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How to put your wheel together!

For Maria and Kostas: changing bobbins, tensioning, and spinning

For Maria and Kostas: tying on the drivecord of your wheel

BOBBIN BOY: newly designed direct drive / Minor's Head combo for a Great Wheel

Asheville Middle School Strings Ensemble, 7th & 8th grades: "Elegy and Dance", Richard Meyer 7 May 2015

This was a job done for Benjamin, whose first Great Wheel (which he has named Anastasia) came with a broken maiden and no spindle (totally typical!). See pics here, media/set/?set=a.449511495210523.1073741874.426941424134197&type=3&uploaded=2 Alan made a new maiden, fixed a split in the Mother of All, and made a new spindle. At that point, the ball is in my court. Here, I am puttin...

the spindle of the Great Wheel is directly driven by the drive cord that also goes around the wheel itself. Here, Alan Dewey of Bobbin Boy (see www.CHESSSPY.com) makes the whorl that fits onto a new spindle.

Spinning 101: Getting started on a spinning wheel. Treadling, tying a lead yarn onto different bobbins / flyer assemblies, tensioning so that the bobbin "draws on", joins (and the occasional knot :) ) and spinning Like what you see? pages/Bobbin-Boy/426941424134197

1 meter square, three simple machines, pop a balloon

We are on Facebook at pages/Bobbin-Boy/426941424134197?pnref=lhc We also are online at www.CHESSSPY.com

Like what you see? We are on Facebook at pages/Bobbin-Boy/426941424134197?pnref=lhc We also are online at www.CHESSSPY.com

Like what you see? We are BOBBIN BOY on Facebook, with our public page at pages/Bobbin... Also see more from us at www.CHESSSPY.com

Like what you see? We are BOBBIN BOY on Facebook, with our public page at pages/Bobbin-Boy/426941424134197? Also see more from us at www.CHESSSPY.com

Like what you see? There's more at our public Facebook page, pages/Bobbin-Boy/426941424134197 and also in the "woodturning" section of our website, www.CHESSSPY.com DIY folks! Here's an overview of making a spinning wheel bobbin. Alan covers rough-shaping the blanks for the ends as well as drilling the center dowel on the lathe. Like what you see? There's more at our public Faceboo...

DROP SPINDLE SPINNING: BOTTOM WHORL STYLE, BASIC TECHNIQUE

Creelman "Money Maker" Circular Sock Knitting Machine, circa 1876

FLOOTSIE MULTI-WHISTLE CASE: THE MOVIE!

FLOOTSIE MULTI-WHISTLE CASE: THE MOVIE!

WINTER STRINGS & CHORAL RECITAL, FINALE

STRINGS RECITAL, 2

WINTER STRINGS RECITAL,4

STRINGS RECITAL, 3

STRINGS ENSEMBLE WINTER RECITAL, 1

"Little Bitty Babe in a Manger", flute and vocal duet

Testing MACwhistles RAINBOW WHISTLES