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3rd November 2019, 05:55 PM #16
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Been a while again not to much time in workshop lots of odd jobs and timber parcels arriving.
Hammer handles for one of the fellows from QMAC
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They finally got handed over bout 2 weeks ago life just got in the way for us both.
A simple Bobbin alteration to allow wider bobbin to fill to capacity had to remove 7mm from each internal arm.
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More UK timbers arrived lovely grained Yew and some tools also a 20 tooth ML7 gear and Record plough plane.
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Aldi had some artist boxes so I got Sue to grab me three this one houses my Dremel, another my Pen Turning gear, the third Microfiles.
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Then came the Pen Making
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3rd November 2019, 06:00 PM #17
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Big thanks to Fletty
Over the years on Alan's jaunts to the UK he has been paramount is playing courier of pen blanks between a decent Yorkshireman (Ian) and myself. This is the latest haul.
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9th November 2019, 07:53 AM #18
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Had to google "Inkle loom" Ray, but once I saw one set up I got the picture. Amazing how much I don't know!
I made a small table-top single heddle loom for my then partner back in the 60s, which was my first & last foray into loom making. I had very limited tools at the time, and I do remember being challenged to drill some reasonably centred holes in the bits of dowel (a cut up hoe handle iirc) for the rollers. There was a big craze on weaving at the time, but I thought it had died out completely since! I obviously don't hang around in the right places, 'cos it seems to have survived in favourable habitats...
Keep up the good work, but like Skew sez, don't tell our spouses....
Cheers,IW
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