Shaft: 4 1/4 inches long, Bloodwood

Whorl: 2 1/2 inches wide, dymondwood in color scheme Hazelnut

Weight: 0.6 oz

What an amazing plant this is - the common old European spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus).

I'm a big fan of the foreign species - planipes, bungeanus, cornutus and especially alatus but frankly our native species is equal to any of them.

The only problem as far as I can see is that it doesn't look like anything much for the rest of the year. It's not obtrusive or ugly though so easy to hide among the other plants until it steps forward and does it's thing in September.

The dismantled parts of the direct-drive spindle motor. Again I replaced the ball races with new ones.

post-TdF spinning

Euonymus europaeus

Maple and red Padouk, with a perpendicular bone knob. Lightweight. Maker: Horst Hummel, Germany

My rather slap-dash spindles. The larger one turns out to be a bit too heavy to be practical.

The cop on the smaller spindle is a ping pong ball sized ball of worsted that I unplied and then joined the plies end to end while adding more twist to make one long single. I'll be Andean plying that once the twist has rested a bit.

ch 82 1886

Manufactured from (probable Romano-British) oxidised ware

Spindle Ermine Caterpillars on the trunk of a tree on Jesus Green

"Spindle" - a sculpture by Dustin Shuler, 1989, in Berwyn Illinois (since destroyed).

www.loc.gov/item/2017708976/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_(sculpture)

I'm a cyclist. I find this amusing.

Beautiful Spindle made by Kevin Rhodes :)

high-lowwhorldropspindle.co.uk/

The whorl is Coccabola and the shaft is maranti,weighs about 37g

Totally bewitched me...... :D

spindle

Drop spindle workshop for beginners at knit nottingham

Splined drawbar, with spindle encoder

Auto Art in Chicago area. Called "Spindle" it's in the Cermak Plaza in the Berwyn suburb. Check out the skinned Pinto as well while you are there.

resting on Crown Mountain Farms pencil roving in "As Above, So Below"

A spider on the support poles of the dock.

Little Beach, Nelson Bay NSW.

Spindle fruit is particularly good this year.

Posted to Etsy shop 11/7/10

www.etsy.com/shop/PumpkinHillFarm

Photo by Dom Greves.

Large Turkish weighing 36g, in African Padauk with African Blackwood shaft (length 7 3/4".)

Red cedar whorl, spindle weight 8 grams, with merino/cashmere being spun

This is a toy wheel for the whorl..put together with a hardwood dowel... handpainted by me...spins like a dream

by Kevin Rhodes from the UK. delicious, long spin! spalted beech-elm-ash (1.25 oz) and elm-elm-sapele (1.4 oz.). Resting atop Romney locks that are washed, awaiting combing.

Also the High/Low gears can be seen

Tamworth, ON

Huso de 30-35 gr, customizado.

Great Wheel mother of all and daughters.