Thoughts on knits

Category: 8-button

  • Brother (Genie) KH710 for Larissa

    This would be my 10th push-button machine cleaned, serviced and tested for customers. I love push button machines for their reliability, resiliency, simplicity and hard work. Brother KH710 (aka Genie) is a metal-flat bed knitting machine with 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart from each other. This distance (4.5 mm) makes this machine a standard gauge.…

  • Brother Profile 585 for Georgia

    Brother Profile 585 is a 8 push button machine with a pattern center. Read more about this model in my previous post. Here is a brief overview of the setup prepared for Georgia with its pros and cons. The machine was cleaned, the pattern center was checked for all functions. All needles were inspected, cleaned…

  • KH585 profile refurbished in April 2023

    Brother Profile 585 (sometimes called KH585) is an 8-push button knitting machine manufactured by Brother Company in the early 1970-ies or late 1960-ies. It is one of the last machines (besides Profile 588) to have metal end caps, which makes this machine very durable, and easy to ship and handle. Its bed is narrower than…

  • Brother Profile KH552 refurbished in Mach 2023

    Brother Profile 552 knitting machine is an 8-push button knitting machine. It is probably the first 8-push button machine and it appeared on the market around 1964. The pattern center includes eight needle selection buttons, a reverse lever, a slide dial, and a set lever.  This is my fifth 8-pushbutton knitting machine refurbished and prepared…

  • Brother KH588 knitting machine

    Brother KH588 knitting machine

    Brother KH588 knitting machine is a gauge (4.5 mm) knitting machine manufactured in Japan. It features 200 needles and is capable of patterning using semi-automatic needle selection performed by 8-push buttons and a pattern center. It was manufactured in the mid-seventies of the last century. I could not find more precise information on their first…

  • Brother KH588 and Genie 710 knitting machines: same or different?

    Brother KH588 and Genie 710 knitting machines are both standard gauge (4.5 mm) knitting machines manufactured in Japan. Both feature 200 needles and are capable of patterning using semi-automatic needle selection performed by 8-push buttons. This website states that these machines are the same but my experience is somewhat different as I had a chance…