Kenmore Model 49
Chain-Drive
This beautiful classic is one of the earliest home sewing machines to use an internal aluminum frame and steel drive-parts. It's covered on the exterior with a sheet steel skin, like an automobile.
This is a straight-stitch machine which, though not as powerful as some, will make a great entry for your collection.
Here at Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machines, we are passionate about what we do, which is to restore beautiful vintage sewing machines to the best that they can be, because we are in love with the entire genre. The styling, the quality of the materials, the workmanship that went into these great machines just can't be duplicated today.
You, seriously, cannot buy a machine this good, new.
So we search out the best of these fine machines, the ones that are very lightly used, and open them up. We disassemble the tension, the motor, the bobbin case, take off the faceplate, the gear cases, the hand-wheel, the slide plate, the bottom plate, and the back access plate and get down to where the old dried-on oil and grease are. We clean out the packed-in lint and dust, remove the thread-jams, inspect the hook and the needle plate, and generally look for potential problems.
We use high-quality lubricants in all the right places, getting into those spots that aren't as obvious to the average user, and clean out the old hardened grease from the gear cases, and we test the machines to make sure that they are sewing at their best.
Check out the chain driving this machine, it's like a piece of jewelry.
After all of this, each machine is carefully detailed, to bring out it's original beauty. These are some of the finest examples of mid-century styling that you'll find, and we want each machine to be the very best that it can be.
Because we believe in these wonderful, built-to-last machines and in the work we do, we offer this free Lifetime Guarantee:
If you ever have a problem with one of our restored vintage machines, just bring or send it back to us and if we can fix it, we'll do so for free. You, of course, will pay for any parts or shipping.
Read the details of our Lifetime Guarantee on our website.
And while you're there, check out the scads of beautiful, mid-century, Japanese, German, and Swiss-made machines that we've restored, as well as Swedish, Italian, English, American and more, many of which are for sale at this time.
If this is the machine for you, just click on the button, below.
$295.00