Ashford High Speed Bobbins
Ashford High Speed Bobbins
SKU: HSDDB
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Details
The Ashford High Speed Bobbin is a double drive bobbin with a smaller drive whorl, for faster speeds and fine, high-twist yarn. It goes on the Double Drive Flyer or the double drive Sliding Hook Flyer of a Traditional, Traveller or Elizabeth, with the High Speed Double Drive Whorl fitted to the flyer.
Size and capacity
| Length | 4 1/2 in |
| End diameter | 2 3/4 in and 2 1/2 in |
| Drive whorl | 1 1/4 in |
| Capacity | 100g/3.5oz, a little under one braid |
| Drive | Double drive |
| Finish | Natural |
| Made of | Beech hardwood and veneered MDF |
Versions
- HSDDB, double drive, natural
Double drive is for one long band looped twice, around the flyer and the bobbin.
Finishing
It comes as bare wood and spins as it is. Wax or a sealer protects it from lanolin and marks over the years. Sand the core lightly, leave the ends unsanded, and keep any lacquer very thin inside the grooves, or leave it off there, so the band grips.
Not sure which bobbin you have?
With its own whorl, the Double Drive Flyer takes the double drive Standard Bobbin, and the double drive Sliding Hook Flyer takes the double drive Sliding Hook Flyer Bobbin. The double drive Standard Bobbin has the same ends as this one, so measure the drive whorl, the small pulley on top. It's 1 1/4 in on this bobbin and 1 1/2 in on the Standard. If you need a different bobbin, compare them all in our Ashford bobbin collection.
Send us a photo of your flyer and we'll tell you which bobbin it takes.
Ashford High Speed Bobbins
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Frequently Asked Questions
One more than the number of plies, because the empty bobbin you wind onto counts, so a two-ply takes three and a three-ply takes four.
Put a drop of spinning wheel oil on the flyer shaft before you slide the bobbin on, and a drop on the bobbin bearings now and then.