Even more spindles!

The spindles that I sent off to my Rav friend arrived, and she really likes them. :-)  I sent her this pine Tibetan and a lignum vitae phang:

I also made a Nepalese-type spindle, a type of phang, from another piece of lignum vitae that is much browner - the other lignum vitae spindles are quite green.  It's a very interesting wood, and this piece has a beautiful grain you can't see in a photo:

And a bead spindle for someone, which turned out nice:

Boy she twirls fast!

I also designed a new supported spindle with a lot of help from my Rav friend, based on a Balkan two-whorl drop spindle:

Though we had hoped it would work as a sort-of all-in-spindle - being able to ply two singles still on the spindle onto the bottom section - it didn't work out in that respect.  However, you can comfortably spin two or three singles onto this spindle and keep them well-separated.  I find it quite comfortable to spin on, even though it's much taller than my usual spindles!  And it seems I can get more spun in the same amount of time on this spindle.  Or I'm getting better at supported-spindle-spinning.

I need to not do a pyramid cop on it though, as it creates problems when you are winding off both sections onto a plying ball. :-)  It's definitely one of my favorite spindles. :-D

And today I made a phang out of bloodwood - isn't the wood pretty?

It looks much better in person - I don't seem to be able to take photos at night (in that they are worse than my lousy daylight photos). :-/

As you can see, I've been spending more time making spindles than using them, but with it getting colder here I probably won't be in the woodshop quite so often.


In doggy news, the Boss Dog had surgery on Monday to remove a growth on her foot which ended up costing her a toe.  But she seems to be recovering pretty well:

The only problem being she's supposed to stay off her foot since the bandage is already off.  And she's feeling rather frisky, so she's pulling on the stitches. :-(  So I'm sitting on the bedroom floor with her making sure she stays mostly off of it - she's less than pleased with me (especially since she is also wearing the Cone of Shame)!