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Troubleshooting Your Yarn & Adjusting Your Wheel

Troubleshooting Your Yarn & Adjusting Your Wheel

Every spinner will create yarn that just doesn't work, and even experienced spinners have bad spinning sessions. Let's say the yarn won't hold together, or...

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Spinning Equipment

Spinning Equipment

You want to become a handspinner, and you've chosen a spindle or spinning wheel. What other tools—besides spinnable fiber—will you need to get started?  ...

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spinning fibers

A Quick Guide to Fibers and Fiber Preparations for Handspinning

Spinners have a lot of fiber options for their yarns. They can choose the type of fiber and fiber prep best suited for a particular project....

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General Spinning Wheel Troubleshooting

General Spinning Wheel Troubleshooting

The flyer won’t turn. The poly or cotton drive band is not over the flyer whorl—set the drive band in a groove of the whorl....

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How do I replace a wood part if Schacht doesn't make it anymore?

Look for a nearby woodworker or woodworking guild. Take the part(s) to them for a consultation—it's usually not hard to make replicas.

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