More thread creep in response to JennieG's thread creep:

JennieG - My wife Susan is a quilter. In fact, when her old Singer finally gave up the ghost, I bought her a new Bernina. Now, you have to understand that, for a guitarist with an extra thousand bucks in his pocket, buying a sewing machine for someone else instead of yet another guitar for himself is quite an accomplishment. Sort of like if Faust had told Satan to "Go to Hell!" instead of selling his soul to him.

And, just so this post won't be all thread creep, I will add that those Swedish folks do build some nice machinery that doesn't exhibit some of the bad things we've been talking about in this thread. If everything was built as well as Bernina sewing machines, Husqvarna chain saws and Volvo cars and trucks there'd be a lot less complaining about the inappropriateness of modern technology.

Bruce