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    My most recent project, the reason the new clock hasn't got very far, is a table-top weaving loom for my wife. She already has a 70cm wide folding model made by Louet but wanted the 40cm version as well due an accute attack of OLAD (Obsessive Loom Aquisition Dissorder), a common afliction among dedicated weavers. Rather than force her to save up the considerable asking price I decided to build one for her as a Christmas present. It wasn't quite finished in time but is now working nicely.

    The design is a blatant rip-off of the original with changes to cope with it being a one-off DIY project without the fancy moulded parts and I changed the sizes of timber used to match the range of DAR Tasmanian Oak available from Bunnings Warehouse. One of the reasons for it not being finished in time was that production could not start until after a visit to Perth in November from which I returned with the car stuffed full of a 12 inch bandsaw and and a surprising amount of timber which left no room for passengers. The wife and her mother flew there and back anyway so I was safe!

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    An optimist says the glass is half full, a pessimist says the glass is half empty, an engineer says you're using the wrong sized glass.

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by Kitwn View Post
    accute attack of OLAD (Obsessive Loom Aquisition Dissorder), a common afliction among dedicated weavers.
    Oh god that sounds worryingly familiar. Despite wifey still being under 30, the number of weaving/beading/lace making related contraptions in the house seriously terrifies me.

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by AndyUK View Post
    Oh god that sounds worryingly familiar. Despite wifey still being under 30, the number of weaving/beading/lace making related contraptions in the house seriously terrifies me.
    Sounds familiar! Christie does weaving, lace making (I used to make bobbins for her to sell on her website), knitting (we live in the tropics!!), crochet, cross-stitch, quilting and occasionally plays the harp as well. Oh, and we're messing about with resin based jewellery as well. We're looking to retire to Tasmania in a couple of years but will need a large 4-bedroom house with a double garage just for the two of us to have enough room for our hobbies!

    Could be worse I suppose. At least we've never had any of those nasty, smelly, expensive child things.
    An optimist says the glass is half full, a pessimist says the glass is half empty, an engineer says you're using the wrong sized glass.

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by Kitwn View Post
    I used to make bobbins for her to sell on her website
    Huh I was asked about exactly this the other day. Another hobby she has is glass fusing and bead making; apparently spangled lace bobbins fetch a high price these days, so if I could produce the bobbin she'd do the rest.

    Obviously my cutting experience is very limited with my original conversion not really even coping with soft woods (it was an old scanning water phantom, so very weak). I guess it could be done by just flipping the work, but I did wonder if it was a 4th axis job. Would love to hear more about your method? Did you CNC them or just manually turn them?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kitwn View Post
    Could be worse I suppose. At least we've never had any of those nasty, smelly, expensive child things.
    Hah.

  5. #5
    Andy,
    I turned the lace bobbins by hand. That was long before I got involved in CNC stuff. In fact in 2004 we spent our last ever weekend living in the UK attending a course on bobbin turning and one of the first household appliances we bought in the new country was a lathe! In our early years in Australia C used to have an online shop selling bobbins nd other lace-making supplies, some that I made here but most were imported from the UK made by Stuart Johnson (who ran the course we attended along with David Springett) or Chris Parsons.

    Hand turning wood down to a diameter of 3mm takes a steady hand but once you get the knack it's easy enough with the right timber. Mass production requires a well thought out process and the right tools but nothing expensive or complicated. If you really want to look into making a 4th axis and producing bobbins I'd be happy to give you the benefit of my hand-turning experience. A 4th axis for such light work would be pretty simple. The main design requirement would be a fast turn-round time for swapping out pieces.
    An optimist says the glass is half full, a pessimist says the glass is half empty, an engineer says you're using the wrong sized glass.

  6. #6
    Go on Kit, Go the full Jacquard ! She's worth it !

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