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Wheel Maker's Craft

Guide to Making Spinning Wheel Flyers and Wheels

Guide to Restoring an Antique Spinning wheel

Guide to Making Saxony Style Spinning Wheels

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Guide to Making Saxony Style Spinning Wheels

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Guide to Making Spinning Wheel Flyers and Wheels

Carson R. Cooper

ISBN 978-0-9818772-0-4

128 pages

$23.95 (available late 2008)

"There is a unique satisfaction in using a fully functional spinning wheel, made by one's own hands. Flyers and wheels can be the most challenging components...and often make, or break, the final product. Guide to Making Spinning wheel Flyers and Wheels provides step by step instructions for successfully making these critical parts, whether a replacement flyer or wheel is needed for a treasured antique, or building a complete new spinning wheel."

A section on basic spinning wheel mechanics is included to aide the reader in making the most of either type of project.

 

 

 

Guide to Restoring an Antique Spinning Wheel

Carson R. Cooper

ISBN 978-0-9818-1-1

96 pages

$21.95 (available late 2008)

Guide to Restoring an Antique Spinning Wheel reveals the "mysteries of the old wheel makers" providing tips, tricks and old time recipes for reviving the spinning tools of yesterday.

Complete with a glimpse into the early days of the wheel-makers and craft of handspinning.

 

 

Guide to Making Saxony Style Spinning Wheels

Carson R. Cooper

ISBN 978-0-9818772-2-8

128 pages

$23.95 (available spring 2009)

For anyone who has ever tried to make a spinning wheel from one of those craft plans. A wheel builder since 1997, Carson Cooper shows how to make a 30 inch Saxony spinning wheel and Double wheel Accelerator with common tools. Detailed drawings and instructions are given for each.