I want someone to take my spinning wheel, and host it.

I have a spinning wheel I designed and built. It uses construction lumber and 3d printings. Someone with level 1 wood working can craft it, which is why I designed and built it. It would cost about $120.00 to craft one with fresh lumber and plastic. If doing production it would take about $60.00 in materials.

I want to offer it to the community, so people can build themself a spinning wheel.

It was derived from the craftsman spinning wheel blueprints available free on the internet. It has the drive wheel diamenter, and whorl from it. Most of it is different however. It does retain part of the frame.
A 15.35" drive wheel, 8cm whorl. I did make a 5cm, 6cm, 7cm, 8cm, 9cm, 10cm, 12cm whorl for it.
It runs in scotch tension, but if one can figure out how to fix the drive band problem, it can run double drive.

Double drive is doable on it, I spun a skein of yarn with it, but with problems.

It can also be setup with double flyer, and optional distaff on it. Which would be needed for double flyer. I tested the double flyer out, but my distaff didn’t work very well for me, and my predrafted wool had many slumps. It’s also hard to treadle with two flyers. Both flyers where setup in scotch tension.

It runs best with petroluem jelly. Does not work well with mineral oil.

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That looks very interesting. Do you have a local spinning guild? You could contact the secretary and ask whether you could attend a meeting to show your wheel, or put a notice in the guild newsletter to find people interested in trying it out.

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There is nothing like that near me. No yarn shops or anything. It’s easy to build.
What I built was the step by step instructions for crafting it, in a pdf document. Plus all the 3d stl models for printing.
I original was going to manufacture them and sell the spinning wheels. I built a sales model and put him in flea market. Lots of people looked at it, but noone would buy it. I was asking for $100.00.
I took and started using it rather than my prototype, because it was built better.

The prototype and sales model have been great for learning to spin on, but I am now upgrading to an antique norwegan spinning wheel I purchased from eBay. It’s in transit from Sweden right now.

The spinning wheel is version 1.3 now. I am putting it in public domain. Plus, I fixed the double drive system with a longer exocenter. So it can be run in scotch tension or double drive. It also boasts that it can be double flyer in scotch tension. Maybe double drive but I have not tested it.

The 19th century wheel was nice, but I consider my homemade wheel better. More capacity, and no flyer problems. The antique can only be used for fine yarns.

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I think my homemade spinning wheel is very good one. My reasons:
The bobbin capacity which I thought was small, is actually very big. Not as big as the Jumbo flyers on ashford and kromski, but bigger than standard flyer of ashford and kromski. I found out that ashford flyer cannot hold 100g of merino, only about 15-20 grams. My homemade wheel bobbin can hold 50grams. Bobbin capacity should not be expressed with weight, but yards. #4 yarn my bobbin can hold 60 yards. The ashford can barley handle #4 yarn, 22 yards.

It can be setup in double drive or scotch tension. Sorry no irish, but with one small adjustment it can be irish I think.

With the longer exocenter the treadle is nicer. I have not tested the double flyer setup with the longer exocenter yet. Before it gave me resistance, but the longer exocenter should make it little bit better.

Which is the other thing about my wheel, is this wheel can have two flyers mounted. Problem is, they must be setup in scotch tension each. Double drive with two flyers is too harrrd.

I will see if I can offer an upload here on the forum after I check the files and fix everything.

https://file.io/JWQQpZZ4Naqx

The spinning wheel. It contains building instructions step by step. Plus the needed 3d printer STL files.

Be careful with the cotter pins, they can be sharp.
PUBLIC DOMAIN USA