I just bought one. Been using it for about a month. All i can say is wow. What a difference from my old Pfaff and Singer. Very happy with it so far. I did put an under drive pulley on. Because it was way to fast for my skill level. Bought off of ebay. With servo motor. Its a seiko. It does say made in Japan on it. The table did come from Chine. Great machine though. Model # STH-8BLD-3. Good people to deal with. Machine is very heavy. Like 80LBs worth. Altogether i probably have 1500 in it with gearing it down and all of the feet i needed. But it will sew anything you put under it and do a nice job.
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