It's a Juki 562 walking foot.
And it uses the needle to pull the material instead of the presser and feed dogs.

I also have a Singer 251 on it's way up here too.

First project, a coworker's Chevy truck seat.

If you had some copper rivets, you could make Levi's, too!

Here's my Singer my older brother bought me.

Envy coming out. I can do basic sewing, and it's usually heavier duty stuff. I'd love a good industrial machine. Will probably break down and get one someday.

Juki is a great machine. They are tough as nails. Congrats on your choice!



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The Juki was $300 with the motor cabinet.

The Singer $100 with the cabinet.
But it needs the entire bobbin assembly.
I have one on it's way off E-Bay for $26

Awesome.

I'd like one for leather and other heavy material furniture work.

That's what I wanna do is upholstery and automobile trim work.

I can put you to work making sails and marine canvas. Want a part time job? Get your supplies and materials from Sailrite.

We may just work something out.

Sailrite carries come guide plates I want.

I'm impressed, there's nothing that you and your brother can't do.

Edit: Thanks, silly typing error.

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I'm impressed, there's nothing that you and your brother can do.

Might want to rephrase??

Nice. Have a friend that has an industrial machine, not sure about the brand. He used to repair parachutes.

Will a machine like that sew leather and heavy duty canvas and such?

Yes, it is made for vynil, leather and canvas.
The pull type needle and foot ensures the material is fed through, punching through is the easy part.
I'll run #17 and #22 needles.

The Singer will do work heavier than it's made for with a few small modifications to the feed dogs.
It will do canvas like it sits. French seams would be a problem though. Especially with vinyl.

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Originally posted by OKCGene:
I'm impressed, there's nothing that you and your brother can't do.

Edit: Thanks, silly typing error.

We try! When we were teenagers, wed sew our own car interiors.
My mom taught us the basics on her old black Singer 306, I believe it was a 1964.

An old gentleman that owned George's Auto Trim taught me to stitch car interiors.
I couldn't tell you what machines he had, I know the one I used was not a walking foot.
Everything was marked with a grease pencil, no metal guide plates.

I've considered picking one of those up to replace isinglass in Boat canvas.

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Nice. Have a friend that has an industrial machine, not sure about the brand. He used to repair parachutes.

Hope he had good insurance!

OK I cleaned, oiled and retimed it.
Someone had jammed it so bad, the safety clutch popped.
And it was gummed up with thread dust and wouldn't return properly.
After a good cleaning and an adjustment to the lock spring, it snapped right back into place.

So my $300 Juki works GREAT!




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/prtpKrcOl1Q

Practicing my seams!
I don't have industrial yarn yet.
But I can get the feel of the clutch. I wanna change out the drive pulley to a smaller one.