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Good sewing machine for canvas work, examples? Results?
I have a SailRite LSZ-1 UltraFeed. This is a walking foot zigzag machine.
It is heavy and can handle very thick canvas and sail material.. The main drawback with this machine is the lack of room under the arm. In general you can get buy with a lesser machine and one without the walking foot feature.. I have in the past.. The real advantage of the walking foot is better control of both upper and lower layers of the material.. With a standard machine, with only lower feed dogs, the material on the bottom tends to feed slightly faster that the top, so you have to manually compensate for this. (been there done that). It is true that you can find commercial machines, cheap that are walking foot, but it is rare and expensive for a walking foot zigzag machine. I would also say that zigzag is most important to sail making while canvas work can be done with straight stitch alone (especially if your using syntetics and use a hot knife for cutting and sealing the edges). Sail Rite is a well established mail order company.. Family owned and when you call you can be assured you will get very good information and attentions from one of these family members. I have never had any complaint with their products, material or service. Sail Rite has a facility to computer design and cut sails for you and deliver them all match marked so you just sew them together and finish the the edges, etc. They have instructional videos for most sail and canvas projects. Prices of for raw materials are slightly higher but often you won't mind since someone will be talking your through you project and make sure you get the right stuff. Enough Said. Steve s/v Good Intentions |
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