Lacemaking Tools – Random Wood Pin Vice

August 22, 2008

I’ve been making some more lacemaking tools.  I had a piece of Beenatree that looked to have a nice close grain and wasn’t too heavy so I decided to try a new style of Pin Vice.  These ones have a longer handle, more like the barrel of a chubby pen.  These will be ideal for [...]

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New Tools

August 20, 2008

One of the most important issues in my business of creating lacemaking bobbins is the challenge of maintaining a keen edge on my turning tools.  To that end I have indulged in some retail therapy and invested in the Jig Adaptor Table to fit my Robert Sorby Pro Edge sharpening system. I have yet to [...]

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Lacemaking Bobbins and Random Wood

August 18, 2008

The woods used for lacemaking bobbins are many and varied, and each lends its own character to the finished article.  All Turners have our favourites and tend to pick that type of  wood first when we go in the workshop to get ’your eye in’.  The pile of wood blanks can be a bit like [...]

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Lacemaking Bobbins – Made in a Shed or a Workshop?

August 13, 2008

“It’s not a Shed, it’s a Workshop”,   so says flaminglacer, my other half.  True, when she bought it for me as a place to turn my lacemaking bobbins, we paid extra for a stronger floor, bigger doorway and higher roof than the standard shed specification.  Somehow though, shed still rolls off the tongue more easily [...]

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Lacemaking Bobbins

August 11, 2008

Lacemaking Bobbins are the pride and joy of any Lacemaker. Among the greatest pleasures in making lace are the beautiful tools we get to use. Each one is carefully hand crafted by a skilled maker and is perfectly designed for it’s purpose, but most of all we love our bobbins. We each set up our [...]

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