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Materials needed:
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Posterboard (or cereal box) |
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Bamboo Skewer |
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Paperclip |
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Duct Tape |
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Needle Nose Pliers (or strong fingers) |
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Scissors |
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Glue (such as Elmer’s) |
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Waxed Paper |
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Awl (or Hammer and small Nail) |
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Print Out of Page 2 (or a compass) |
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The
Lisard Utlralight is a very inexpensive, almost disposable, drop spindle
you can make yourself. Being very both light (the standard model is 8
grams) and with most of the weight on the rim of the over-size whorl, you
will be able to spin very fine yarns more easily. Bamboo skewers are not
perfectly straight, and cardboard is not perfectly rigid, but the whorl
size and light weight more than make up for this. Because you can
inexpensively make it yourself, you can customize the length and weight to
suit, and experiment with different configurations of whorl size, weight
and placement as well as shaft length.
This design is NOT
COPYRIGHTED. You may copy, modify
and distribute it as you see fit.
This design is also Free. However if you are overcome with gratitude
and feel that you must compensate me somehow, I would welcome chocolate.
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