The Smyth Model 12 Manual

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Brian Lawler

Greetings to those who are interested in Smyth book sewing machines!

UPDATED November 2, 2025!

I had been dawdling on the scanning of the Smyth Model 12 instruction and parts manual. I am sorry. Scanning is pretty easy, but retouching and straightening the pages, then cleaning them up to be consistent is a lot of work. I put it off and off and off, until now.

I scanned the pages last week, and have since cleaned up all the pages and made a full-resolution version and a reduced resolution version for download.

Click on this link to download a PDF (both low-resolution and full-resolution versions are available.) of the manual. The link is below:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0b4a8h2w17lrc5uvu8xdh/AKeyyFjJ-FT4EfLYQ1IZgBw?rlkey=ku9onelycec5bkf61mk9t3c92&st=b207hj6q&dl=0

About Brian Lawler

Brian Lawler is an Emeritus Professor of Graphic Communication at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and was a Guest Professor at Hochschule München from September, 2021 to September, 2022. He writes about graphic arts processes and technologies for various industry publications, and on his blog, The Blognosticator.
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One Response to The Smyth Model 12 Manual

  1. Bev says:
    November 2, 2025 at 10:14 am

    Thank you so much!

    Reply

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