Anybody familiar with this tool?

Cannibalize a fishing reel?

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If you had one of those really old egg beaters, the kind with a crank handle, you could cut all the flanges off (and wind 2 bobbins at once :-) Or use an electric screwdriver. Roberta in D

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Electric screwdriver or Dremel tool, should do the trick.

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I have one of those tools so here's something to consider. There's a handy little winder dealy-bob you can usually get where you buy hand embroidery supplies. It's the DMC bobbin winder,

did some field modifications on a few of these for different winding tasks; thread to fly tying bobbins, teeny ribbons and braid onto SM bobbins for fancy PITA decorative sewing, etc. These things are made to hold the flat bobbin thing you wind embroidery floss on to store in plastic boxes. I took a wine bottle cork, dug out a hole in the center-end and super glued it to the winding part, use the dry end *snort* and make sure your glue will bond wood to plastic. Then I used a razor blade and shaved the cork into sort of a cone-ish shape so I could slide my tubes and bobbins to be wound down on it to fit snuggly. Then I slide this winder thing into the edge of a plastic box (it's made to do that) and place a brick on the box to hold it firmly on the table. {Yes, I have a brick in my sewing room, have for years, I got a new brick and wrapped it in plastic wrap so I have something heavy when I need it, like smacking thick, multi layered seams into submission or holding the door open on a breezy day among other tasks.} You can then firmly seat that awl tube to be wound on the cork cone, get the thread started, then you hold the 'mother thread' in one hand and turn the little crank on the winder with the other and use 'mother thread' hand to direct a smooth even distribution onto your awl thread tube. These little winder thingies only cost about a $2, the cork was "recycled" ;) TSWLTH, Ben Franklin and Wally's usually carry the winders. Val

There is a gadget my parents had for spinning and weaving (loading bobbins for a handloom, I think). It was a hand-cranked spindle on a cast-iron frame that you could clamp to a table. Solid and with much more controllable speed than a power drill.

On the other hand, surely NightMist's DH has a computer-controlled screw-cutting lathe?...

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Nah.

But since I cast a speculative gaze upon his coil winding jig he has been giving the question some serious thought.

The article you are describing sounds like an old fashioned apparatus for winding lace bobbins and would be perfect.

NightMist

I have used the dremal before, but when I am winding prewaxed thread off a one pound tube or better, or winding sinew, it can be a pain. Winding those materials at that speed would require more hands than I usually have available, even mounting the dremal in a staionary holder. Screwdriver has the same issue plus. Works fine for just plain heavy thread though.

NightMist

There is the animal!

Usually when I am shopping embroidery supplies I go no further than floss and hoops. I wonder what other nifty things I am missing?

NightMist

This looks great. Would the "Side Winder" for bobbins work?