JUKI MO654DE Portable Thread Serger Sewing Machine

This is my fifth serger and, so far, my favorite. For the last five years I have mostly sewn on a Baby lock Imagine, and then a Baby Lock Evolve. These are excellent, very easy to use sergers, but very expensive. In addition, I found the Evolve, the one I used the most, had trouble going over thick seams. When the Evolve was getting serviced earlier this year I bought a vintage Juki (MO-104) and loved it but decided I needed a more modern one with differential feed and a rolled hem.

This Juki has it all. It is very stable--never moves around when you're serging--has a wonderful knife set-up that cuts through anything smoothly, and has a beautiful rolled hem, either two or three thread. It doesn't have the jet air threading of the Baby Locks, but threads easily. Everything is color-coded. The tensions are also very easy to set. I haven't had any problem with them at all.

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I had a top line Pfaff which died prematurely. Great facilities but always very difficult to thread and tension correctly. On replacing it I decided that I did not use all features but just needed a machine which was easy to thread and which worked whenever I needed it to. I was disappointed that the specs did NOT state that the unit was a 120V unit only, so first addon purchase was a stepup converter for 240V. Despite that hiccup, the unit purred into life, was very easy to thread and then produced a perfect test piece. Speed control is very precise and the seam allowance markings make life very comfortable. I cannot wait to put it to work on my backlog of adjustments, etc. I have now ordered the set of additional feet so that I can blind hem.

I had one of this model for 8 years and just purchased my second one. This is a great machine for small business & high volume home use. holds up to the workload, great speed & smooth sewing, comes threaded which helps for the first time owner in learning how to thread. very dourable. Great price for being such a workhorse. planning on buying another one soon! this is an awesome machine.