Help required with Wool picker dimensions.

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KIMBOKO

Nomad
Nov 26, 2003
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Suffolk
Are there any wool spinners out there who use a box type Wool picker who could help me. I am constructing one at the moment and would appreciate information about the nail distribution from someone who has got one. I think I need to know the number of rows of nails, direction and angle also the distance between the nails and between rows. For both the top and bottom pieces. I assume the nails in the top piece pass between the bottom nails so they don't lock together but I can't see from pictures by how much they overlap. I have looked at pictures online and probably any guess I make won't be too far out. But I would have more confidence about it if I knew the dimensions weren't too far out.Is there any advantage in having the nail sets removable to adjust how agressively it works?
 
There you go, we learn something every day :D
I've never seen one before, and I've been spinning for a heck of a long time.
We pick over a fleece before we comb or card, remove the dags, etc.,
I think it looks more like our combing process; sort of.

Interesting :) and interested to hear how you get on with it too :cool:

cheers,
Mary
 
I bought a spinning wheel from a charity shop (ashford trad) last year and spun some flax but didn't have any other use for it. But recently my wife saw someone had knitted a scarf using a hemp and wool mix which she liked. So she bought some wool and hemp fibres and I offered to mix and spin some for her. I have finished that and thought it would be good to do some more wool spinning and so I have bought a fleece. As I like to make things and make things easier for myself a wool picker seemed like an easier/quicker way of preparation that combing. I am really totally new to spinning so I have lots to learn about everything.
I made the box for a wool picker yesterday before work and the I am going to get some nails today. But I won't be able to get on with it until monday due to work.
 

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