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My wife spins her own yarn to knit so I thought I’d make her a lap spindle so she could spin while away from the house. I gave it to her for our anniversary a couple days ago. She then tells me she doesn’t like drop spindles (a lap spindle is a drop spindle with a stand). Oh well. She then said it was pretty [back peddling] and wanted to keep it anyway.
The spindle is made of left over walnut and spaulted apple for the wheel, ipe on the bottom and a brass braising rod on top. The base is made of a wild black cherry branch that fell in the neighbor’s yard a while back. It’s all finished with furniture wax which makes the ipe shaft spin nicely in the plastic bearings inside the base.
It was a little difficult to do on my small metal lathe with no wood attachments. I’ll have to get a proper wood lathe one of these days.
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Grumpy
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posted 92 days ago
Great effort on the metal lathe Rustic.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 92 days ago
Hi Rustic,
At times we make do with the tools that we have available to us. This simply reflects our adaptability. You did a good job with this. I really like the wood combination.
Thanks for the post.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.