i flipped an old bike over and used a 36cm double ended knitting needle as a bobbin place where the rear tire was.. it's like bicycles were made to become direct drive great wheels!!!
I loved this video! I’m purchasing my first wheel in a couple days, which happens to be a great wheel. I’m looking forward to it. Thanks for showing your first attempts!
Thank you for this great video. I'm an experienced spinner great at the long draw, and I had a lot of fun making beginner's yarn in my first attempts. My observation was that the flier wheels were not faster than the great wheel but easier to spin on especially for the novice spinner. I doubt experienced spinners switched wheels by choice. Part of why the great wheels continued to be made all the way into the early 1900s.
Your spinning looks like mine did before I learned about pinching with one hand to keep the twist from travelling into the fibre while it's being drawn to the right thickness.
This was great! I'm looking into buying one of these after using modern wheels. I appreciate your close up. Don't worry, we all spin bad our first time! And long draw is a little tricky!
Thank you for such a thorough review of the machine! I want to make one of these one day; this was very helpful in understanding the layout. Yeah, spinning looks easy in the videos....
I suspect given the difference in workmanship (and the lack of a method to prevent rotation) that the baseboard is a replacement. I would use teflon washers (like a modern spinning wheel) rather than leather if preserving it is more important than originality.
The parts pinned here would have been friction fit, maybe tapped lightly with a leather mallet or the back it a hatchet with a pot holder in between if that's what was available. Sometimes these get polished with use, sometimes well meaning owners who don't use it, polish them up to preserve the wood. Many wheels are Frankensteined with parts from many wheels or parts replaced over the years too. In 1804 the accelerator was patented and this replaced the mother of all on many wheels, they could not be produced fast enough for the demand. A simple device that doubled the speed of the wheel.
Please be careful, might be part of why the need for the pins. You do not want to wax and make slippery the places that require a friction fit to keep in place (age and use can pollish these spots too which may be why the pins were needed). The rest can be oild and waxed as much as you'd like.
I love it. I just hope I do half as well when I get mine set up to spin. I want to ask, is that a New Echota wheel? It definitely looks southern. On the MOA and wheel post, you could always wrap linen thread to help keep it from moving, but still allow you to adjust or remove it. Just a thought from listening to others more knowledgeable than myself. Thanks so much for sharing your lovely wheel and spinning.
Become the wheel, guy! It is not a jack hammer! it doesn't require much effort at all, just loosen up and establish a rhythm with your feet and hands. Start out with a clean, loose carded, short staple wool like Suffolk down. Let me know if you want to sell that wheel.
Awesome video!! Very cool wheel! I loved you spinning at the end!
i flipped an old bike over and used a 36cm double ended knitting needle as a bobbin place where the rear tire was.. it's like bicycles were made to become direct drive great wheels!!!
I loved this video! I’m purchasing my first wheel in a couple days, which happens to be a great wheel. I’m looking forward to it. Thanks for showing your first attempts!
Thank you for this great video. I'm an experienced spinner great at the long draw, and I had a lot of fun making beginner's yarn in my first attempts. My observation was that the flier wheels were not faster than the great wheel but easier to spin on especially for the novice spinner. I doubt experienced spinners switched wheels by choice. Part of why the great wheels
continued to be made all the way into the early 1900s.
Your spinning looks like mine did before I learned about pinching with one hand to keep the twist from travelling into the fibre while it's being drawn to the right thickness.
This was great! I'm looking into buying one of these after using modern wheels. I appreciate your close up. Don't worry, we all spin bad our first time! And long draw is a little tricky!
Enjoyed the video, loved the pets. Loved them.
Thank you for such a thorough review of the machine! I want to make one of these one day; this was very helpful in understanding the layout. Yeah, spinning looks easy in the videos....
Perma Pen thank you.
Thank you for this video!! By the way, I LOVE your bulky yarn!!
Beautiful!
So beautiful
I suspect given the difference in workmanship (and the lack of a method to prevent rotation) that the baseboard is a replacement. I would use teflon washers (like a modern spinning wheel) rather than leather if preserving it is more important than originality.
The parts pinned here would have been friction fit, maybe tapped lightly with a leather mallet or the back it a hatchet with a pot holder in between if that's what was available. Sometimes these get polished with use, sometimes well meaning owners who don't use it, polish them up to preserve the wood. Many wheels are Frankensteined with parts from many wheels or parts replaced over the years too. In 1804 the accelerator was patented and this replaced the mother of all on many wheels, they could not be produced fast enough for the demand. A simple device that doubled the speed of the wheel.
Love the music!!
Such a beautiful job on the restoration. The wood seems to glow. I'm curious what kind of oil and wax you used for the finish?
I use a we bit of Murphys Oil Soap to clean, and Howard's wax and feed on the wood.
Please be careful, might be part of why the need for the pins. You do not want to wax and make slippery the places that require a friction fit to keep in place (age and use can pollish these spots too which may be why the pins were needed). The rest can be oild and waxed as much as you'd like.
I have a walking wheel from my family that I am not sure about it’s condition. Do you know of anyone around Louisville that works on great wheels?
I love it. I just hope I do half as well when I get mine set up to spin.
I want to ask, is that a New Echota wheel? It definitely looks southern.
On the MOA and wheel post, you could always wrap linen thread to help keep it from moving, but still allow you to adjust or remove it. Just a thought from listening to others more knowledgeable than myself.
Thanks so much for sharing your lovely wheel and spinning.
That sounds like a good idea. Do you use waxed thread for this or just adding the fiber does the trick? Is it tied on in some way?
Become the wheel, guy! It is not a jack hammer! it doesn't require much effort at all, just loosen up and establish a rhythm with your feet and hands. Start out with a clean, loose carded, short staple wool like Suffolk down. Let me know if you want to sell that wheel.
logan pollock thanks for the advise. Not a chance of selling It!
Yes, part of why people enjoy spinning today is that you have to relax or it will not work. Relax into the rhythm.
I have one these, but mine looks more primitive and mybe older
:)