Category: Plastic bed
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Silver Reed LK200 knitting machine
Silver Reed LK200 knitting machine, or La-La LK200, is a plastic flat-bed knitting machine with 140 needles, 6.5 mm apart. It is a mid-gauge machine with only manual/basic stitch manipulation capabilities. Silver Reed LK200 has features typical to Silver Reed, Studio, Singer, Empisal Knitmaster and Riccar machines: table clamps with elongated tops, and slightly slented…
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Silver Reed LK330 knitting machine
Silver Reed LK330 knitting machine is a plastic-bed knitting machine with 140 needles, 6.5 mm apart. This is a mid-gauge knitting machine with only manual stitch manipulation capabilities. Silver LK-330 was very likely manufactured for the Japanese markets only. It is very similar to a very famous a Silver Reed LK150 model, on which there…
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Silver Reed LK360 knitting machine
Silver Reed LK360 is a plastic flat-bed knitting machine with 150 needles, 6.5 mm apart. Unlike its later clone, Silver Reed KB360 (which was made in China), Silver Reed LK360 was manufactured in Japan. It has features similar to a very popular model Silver Reed LK150, on which a ton of resources is available. Thus,…
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Silver Reed KB360 knitting machine
Silver Reed KB-360 is a plastic flat-bed knitting machine with 150 needles, 6.5 mm apart. It is made in China, so probably is it one of the recent clones of the original Silver Reed LK150 or Studio LK150 knitting machines (manufactured in the late 1980s), also with 150 needles and also with 6.5 mm gauge.…
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Silver Reed LK-310 knitting machine
Silver Reed LK310 knitting machine (“LK” very likely stands for “light knitter”) is a mid-gauge machine with 140 needles. It features plastic bed and a simple carriage with only couple of pairs of levers. It works and looks very similar to a famous Silver Reed LK150 (a very popular, still-made, knitting machine). However, LK150 has…
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Brother KH400 knitting machine
Brother KH400 is a plast flat-bed knitting machine capable of accommodating panels with needles 9 and 4.5 mm apart. It is very similar to its counterparts, KH360, KH390, KH395, and KX395: not only are these machines also convertible but they have the same set of tools, including cast-on combs, and tension mast. The carriage design…
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Brother KM-100 knitting machine
Brother KM100 knitting machine is a plastic flatbed knitting machine with 90 needles in the needle bed. It is very hard to find any information on this machine. From the pictures, it looks like a mid-gauge knitting machine similar to Brother KX350. It is also very likely that it was made for Japanese markets only…
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Empisal HK100 (Hobby 100) knitting machine
Empisal HK100 knitting machine is a 8 mm gauge knitter with a plastic bed. It is considered a mid- to bulky-gauge. This is the same machine as the Singer HK100 knitting machine. Thus, read my blog posting dedicated to that machine and see it in action in my video.
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Brother KX395 knitting machine
Brother KX395 knitting machine is a plastic flatbed knitting machine with a dual gauge. It comes with gate pegs with the needle channels positions 4.5 and 9 mm apart. Thus, this machine can be a standard gauge and a bulky gauge. The carriage has an intarsia setting. The 9 mm setting can accommodate 110 needles,…
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Brother KH395 knitting machine
Brother KH395 is a dual-gauge convertible knitting machine. The panels for conversion from bulky to standard gauge are stored inside the styrofoam padding inside the box. The standard settings have 220 needles. The bulky needle bed panels can hold up to 110 needles. The needles though are the same for both bulky and standard knitting.…
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Brother KH390 knitting machine
Brother KH390 is a dual-gauge knitting machine. It features a plastic bed with a pretty pastel-green/white color combination. The bulky option of the machine features 110 needles. The switchable panels are nicely stored inside the styrofoam box. The machine should come with all standard assesories. But if not, they are easy to find (for example,…
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Brother KH380 knitting machine
Brother KH380 is a plastic flatbed knitting machine. It is a mid-gauge or bulky (I could not find more accurate info on it). Some sources claim that this machine might be convertible (dual gauge) but judging by the pictures I found online, it might not be the case (there is not place in the Styrofoam…