Opening the new wheel
January 4th, 2008 at 12:48 am (spinning)
I received a new package in the mail today:
A new spinning wheel – the Majacraft Rose.
I already have a Schacht Matchless. It’s been a bit cranky lately though. The whorls are rattling quite excessively; and I’ve got a squeaky treadle. There is a possible fix for the whorls, but it necessitates a trip back to the Schacht mother-land; and in the meantime I will be completely without a spinning wheel. So, crazy me I decide to go buy a whole ‘nother spinning wheel.
I used to own a Lendrum as my second wheel. But I ended up loaning it out more than I used it myself; and I decided I just didn’t like spinning on it enough to keep it. I bought it because it was more of a travel wheel than the Schacht, but I ended up wanting to spin on the Schacht anyway. So I sold it about a year after I got it.
The rose was a bit of a impulse purchase, I’ll admit. However, I am signed up for Madrona (a fabulous fiber conference where I’m taking 4 days of spinning classes) in February and I do not want to risk being without a wheel that I am familiar with for that. I am going to send back my flyer and whorls to Schacht for hopeful fixing; so I needed another wheel in case it took forever to get the parts back. I’d been doing some casual research, and I stepped it up a bit. Everything I had read pointed to Majacraft being a great wheel! I have used a gem briefly (their true travel wheel) and it treadled fine; and I seemed to be able to spin on it; so I jumped and ordered the Rose.
I took lots of pictures while doing the setup:
Here it is compared to the Schacht:
Tomorrow I’ll post my first impressions of using the Rose and how it compares to the Schacht.
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