I don't know about you, but I was always curious because I
had heard so much about this machine but I had never seen one. Finally, one
day I saw one advertised on the net and bought it and I haven't regretted it
at all, as a matter of fact, I bought four more Afghaners! I sure wish Bond
and Knitsmart could have joined forces, then we might all have Bond/Knitsmart
ISM's, 6.5 mm midgauge-machines and 9mm bulkies too and be rulers of the knitting
world.......well, maybe!.........guess it wasn't meant to be......
This is the Knitsmart Sweatermaker (TM)
This is the machine I found on the net, it is the larger version
and has 104 needles.
This is the Afghaner (TM)
It has 54 needles but like the Sweatermaker and the Bond, it
can also be extended indefinitely.
Well, I have probably told you more than you
ever wanted to know about this machine! I don't know what the exact problems
were that caused Mr. Ruzio-Saban, the founder of "The Kimberly Market"
company to stop manufacturing this machine. But be that as it may, I am grateful
to both him and Roger Curry, the inventor of the Bond, for giving us these
little simple gems that make it possible for so many to be so creative in
a fraction of the time it normally takes to handknit!
