We repair and restore vintage electric and people-powered sewing machines from a time when things we See the website for a glimpse of the life at Leisureland.
We're independent sewing machine technicians who are hopelessly in love with the incredibly beautiful styling and quality of these fine all-steel-drive machines. Collectively we've been repairing and restoring vintage sewing machines for over 35 years. I've been a gas company crew leader, an electronic cash register technician, and an antiques dealer (among other things). I'm also eccentric, slightly cranky at times, and probably too sentimental. TR has worked for Singer and had the benefit of training from the Old Guys who've Been There for a Long Time. She's a musician (actually a locally famous bass goddess), technician, seamstress, artist, genius and all-around wise woman. Her cats and chickens follow her around with love and devotion. As a sewing machine technicians, we have hundreds of happy customers, and have restored hundreds of fine, vintage sewing machines. Find our website at StagecoachRoadSewing.com to see more beautifully restored Japanese, American, and European sewing machines, and to read about our amazing Lifetime Guarantee. We live off the beaten path, in the Coast Range of Oregon, alongside a pristine river, with a group of scientists, musicians, artists, and all-around geniuses.
12/05/2025
This beautiful Singer 301 will be going to Berkley, California.
This is one of Singer's best, ever machines, lightweight, easy-to-use, and she makes the same perfect stitch as her sister, the featherweight.
We are Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine Restoration and we've been restoring worthy sewing machines since the last part of the last century.
In this video, see how to thread the machine, how to wind the bobbin, and how to work all the various controls.we are Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine ...
12/01/2025
We are Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine Restoration, and we restore worthy machines.
An unfortunate ad placement in the UK sparked a wave of online reactions after a McDonald’s “McCrispy” billboard ended up right next to a road sign pointing to a crematorium.
The photo spread quickly, with locals calling it “unlucky timing” and “accidentally insensitive.” After the image went viral, McDonald’s acknowledged the issue and confirmed the billboard would be removed out of respect for the community.
The ad is now gone but the internet is still debating whether it was an honest slip-up or one of the most unintentionally dark marketing moments ever.
11/24/2025
Real, real pretty!
11/23/2025
This one's going to be really pretty.
11/23/2025
This one is going to be a pretty one!
11/22/2025
We rarely hand-deliver but I'll be in Portland on Monday, and will hand over this great Singer 1200 to Travis.
Do you reside in the Portland area? Here's an opportunity for you.
Do we have one that you love but it's not really shippable (like that nice SewMor zigzag treadle machine, for instance) that we can bring you?
Act fast! I'll be leaving here on Monday morning.
11/21/2025
Here's the final test/tutorial video that we made for Travis, on his Singer 1200.
Even though I'm pretty sure that these folks are pretty sewing machine savvy, we make a final test/tutorial video for each machine we sell.in this video, see...
11/20/2025
Jessica offered this pretty Precision Dressmaker machine as a partial trade when she made the long drive for a pickup.
It's a very lightly used class 15 machine, and after restoration she'll be gorgeous.
Though I have a few machines in the queue, I'm eager to get to this one.
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We're independent sewing machine technicians who are hopelessly in love with the incredibly beautiful styling and quality of these fine all-steel-drive machines. Collectively we've been repairing and restoring vintage sewing machines for over 45 years.
I've been a gas company crew leader, an electronic cash register technician, and an antiques dealer (among other things). I'm also eccentric, slightly cranky at times, and probably too sentimental.
As best I can figure, I’ve restored around a thousand worthy vintage sewing machines since I got hooked by them. Of course, every day I learn new things and better ways to bring back these fine machines.
TR has worked for Singer and had the benefit of training from the Old Guys who've Been There for a Long Time. She's a musician (actually a locally famous bass goddess), technician, seamstress, artist, genius and all-around wise woman. Her cats and chickens follow her around with love and devotion.
TR was my inspiration for learning to restore sewing machines, a long, long time ago. She performs our quality control final check, stars in our videos, repairs machines, listens with a sympathetic ear, and always gets excited when we bring home a cool, vintage machine.
New to our crew is Linda, a very focused individual when she’s detailing your machine. She came to us four years ago, cleaning and polishing the exterior of the restored machines. With her tiny tools and brushes she searches out the tiny accumulations of grime that hide in the corners, the screw slots, between planes of the machine, and in the knurling of the thumb-screws and brings each machine back to the best appearance possible.
For the past couple of years, Linda has been assisting with repairs and just recently she’s been applying her considerable mechanical talents to learn how to restore the machines.
She’s a lover of horses, kitties, and chickens, and besides the fine work she does with your sewing machine, she does horse-sitting (and other animals, too).
Even more recently, Joey has joined our crew as a detailer. She’s one of those people who just seems to be naturally good at everything she does, from making pies to brewing beer, to growing things, and detailing sewing machines. When Joey details your machine, she does it right.
When she’s not detailing machines or making something delicious, or just residing and being Leisurely, she returns to Portland Oregon, where she maintains her circle of friends and family, and is in demand as a model for artists and photographers.
Another personality at Stagecoach Road Vintage Sewing Machine has to be the bus. She’s our vintage sewing machine restoration shop, here at Leisureland Community. She’s set up with work benches, swinging stools, built-in vacuum system, sink, and more, but best of all is the light. With all her windows there’s finally enough light.
Our 1949 Diamond T school bus doesn’t travel any more, but she used to be a mobile dental clinic. The dental chair, swinging dentist and assistant stools, vintage X-Ray machine, suction, etc. all came out of the San Fransisco office of Dr. Painless Parker, a colorful side-show-type dentist from the turn of the last Century.
Dr. James Webb owned the bus and traveled the hip communities scattered throughout the mountains, valleys, and towns of the Northwest and Northern California bringing dental care to the rural-living folks there. More than once, a customer has brought a machine to be restored and looking up reminisced about staring up through our skylight as Doc Webb fixed them up.
If you’ve looked at the house bus book, “Some Turtles Have Nice Shells” you may have seen a little black and white picture of the bus, back when Doc Webb was set up in downtown Eugene.
Out here at Leisureland Community, we live off the beaten path, in the Coast Range of Oregon, alongside a pristine river, with a group of scientists, musicians, artists, and all-around geniuses. See the website for a glimpse of the life at Leisureland.
