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Hello! My name is Nash Page and I'm generally your mechanic for just about everything related to sewing machines and other small equipment relating to the textiles industry. I have experience with just about every straight stitch machine available, and have worked with almost every other form of machine that doesn't solely rely on electronics to run properly. Those are better run through the warranty division of where they are purchased, but I can at least quote them.
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My history of working with sewing machines started back in college at NCSU when I was a facilities helper near/around the education and design schools. My primary focus was what was lovingly called the "teaching engineers how to use their equipment" minor, but I also helped maintain the wood, metal, and textiles shop machinery. There's many stories mixed in there, but that's the gist of it.
Later, I met my eventual wife, Dara Page. She has an almost exclusive background in textiles, and eventually had someone work on her machines that damaged them more severely than they could repair around 2011. So, since three machines had been busted, I decided to try my hand at figuring out their inner workings and cobbled together one fully functional machine out of the bunch. The other two machines are kept as center pieces in my shop (where I can also steal other parts to get their third brother functional if broken).
I found that I had a knack, almost as if the machines spoke with me.
Dara managed to find someone better versed in the workings of various sewing machines, so I apprenticed under him for a few months and got a lot of experience. The experience taught me that there is no standard "rinse and repeat" method to fixing a machine, and that you have to listen to it and work within it to figure out what it needs to be brought back to "life." It's easier and less weird than it sounds, but Dara usually tells me I am a machine wizard and leaves it at that.
My background is in History, theater, carpentry, metalwork, and a ton of other random certifications and qualifications that make my resume seem more like the class list of a trade school than the skill sets of one person. There's always more to learn.
Later, I met my eventual wife, Dara Page. She has an almost exclusive background in textiles, and eventually had someone work on her machines that damaged them more severely than they could repair around 2011. So, since three machines had been busted, I decided to try my hand at figuring out their inner workings and cobbled together one fully functional machine out of the bunch. The other two machines are kept as center pieces in my shop (where I can also steal other parts to get their third brother functional if broken).
I found that I had a knack, almost as if the machines spoke with me.
Dara managed to find someone better versed in the workings of various sewing machines, so I apprenticed under him for a few months and got a lot of experience. The experience taught me that there is no standard "rinse and repeat" method to fixing a machine, and that you have to listen to it and work within it to figure out what it needs to be brought back to "life." It's easier and less weird than it sounds, but Dara usually tells me I am a machine wizard and leaves it at that.
My background is in History, theater, carpentry, metalwork, and a ton of other random certifications and qualifications that make my resume seem more like the class list of a trade school than the skill sets of one person. There's always more to learn.