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Felling Machine - Janome 9200D

Gernella

Stash extension 2024- 6.1 meters
Left at the end of 2023 - 66 meters now (includes fabric found hidden out of sight)  Lining fabric not included

Greybird

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2020, 23:07:35 PM »
That's the same as mine, but not what I call it!

Sewingsue

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2020, 10:20:40 AM »
Well if he has the manual then he should know what the machine is actually called.
Bernina Aurora 440QE, Brother BC-2500, Singer 99K (1938), Juki MO-654DE overlocker, Silver Viscount 620D overlocker.

Greybird

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2020, 10:26:44 AM »
I expect that's what his mother called it. What is that in the third picture? Doesn't look like anything I have.

Gernella

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2020, 12:00:11 PM »
I expect that's what his mother called it. What is that in the third picture? Doesn't look like anything I have.

And in the first picture as  well @Greybird , looks like a hook of some sort with a ring on the end. Probably don't have a clue and  more interested in the selling and money than looking in the manual to set it up.
Stash extension 2024- 6.1 meters
Left at the end of 2023 - 66 meters now (includes fabric found hidden out of sight)  Lining fabric not included

Surest1tch

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2020, 20:30:27 PM »
That looks like a 4 thread overlocker type machine to me, perhaps because I haven't looked for one 1 I wasn't aware there was a true feller available for domestic use. If you have a look on eBay there are a lot available but 99% are industrial machines and not even in my wildest imagination could I compare a proper one to that machine above. It beggars belief how people will try and con you doesn't it?

Lilian

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2020, 20:52:09 PM »
I checked the model number and it is described as an overlocker :[
Willing but not always able :)

Greybird

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2020, 23:10:30 PM »
So what is a "true feller"? The 9200D is indeed just a 4 thread overlocker.

fajita

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2020, 09:45:28 AM »
Google says

In sewing, to fell is to finish a seam by sewing the edge down flat. In this context, feller can refer to a person who finishes a seam in this way or to a sewing machine attachment that does it.

Feller | Definition of Feller at Dictionary.com

Helen M

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2020, 09:49:12 AM »
An overlocked seam and a (flat) felled seam don't look anything like the same though, do they?
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BrendaP

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2020, 10:09:25 AM »
Are sellers on ebay subject to the Trades Description Act?

Confusing an overlocker with a serger might just be acceptable - technically I think that serging means using the cutting knife as well as forming the stitches whilst overlocking alone doesn't; but generally it's just UK-US terminology - but to call an overlocker/serger machine a felling machine must surely break the law. 

Sowing machines and sawing machines also also technically incorrect descriptions, though most literate people will see that as spelling errors rather than a trully misleading description
Brenda.  My machines are: Corona, a 1953 Singer 201K-3, Caroline, a 1940 Singer 201K-3, Thirza, 1949 Singer 221K, Azilia, 1957 Singer 201K-MK2 and Vera, a Husqvarna 350 SewEasy about 20 years old. Also Bernina 1150 overlocker and Elna 444 Coverstitcher.
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Ohsewsimple

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2020, 11:41:36 AM »
If you type in felling machine in Google you get machines that .....fell trees!   :)
Other results are for blind hemmers . 
This Janome is definitely an overlocker as I’ve sold and demonstrated loads of them.   

Lilian

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2020, 20:11:56 PM »
So this might be a felling machine  :faints:
Willing but not always able :)

Lilian

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2020, 20:13:35 PM »
Or this  :faints:
Willing but not always able :)

Ohsewsimple

Re: Felling Machine - Janome 9200D
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2020, 20:37:48 PM »
Seems so.  Don’t get them confused with a tree felling machine! :laughing: