365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
The Cribbage Jig
Day 117: Sometimes, I'm absolutely brilliant. Max still requires several things before he's fully operational. Certainly, I needed to order canvas for an apron for the warp roller and suitable cord for his tie-up, but while I'm waiting for those to arrive, I decided to tie more string heddles because there were only 100 on each shaft. You really need a jig of some sort to tie heddles uniformly, and I was running through all sorts of options for building one, but I didn't want to have to break out the bolt cutters to bite the heads off nails. Then it hit me: I had a fully adjustable jig in my closet...a cribbage board! I took one of the existing heddles, staked it out between pegs to set the proper distance for the length and placement of the eye, and I was in business. I tied 25 last night as a test and mounted them on one of Max's shafts. Perfecto! It's working so well that I may eventually replace all of the old heddles as well.
Labels:
cribbage board,
jig,
string heddles,
weaving
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