About 18 months ago Peg and I were at the Adirondack Fiber Festival, and Peg all but insisted (please don’t throw me into the briar patch) that I purchase an Ashford eSpinner 3. I succumbed to her wishes and carried the new wheel to the car. I wrote about my plans in December 2018.

I made a few uninspired attempts at a bobbin design, but the project just found itself on the back burner. Until… I found a plea on Facebook for bobbins for an Ashford jumbo – double-drive.

After designing and printing a bobbin for my new friend[1], I set to improving the design for my bobbin, which was too fragile. After a few shots at it, I have a bobbin. and it even works!

Three views of my new bobbin. The fiber is from a Cotswold named Ruby 🙂

These are printed in Polylactic Acid, or PLA. I have some ABS to play with. It’s the stuff of which football helmets are made. Really tough stuff.

[1] I haven’t actually met Grace, but I designed and printed a bobbin for her (with several failed prints), and mailed it to her gratis, so she must be a friend, right?

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