A replica of an antique French spindle made from a photo suggested to me by a client. It's about 11 inches long, 2 oz, and is made of Walnut.

Kriech-Spindelstrauch

This is Oliver the cat modeling an artistic neck and tip that a customer asked for.

You can see that the neck is tiered and there are pyrographed (burned) lines in the neck and on the tip.

The spindle is made of Walnut, weighs about 1.2 ounces, and is 11 1/2 inches long.

Bosworth Spindle, Karelian Birch Midi with long Cochin Rosewood shaft, 30g/1.06oz

Bosworth Spindles, Karelian Birch Midi with long Cochin Rosewood shaft, 30g/1.06oz, and Zebrawood Mini with Birch standard shaft, 20g/.7oz

.6 oz. Zebrawood Bosworth spindle. Purchased from Fire Art Ranch at the 2008 Estes Park Wool Market.

By Bonnie Sennott. Knit in fingering weight handspun mixed Bluefaced Leicester.

Euonymus europaeus

Here's my latest spindle. The woods are bloodwood (I think), wenge, and zebra wood. The spin is soft--not terribly long or fast, but very pleasant and quite well balanced. Notches are built in.

bosworth midi

Taken at Swansea Botanical Complex, Wales, UK. No graphics please.

Table with Spindle Chairs

Dimensions: 24" x 30" x 22 high

Spindle chairs: 13" x 14" x 26" tall (over arch from chair seat 11")

Medium Oak

this was featured briefly at the beginning of wayne's world as they were driving through "aurora." but it's actually located in a parking lot in berwyn, and i remembered seeing it many times as a kid. i wanted to go by there on our last trip to illinois, but my grandpa said he didn't think it was there anymore. however, based on other flickr users' photos, it appears that it is indeed still standing. i hope it's there the next time i make it up to illinois. it has since been demolished.

Spinning honey colored guanaco on my favorite spindle

Three of my supported spindles. Antique whorl from Israel, turguoise, soap stone.

I saw a picture like this on ravelry and said hey! I have that same box. And so I made a lazy kate for plying singles wrapped on tp rolls. The spindle is an Ashford 'classic' boat anchor, good for plying so long as I can rest my elbow on a countertop, it's so heavy.

5/16/08

The spindle is purpleheart wood.

Hand-carded Samoyed fiber from “Meijo,” spun on a Viking Santa purpleheart top whorl spindle. Very soft, like angora!

42.0 yards (38.4 m) DK weight skein

Why yes, I picked the spindles that matched the yarn I was spinning. too bad one of them broke, but if I find the missing bead I can repair it.

Walnut was chosen for the 11 3/4 inches long shaft of this elegant Tibetan support spindle. Dave has burn etched the canary wood whorl with his signature leaf motif. This supported spindle weights 47 grams.

Spindles Auto Club 32nd Annual Auto Show. Marshfield, MA.

handsewn spindle cosy with kumihimo strap, for jenkins kuchulu spindle.

blogged: anastasiahandmade.blogspot.com/2012/10/bits-of-before.html

w/ Morado shaft

22 g pin balanced

Tiny spindle, spins beautifully, travels well and loves to spin lace weight silk.

... of mahogany, a foot long, dressed to 50mm square and bored end to end. Ready for turning.

I was aiming for a shape I had seen in some Portuguese hand spindles, although I use this as a supported spindle.

A close look at the flowers of a flowering bush plectranthus (Plectranthus thyrsoideus).

Two spindle backed chairs that had one snapped spindle each - all repaired and ready to return to their owner.

A Spindlemaker sandalwood spindle stand. Say that three times fast

A pair of Rosy Spindle Cowries (Phenacovolva rosea). Seahorse Gardens, Port Stephens, NSW

Spindles on the tall ship Peacemaker.

Sheffield Park, West Sussex. Spindle tree.

Canary wood whorl 2.25" diameter, shaft 6.25".

Weight: 12 g. (0.42 oz.)

Notched at 6:00

Acquired May 2006 at Maryland Sheep & Wool.

Source: www.journeywheel.com/

It seems my precious spindle can be loaded with a lot of yarn even if the shaft is short (not too short for my very small hand)