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Hand Carders: Bent Wire Pins Set in Leather on Beech Paddles
Hand carders are a pair of paddles faced with card cloth: a flexible backing set with close rows of wire pins. Wool brushed between them lines up and comes off as a rolag for spinning. Bend wire into U-shaped staples, push them through pricked leather, bend every pin over at the same angle, and nail the cloth to two beech paddles.
The picture: our diagram, a card from the face and its pins in section.
Intermediate
Several days
Instructions
1
1
Paddles
Paddles
Saw two beech paddles about 20 × 10 cm with a handle each, and round the edges with the rasp.
Materials for this step:
Beech Lumber1 pieceTools needed:
Coping Saw
Wood Rasp2
2
Staples
Staples
Cut steel wire into short lengths and bend each into a U, its two legs the pins (step 5 gives the count).
Materials for this step:
Steel Wire50 mTools needed:
Wire Cutters
Flat-Nose Pliers3
3
Set the pins
Set the pins
Rule a grid on two pieces of leather and prick two holes for each staple with the awl. Push the staples through from the back, then bend all the pins over the same way at the same height, so they lean toward the handle.
Materials for this step:
Vegetable Tanned Leather1 pieceTools needed:
Ruler
AwlFlat-Nose Pliers
Utility Knife4
4
Mount the cloth
Mount the cloth
Stretch each piece over its paddle face and nail it round the edges. The two cards must lean the same way when held face to face in use.
Materials for this step:
Iron Nails24 piecesTools needed:
Cross Peen Hammer5
5
Pins for a card
Pins for a card
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