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  1. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Hi Guys, Yes, I'm still waiting for the slide-plate, which is currently on it's way from the Deep South of the U.S. I'm also expecting a box of Singer attachments from another source. I used SuperLube machine-oil to get this thing running. It was the one recommended by my local...
  2. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    The end is nearly in sight! The last thing I have to do is to join the shoulders! Well. It took several weeks of measuring, re-measuring, cutting, checking, pinning, checking, trimming, folding and countless stitches, all done by hand. But I finished! It's a snuggish, but comfortable...
  3. Shangas

    The nicest comment I ever heard

    That was very sweet and touching, G&T.
  4. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Hi Doc, The machine is nearly complete. I still need the slide-plate (on it's way in the mail, yay!) and a box of Singer 99k attachments (also, hopefully on its way). Then the machine will be complete!
  5. Shangas

    What are you listening to?

    Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester - "Dream a Little Dream"... Now "You're the Cream in my Coffee".
  7. Shangas

    What are you listening to?

    I am listening and watching Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester giving a performance of their concert "Heute Nacht oder Nie": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgtRvOEw9x8&feature=related Current track: "These Foolish Things" (1935)
  8. Shangas

    Titanic Centennial

    The reason the Titanic remains famous is because of what it symbolised. Man's progress and achievements. Man's confidence. Man's dominance and self-assured mastery of everything. But as the say, Man marks the world with ruin. His control stops at the shore. The Titanic was THE most modern...
  9. Shangas

    Average Wages during the Golden Era?

    Hi Liz, Thanks very much. I'm aware that around 1900, the average income for a middle-class family was about $1,000 (most likely, less) a year. $1500-$2000 seems like a pretty reasonable sum. I'll take that as a baseline, unless other members have more ideas and more clarity on this subject.
  10. Shangas

    Average Wages during the Golden Era?

    Hi everyone, First, I must apologise. I realise that this is an incredibly loaded question, bound to have as many answers as beaches have grains of sand. But hear me out. I'm a member of a local pen-collector's club. Mostly, we play around with, share, show-and-tell, and talk about...
  11. Shangas

    Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

    Thanks for the explanation, Brunswick! A lot of Jews fled Germany and Austria and Czechoslovakia in the years before the War. They went to England, America, Australia and Shanghai, in China. Jews were indeed put in POW camps in Australia during the War. But in about 1941, it was realised...
  13. Shangas

    Men's sarong

    My dad (Chinese-Malaysian) used to wear a sarong when he was younger. I haven't seen him put one on for several years now, though.
  14. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Every source I ever read said that it was invented in San Francisco.
  15. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Hahaha, Chinese Once-Removed!! I suppose that's one way of putting it. But yes, they're not known in China. If you went to Peking and asked for Fortune Cookies, you'd probably be laughed out of the shop. Confucius Say, take many nails to make crib, but one screw to fill. Confucius Say...
  16. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The discussion of Italian food and what's "real" Italian food and what's "Italian-American/Italian-Inspired" food, made me think of something else. The issue of what's "Chinese" food. And what ain't. Truth be told, a LOT of what we think is "Chinese" food, ain't actually Chinese. A lot of...
  17. Shangas

    Titanic Centennial

    Impressive but misdirected. You should've rolled it up and hit him on the head with it instead.
  19. Shangas

    Golden Era Passtimes / Hobbies

    If it's 1:1, can we come and visit? I can play "As Time Goes By" on the piano, if that helps any...
  20. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Before cleaning the handwheel shaft: After cleaning the handwheel shaft: I doubted that this machine had ever been cleaned or oiled or maintained properly ever since it left Scotland. The amount of gunk and fluff and dust and coagulated oil and other muck that I found was phenomenal...
  21. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    As some of you may know, last year, my grandmother passed away. She was a huge part of my life and without a doubt my closest and most beloved of all my thousands (no exaggeration) of relatives. She was a rich and impressive 97 years old when she left our mortal coil. Since her death in...
  22. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    That is a stunning watch by an excellent manufacturer. And what a story to go with it! Document it ALL, and pack it up.
  23. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    Thanks for the feedback on the stitching, Qirrel. It's a technique that I remember my grandmother using when I was a child.

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