{"id":4215,"date":"2025-10-28T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:48:28","slug":"the-smyth-model-12-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"The Smyth Model 12 Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Greetings to those who are interested in Smyth book sewing machines!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATED November 2, 2025!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,13,24,951],"tags":[63,64,1084],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding","category-gadgets","category-history","category-printing-and-printing-processes","category-restoring-antique-printing-machines","tag-blognosticator","tag-brian-lawler","tag-smyth-no-12-smyth-book-sewing-machine-smyth-book-sewing-machine-manual-smyth-manualsmyth-parts-catalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}