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Drop spindles collected from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Guatemala.
This front side view shows that the spindle has extended all of the way up to the bolt shoulder.
The crankarm can not be tightened.
The aluminum in crankarms is malleable and will stretch with repeated installation and removal. Also from overtightening.
Riding on a loose crankarm can also contribute to this problem.
In this case, it's an old crankarm that's been stretched plus a spindle with a square that's a little too long (manufacturing tolerances).
A brief explanation of some of the physics behind spindle spinning, including why bottom whorl spindles are more stable.
If you'd like to use this image in a spinning class, please contact me and I can send you a higher-quality PDF that will print out nicely.
"A blessing on the soul" is the inscription that Dave has carved into the 1 1/2 inch diameter moose antler whorl of this Tahkli support spindle. This 8th century Ogham blessing was first discovered on an ancient spindle whorl in Buckquoy, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland in 1970.
My son broke my spindle after finishing just one project with it (well actually, just the singles). I usually keep it better protected but I left it sitting on a shelf for a couple hours. The next thing I know he was carrying it to me saying "Mommy? did I broke it a little? "
I will of course be sending it back to the maker and paying for a repair if he does them, because it was a lovely spindle in all respects.
Greenish twigs and tiny opposite buds. The older twigs can be very obviously ridged, though this character does not work as well as some literature suggests.
I went to Lowes and found all the pieces (except for the skate bearing) to build my own Kick Spindle. Its a kind of supported Spindle for spinning wool. I'm so happy with it. What do you think??
Got texture?
Software: Photoshop CS5, Photomatix, Topaz Adjust, Topaz Detail, Topaz DeNoise 5
What tripod leg?
I'd knitted the whole thing right from the the drop spindle. It's fun. SInce the single isn't balanced by another ply, there's a bias to the straight stockenette cloth. But since it's a tube, the bias only serves as a pattern rather than a way to stretch a square out of shape. It's pretty cool.
The spindle is the Bosworth mini spindle, in tulip wood.
And when I dyed this, I was trying for a green-yellow-orange threesome of analogous colors, they blended more than I liked, but I think it worked?
I basically knitted a tube, put a forethought thumb in (by using waste yarn to knit across the gap once, and removed that single row in order to add the thumb)
Shipwreck Spindle
Whorl - salvaged wood from USS New Hampshire, 1819.
Bocote shaft
27 gm
Pictures don't do this spindle justice! It is absolutely luminescent in person and sort of smells like the sea.
...operational controls for a spindle moulder in the carpentry workshop of Murphy's Machinery. Golden sunlight was spilling through gaps in the crumbling stonework and decaying rooftop rafters, illuminating the scene and casting atmospheric shadows everywhere.
Moving chromosomes (blue) towards the poles at anaphase requires Spastin, Fidgetin, and Katanin (red), all of which sever the spindle microtubules (green). (JCB 177(2) TOC2)
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Reference: Zhang et al. (2007) J. Cell Biol. 177:231-242.
Published on: April 23, 2007.
Doi: 10.1083/jcb.200612011.
Read the full article at:
...from Rhinebeck Sheep & Wool Festival
Spindle details starting from the left side of the photo:
Morado/Cochin Rosewood Midi - 1.32oz
Dogwood/Cochin Rosewood Featherweight - .68oz
Zapatero/Bocote Mini - .88oz
I believe this spindle was made by John Jenkins in Colorado. It is a support spindle. The small wooden spindle bowl with a perfect dip in the middle. The bowl is made and signed by Jim Echter of True Creations. In the background is Jacob wool from Meridian Jacobs.
Bloodwood Supported Spindle, Monkey Pod French Spindle, Monkey Pod French Spindle, Monkey Pod Nostepinne, Walnut Supported Spindle.
I've been a busy wood elf this week.