more loom maintenance

I'm just starting to get a little tired of sanding rust.

Those are two of the eight lamms, all off my loom right now. I've got four done with the rust sanding for now, four to go. It's definitely annoying, but it feels good to give Lily a little tlc at the same time.

I also spent this morning helping a friend put a giant countermarch loom together. We measured the weaving width to be 80 inches, which is pretty damn exciting. The whole double lamm system had me confused for a bit because I'm so used to jack looms, but I got the tie up figured out soon enough. Loom loom looms, all day long. Not a bad day, if I say so myself.

Some of my hand woven scarves are now for sale at LOCAL in Lenox, Mass.

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They sell all handcrafted goods, made locally here in the Berkshires. Lots of other great stuff too, check it out!

One of the downsides of buying a used loom: sometimes things break. Back in December one of the rivets on the lamms severed right through.

See that one piece sticking out? Yeah, that's not supposed to go there.

I took it all apart down there and got that sad lamm off. With some great advice from a friend, I bought myself a rivet gun and got it all back together again. I think it took me a few weeks to get it all figured out and working again. Good as new!

Yet last night, another rivet did the same thing. So I took the bottom apart, got the lamm off, drilled out the old rivet, popped a new one in, and put it all back together again. This time though, I had it fixed and weaving again within an hour and a half. I really hope this doesn't keep happening, but really, an hour and a half. NOT F'IN BAD, if I say so myself.


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UPDATE: About 2 or 3 yards of weaving past that last post, another rivet broke off. :( I've been emailing Macomber for help now. Hopefully I can get to the bottom of this soon.