How the spinning wheel works

Kudos! Finally someone has made a video of the spinning wheel that makes since! I have had a burger of a time trying to get my big fat head around that flyer! Do you have any video on the flyer assembly construction and the Mother of all assembly (Up close and in great detail) Please?
Blessings to you and yours for this New Year
Tony
Tampa Bay Florida

Sue,
My grandmother has a big wheel and I thought it would be cool to sell a video on how they worked. But, apparently, its all been done for free elsewhere. Also, I wanted to know in case I had to a make a large Irish sweater by hand for date night.

Sue,

I am new to this- my uncle gave me some wool and I have a handle on cleanig it (yuck), but am not sure about carding or combing. I do have some carders from my mother-in-law from her attemps, but they are different sizes and am having difficulty. Could you recommend a brand/type of carders and combs? I don't want to spend to much if possible. The drop spindle works well for me,its just the carding/combing that is giving me fits. Thanks for any help

Hi Amy,
I use carders which are curved backed, the teeth should be medium weight, ie not cotton carders and I prefer ones which do not have the teeth obviously paired, they should have some flexibility into the backing cloth. if this makes sense. Ashfords are ok, I get mine from P&M Woolcraft in the UK, I know they do mail order.For combs I like the Louet Mini combs with double rows of teeth, though they are expensive and not suited to heavier/longer wools such as Lincoln, Wensleydale etc.

turn it around

sorry don't understand, what do you mean?

Thanks for explaining the flier/flyer. This is one very educational video. :-)

Thnk you all for your feedback, I have been running spinning workshops here in Scotland at our B&B for the past 2 weeks and it is nice to see people go away with a skein of wool which is of good quality from the start, it is so much easier to see how things work in person than to read a book which is often lacking important though seemingly minor things like adjusting bobbin tension.
If anyone would like to organise a tour for me to come to USA ot Canada, would be most interested.
Regards
Sue

Thank you, this is very informational, and now I understand. Excellent video.
Vicki

Hi Martha,
I am so glad you are finding the videos useful, I am hoping to do another next week so will include something about overspun yarn. In the meantime, make sure that you are actually letting the yarn go onto the bobbin, if you keep holding onto the yarn once the twist has run in it will just keep building up.
Regards

Sue