I've just laid my hands on a beautiful old Singer sewing machine, and
want to turn it into a dining table... Can anyone recommend me a glass
workshop who'd be able to cut me a tabletop and bond it onto some
custom fittings so that I could mount it on the sewing machine base?
I'm in Hertfordshire but anywhere in London region would be fine.

Thanks a bunch,
Tasha

j-chan wrote:

I've just laid my hands on a beautiful old Singer sewing machine, and
want to turn it into a dining table... Can anyone recommend me a glass
workshop who'd be able to cut me a tabletop and bond it onto some
custom fittings so that I could mount it on the sewing machine base?
I'm in Hertfordshire but anywhere in London region would be fine.

Thanks a bunch,
Tasha

a glazier perhaps?

You'd need the glass ground to give a smooth edge, and toughened for
safety. You could use the cheaper laminated, but it wouldnt be nearly
as strong, so go for toughened.


NT

In message .com,
j-chan writes
I've just laid my hands on a beautiful old Singer sewing machine, and
want to turn it into a dining table... Can anyone recommend me a glass
workshop who'd be able to cut me a tabletop and bond it onto some
custom fittings so that I could mount it on the sewing machine base?
I'm in Hertfordshire but anywhere in London region would be fine.

Most proper glazing supplies I would expect

It's the sort of thing which I would expect Bridgewater glass in Watford
to do

44-52 Vicarage Rd
Watford WD18 0EN

Tel. 01923 237533

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geoff

Great, thanks all for the advice! Will give it a try.

Tasha

On 1 May 2006 10:25:48 -0700, wrote:

a glazier perhaps?

Unlikely these days though. Most "glaziers" are just in the business of
sticking in sealed units. Finding someone who actually works glass at
this level is likely to need a dozen phonecalls before you get the right
one. They're out there, but don't expect anyone and everyone you call
to be capable or interested in doing it. I'm on about my fourth glazier
before I found one that was consistently good.

Personally I wouldn't use glass here anyway. Wood or stone - glass looks
too modern(ist) to sit happily on top of a sewing machine base.

In article .com
j-chan wrote:
I've just laid my hands on a beautiful old Singer sewing machine, and
want to turn it into a dining table.

I don't get it - pubs were using treadle bases for 'characterful' tables
twenty years ago, yet still people think it's stylish or interesting or
.... something?

Andy Dingley wrote:
On 1 May 2006 10:25:48 -0700, wrote:

a glazier perhaps?

Unlikely these days though. Most "glaziers" are just in the business of
sticking in sealed units. Finding someone who actually works glass at
this level is likely to need a dozen phonecalls before you get the right
one. They're out there, but don't expect anyone and everyone you call
to be capable or interested in doing it. I'm on about my fourth glazier
before I found one that was consistently good.

Personally I wouldn't use glass here anyway. Wood or stone - glass looks
too modern(ist) to sit happily on top of a sewing machine base.

Ring round yellow pages...till you find someone who will cut and toughen
safety glass for you.

Lots of people do...plenty of custom showers, patio doors and the like
to be made ..

Try under 'glass' ;-)

Rob Morley wrote in
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In article .com
j-chan wrote:
I've just laid my hands on a beautiful old Singer sewing machine, and
want to turn it into a dining table.

I don't get it - pubs were using treadle bases for 'characterful'
tables twenty years ago, yet still people think it's stylish or
interesting or ... something?

I think it says something about Singer machines. Now if it had been a
Bernina, it would be used for sewing...

--
Rod

In article
Rod wrote:
Rob Morley wrote in
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In article .com
j-chan wrote:
I've just laid my hands on a beautiful old Singer sewing machine, and
want to turn it into a dining table.

I don't get it - pubs were using treadle bases for 'characterful'
tables twenty years ago, yet still people think it's stylish or
interesting or ... something?

I think it says something about Singer machines. Now if it had been a
Bernina, it would be used for sewing...


I have a few old Singers (from 1917 to 1959) and they all work fine. I
don't think the newer ones last as well.