It's finished. And...not entirely functional. "Surprise, surprise," some of you may be thinking, but the key word is "entirely." As in, it's -mostly- functional. The problem is, as I feared a few months ago after seeing a Babe's Fiber Land wheel in the flesh - uh - pvc, with the size of the PVC piping. I used 3/4" PVC. Most Babe wheels, I now know ( Read more... )

That's right. It's here. I mean, I'm finally building it, and it's nearly done! I need to do some last minute fiddling and hole drilling and screwing in various hardware bits. But, other than that, I've got the basic components put together.

PHOTOS!


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I'm re-inventing the wheel. The spinning wheel. Actually, I'm not really re-inventing it as much as I am reverse engineering and simplifying it a bit for my needs. Let me start from the beginning:

In the beginning (9 long months ago) I learned to spin on The Drop Spindle (bottom whorl).  I was immediately obsessed with spinning (interesting side ( Read more... )