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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Grappling with hipster-hate

We were evaluating whether to get my wife's '75 Elna Super SU rebuilt (the buttonhole cam blew) or buy something new. This was when I discovered that the only Swiss left in the business were Bernina, they only had one mechanical, that mechanical wasn't as feature-rich as the Super SU and holy shit the high end on sewing machines had gone batshit.

You're right - embroiderers aren't expensive. Really, they're a bunch of stepper motors and an ASIC controller. But we're talkin' the cadillac envy machine of all sewing machines and it still costs less than the coffeepisser once you add in, you know, a water heater.