Ashford Sliding Hook Flyer Bobbins - Single Drive
Ashford Sliding Hook Flyer Bobbins - Single Drive
SKU: SHFB
We'll wind these hanks into center-pull cakes before they ship. Wound yarn can't be returned.
- Natural: Available to ship
- Lacquered: Available to ship
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Details
The single drive Ashford Sliding Hook Flyer Bobbin is the one the Kiwi 2, Kiwi 3, Joy 2 and Traveller 3 come with, and it fits the single drive Sliding Hook Flyer, the Kiwi Sliding Hook Flyer and the Joy Sliding Hook Flyer Kit that updates a Joy 1. Their hooks squeeze and slide along the arms.
Size and capacity
| Length | 4 1/2 in |
| End diameter | 3 1/2 in, both ends |
| Capacity | 130g/4.6oz, about one braid |
| Drive | Single drive (scotch tension) |
| Finish | Natural or lacquered |
| Made of | Beech hardwood and veneered MDF |
Versions
- SHFB, single drive, natural
- SHFBL, single drive, lacquered
This is the single drive bobbin, with a groove at one end for the brake band. If the bobbin that came with your flyer has a small drive whorl on one end, it's double drive and takes the double drive Sliding Hook Flyer Bobbin, even if you spin it with a brake band.
Finishing
Both spin the same. Lacquered arrives sealed, and natural is bare wood for you to wax or seal, which protects it from lanolin and marks over the years. On a natural bobbin, 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?
Measure across the ends of a bobbin that came with your flyer.
- 3 in with a smaller 2 1/2 in end is standard
- 3 1/2 in on both ends is sliding hook
- 4 1/4 in is jumbo
The Joy Freedom Flyer and the Sliding Hook Jumbo Flyer have sliding hooks too, but they take the Jumbo Bobbin. 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 Sliding Hook Flyer Bobbins - Single Drive
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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. A wheel that ships with this bobbin comes with three.
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.