Quoting Holly Shaltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jekka writes: > > <<I am the proud new owner of a Shaker great wheel (c.1809-1828)>> > > Congratulations! And what a wonderful thing that you know when the > wheel was made and who (at least in general) made it. How did you > happen to buy this wheel? I bought it from Sue Burns at New Hampshire Sheep and Wool. It has the initials FW on it, which the big book of spinning wheels says is Francis Winkley, at Canterbury Shaker Village in NH, and he ran the shop 1807-1828. The fact that it is Shaker is a big part of why my SO fell in love with it (a great thing in an SO, I must say) > > <<I have been happily spinning on (though not without the drive > band > popping off a number of times, although I'm getting better at keeping > it > on).>> > > Sometimes the bands pop off because the wheel has become warped > over > time, sometimes because the wheel isn't aligned just right with the > whorl of the spindle. Keep fiddling with it, gently, until you > figure > out what the problem is. I don't know if a warp in the wheel itself > can > be fixed, but alignment problems sometimes work out pretty easily. > It seems to be alignment, I'm getting to where it almost never pops off, as long as I keep an eye on it. I think my turning the wheel often pushes it a bit out of alignment over time. It seems unwarped and basically perfect. > <<It's a wonderful wheel, although rather large in our apartment>> > > I bought a wool wheel when we had a tiny 2-bedroom apartment. It > dominated the living room for a time, then we moved to a bigger > place. It's taken over the dining room. We'll see what happens once we get our dining room table. > Getting it home was interesting--we had a small 4-door sedan at the > time. We took the wheel off the axle and hung it from inside the > roof > of the car, while the table, legs, and remaining pieces fit into > the > trunk :) > Luckily, the Burnses were super nice and delivered it for us in their van. It would have been a squeeze
Thanks so much for your advice and for everyone's. Luckily, the semester has just ended, so I have extra time to play. Jekka To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
