Thanks Frank for urging me to share my creation with others that I have already shared with you. In my "beginning to learn weaving" [and using low cost knitting yarn] I wondered what 2 different color yarns would look like together in a weave. I had just received my single shuttle with 10 bobbins order - so I had bobbins. Being a retired electrician I know for years we would heat and bend pvc pipe and I had some scrap materials. The bobbins go on a lightly sanded piece of 1/4 dowel rod so to fabricate and attach two pieces of scrap wood to hold the dowel and bobbins was the design challenge. In total with the scrap material, this cost about 20 minutes worth of power for the heat gun and two wood screws. It could use improvement modifications on side holes for the yarn outlets but it does work, slides well, did not nosedive or stick in the warp.

Comments

Mon, 10/31/2011 - 14:10

TheLoominary (not verified)

Hi r1mein54, thanks for posting this neet PVC shuttle. This just goes to show you don't need a Rolls Royce to go to the market, the VW will get you there just as well! Thanks for showing us all what can be accomplished with some very creative thought,and recycled odds and ends. Just look at the finished product! Well Done! Frank.

Sun, 12/25/2011 - 01:44

Ameda

Hi, r1mein54! Did you flatten the bottom of your shuttle?  It's been several more weeks since you last posted.  Any design add-on / changes?  Have you tried using quills instead of the bobbins?

Best, Ameda

Tue, 12/27/2011 - 00:31

r1mein54 (not verified)

Yes Ameda I did flatten the bottom so it would not roll over while passing it through the shed. I have not used it since I made it for the "practice weave project" I was working at that time. I think I will stay with bobbins for a while.
Tue, 12/27/2011 - 01:36

Ameda

We had a 20 foot tall western red cedar for our Christmas tree at my church.  Our maintainance manager was sawing it up today to take it down.  I'm going to get a nice big section of the trunk and a couple of the lower limbs and store them to dry.  

Would western red cedar work for shuttles? Or would it be too splintery?

Fri, 12/30/2011 - 09:43

Spinningdoula

I'm very impressed.  Thank you for showing the shuttle!

Fri, 12/30/2011 - 11:38

ackwarp

Western Red Cedar is a very light wood when properly dried and somewhat soft, it dents and scratches easily. I use it for shed sticks on my backstrap loom. As for splinters, if you cut your shuttle out of straight grain wood, sand it untill it feels smooth to the touch, and finish it with a clear varnish/polyurethane, it should be fine.

Fri, 12/30/2011 - 11:40

ackwarp

Western Red Cedar is a very light wood when properly dried and somewhat soft, it dents and scratches easily. I use it for shed sticks on my backstrap loom. As for splinters, if you cut your shuttle out of straight grain wood, sand it untill it feels smooth to the touch, and finish it with a clear varnish/polyurethane, it should be fine.

Sat, 12/31/2011 - 03:33

Ameda

Cool!  I got a section of the trunk in my car trunk.  Other projects will get done first...

 

Mon, 11/25/2013 - 09:02

garyhawk

so amazing idea！i want to make it！！