out of the warmed-up pieces until they finally released. 😆
@@sonipitts My spousal unit is a hobby mechanic…guess where I got the idea? :)
Beautiful ✨ I can’t wait to watch you make a dress on that beauty.
This is such a cool project! I’d love a machine like this, but goodness knows I don’t even have the space right now for a regular sewing machine (good thing I somehow have patience for hand-sewing!) I was so happy to see that you got this old beauty up and running so wonderfully. Hell yeah!
I think the green was the clear lacquer being affected. I had a section similarly affected by some long standing tape 😞
Lots of sewing machine oil and car wax from the feather weight shop later and it's completely unnoticeable!
Also from similar chome damage problems I found out that there are places that you can buy little chome plating kits from. You can just replate sewing machine feet in a little tiny cup!!
I had no idea you could do that! I want to buy that for my own machine restoration, yet I worry I will electroplate everything I can get my hands on
Wow, you did so much work and it turned out fantastic! Maybe you'll sew a dress from that era with it?
My machine (from around 1960) could probably use a similar cleaning, but it's difficult when the entire thing is a massive chunk of cast iron. 😅
So satisfying to watch
this is just one of the reasons I no longer go to any form of house sale/charity shop. I've got 4 working sewing machines (2 not and I'm not going to try) here, and a knitting machine. I got the bug from my father who is downsizing and may just have a feaatherweight..... That is such a beautid=ful machine though.
You go!! My old machine (it belonged to my mothers grandmother) is still in working mode, but I never use it. I prefer my 30 year old - very cheap Aldi machine - which still does an amazing job. Perhaps I should give it a go, I am tempted by seeing you restore yours. Have you made anything with it yet?
Kudos to you. What an endeavor! Let's see you sew something with it, pretty please :)
Absolutely blown away by your ability to take it all apart and then put it back together and make it work! Did you count how many parts there were? Or how long the process took? I usually put my rotary cutter, which has 6 parts, back together wrong when I change the blade, so you must have some incredible innate ability with spatial ability and mechanical stuff!
This was super interesting.
It's a pity the infernal thing didn't have it's contract... I mean manual, if they did have one that is?🤔
I have a very, very old sewing machine, I can not say the name as it is packed away. If I knew someone who could mend/restore the machine I would gladly give it to them.