The Sewing Machine Master Guide: From Basic to Expert

pas pour les non-initiés mais excellente info des généralités concernantes des machines à coudre not for the fainthearted beginner - but it is excellent information for the different machines you can buy

Ottimo testo per uso generico e manutenzione della macchina da cucire. Sembra quasi un testo da meccanico. Spiega bene funzionamento è differenza tra modelli e tipi. Inoltre va molto a fondo sulla manutenzione. Non si può considerare un testo di taglio e cucito, in quanto si concentra prevalentemente sulla macchina. Ottimo per sviscerarne gli "inner working"

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*Como contras: -Fotos en blanco y negro -Viene a ser un Kindle imprimido casi directamente lo que hace que desluzca -Enfocado al mercado americano -Esta en ingles y no todo el mundo lo podra disfrutar *A favor: TODO EL RESTO !!!! -Opinion practicamente imparcial del mercado de las maquinas de coser, tanto caseras como industriales, diciendo claramente por lo que merece la pena pagar y por lo que no. Se nota que el autor es un consumidor y no un comercial. -Describe pormenorizadamente las partes que componen la maquina de coser, su funcionamiento, las variedades (por ejemplo, lanzadera horizontal y vertical) con sus ventajas e inconvenientes, tipos de prensatelas,... -Trucos sobre calibrar la tension, que tipo de hilo usar, agujas, telas,... -Mantenimiento de las maquinas de coser -Historia de las maquinas de coser con modelos ampliamente vendidos (mercado americano, recordemos, nada de ALFA o similares) Ojala se hicieran mas libros como este con opiniones imparciales (con las que podras estar de acuerdo o no pero imparciales al fin y al cabo) en los que se demuestra que no por gastarte mas dinero en una maquina de coser tienes porque hacer una mejor compra.

Even though this is a vanity published book my goodness it contains a lot of information and frankly I can't see why a publisher wouldn't want it. It's enabled me to move from being a sewing machine owner who can do a basic clean up and service to someone who can identify and fix quite a lot of other problems too. The most useful advice it contains is on doing easy and deep servicing on your machine and with this info you may find you never again need to pay to have a machine serviced. I've certainly fixed my own and other people's basic problems, such as tension instability with the help of this book. It doesn't completely negate the need for a sewing machine engineer but it will certainly save you money every time the tension on your machine becomes unstable and cannot be fixed using the tension dial. Frankly, tension problems hardly ever have anything to do with upper or lower thread tension (unless you've just bought a new bobbin case) and moving the tension dial hardly ever fixed anything either. On the other hand keeping your machine lint free, changing needles regularly and making sure to use the same manufacturers threads (of the same weight) in both bobbin and upper thread will solve a lot of very common problems. Anything that cannot be solved by the above good practice is probably covered in this extremely useful book.