Silver Reed Knitting machines from Red Barn Farm

The Silver Reed knitting machine family has the widest variety of machines available to the home knitter. Click onto the pictures to see a larger view and then use your back button on your browser to return to this page.

They are: LK-150 Fine-gauge (3.6 mm), 250 needles Standard-gauge (4.5 mm), 200 needles Mid-gauge (6.5 mm), 150 needles Chunky-gauge (9 mm), 114 needles The Japanese-made Silver Reed machines can be purchased as a punchcard machine or as an electronic machine. Because the distance between the needles varies widely, the number of needles on a normal bed varies widely. These machines may be purchased as fine gauge machines with 250 needles 3.6 mm apart up to bulky machines with 110 needles 9 mm apart. The farther apart the needles, the thicker the yarn which can be used. The closer the needles, the thinner/finer the yarn which can be used. Standard-gauge machines may accommodate thicker yarns by knitting on every other needle or every third needle. However, as the available number of needles becomes less, the width of the actual knitted piece becomes narrower. A punchcard machine can produce a pattern which is 24 stitches wide. However, that pattern can be repeated across the width of the knitted piece or positioned in a specific location, which is then called a motif. The pattern MUST be either 24 stitches or a number evenly divided into 24. An electronic machine can produce a pattern from one stitch to as many stitches wide as there are needles on the machine. Patterns are read into the knitting machine through a scanner called an Electronic Controller, with or without a Pattern Extender if the pattern is wider than 60 stitches. Silver Reed knitting machines may produce a wide variety of stitch patterns with little to no effort. You may knit a fairisle pattern; a single or multi-color tuck stitch pattern; a single or multi-color slip/skip stitch pattern; a drop lace, normal lace or fine lace pattern. You may knit weave on the machine. Using an optional ribber attachment, you can do jacquard knitting, which is fairisle knitting with no floats. Using your IBM-compatible personal computer and knitting machine software, you may scan in patterns to a program, manipulate the pattern in any way you choose, download the pattern and/or the shape, and knit it. Using drawing tablets, you may draw your own pattern into the computer or even have a child draw his/her own original creation which you can then knit. Additional optional accessories are available, such as a four-color changer, a garter bar, a linker, a transfer carriage. Each has its own function to either assist in the initial knitting or in the finishing process.

Main Bed	SK-830 Electronic Fine Gauge (3.6 mm)$1800.00 SK-840 $1500.00 Electronic Standard Gauge (4.5 mm) SK-280 Punchcard $950.00 Standard Gauge (4.5 mm) SK-160 Manual/Upgradable Mid-Gauge (6.5 mm) $850.00 SK-860 Electronic Mid-Gauge (6.5 mm)$1500.00 SK-155 Punchcard Chunky Machine (9 mm) $900.00 LK-150 Dual Gauge Hobby Knitter (6.5 mm)$399.00
Ribbers (Fit all except Dual Gauge Hobby Knitter) Knit ribs like a professional. Knit the full range of needle arrangements, 1x1 2x1, etc. Increase your stitch pattern potential by choosing from full or half Fisherman's rib tuck rib and slip rib to knit fashionable surface texture. Add extra colors and knit those floats in with double Jacquard. The same ribbers fit both punchcard and electronic machines so if you are upgrading to an electronic machine you don't ned to splash out on a new ribber.	FRP-70 3.6 mm/4.5 mm Ribber $795.00 SRP-60N 4.5 mm Ribber $650.00 Ribber Arm required for Manual Mid-Gauge $80.00 SR-860 6.5 mm Ribber $900
Intarsia Carriage	AG-10 for Dual Gauge Hobby Knitter $80.00 AG-24 for Fine Gauge and Standard Gauge $60.00 AG-30 for Chunky Gauge $90.00 AG-50 Electronic for Standard Gauge $600.00
Lace Carriage	LC-2 for Punchcard Standard $325.00 LC-580 for Electronic Standard $500.00
Fairisle Carriage	FC-6 for LK-150 Dual Gauge Hobby Knitter $180.00
4-color Yarn Changer	YC-6 For all Fine Gauge and Standard Gauge $325.00
LK-150 Accessories	AG10 Intarsia Carriage -- $95, FC6 Fairisle Carriage -- $240

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you take intarsia seriously you need an Electronic AG 50 Intarsia Carriage for your SK 840 standard gauge machine. Choose from five ways of incorporating extra colors or textures into picture knitting. Let the AG 50 carriage select the correct needles for each color. $600.00

LC 580 Transfer lace as easy as stockinet. The ground breaking Single Action Transfer Lace Carriage fits the SK 840 standard gauge machine. Now you can knit delicate lace patterns as quickly and easily as stockinet. $390.00

 

LK-150 Knitting Machine Click onto picture to see a larger view, then use your browser back button to return to this page. This is a perfect machine for hand knitters who wish to try machine knitting. Generally, set the tension dial to the suggested needle size and obtain the same gauge. For a DK-weight yarn that asks for a needle #6 and gets 5 sts/inch, set the tension dial to 6, the yarn mast to 0 and you will probably get 5 sts/inch. Then, just follow the hand-knit directions. Available Accessories: Knit Contour, Intarsia Carriage, Fairisle Carriage, Bed Extension

Red Barn Farm, Rose Herbst, 11843 Flambeau Road, Butternut, WI. 54514, 715-769-3773

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