The Saxony Has Landed

It started with a big box.




After unpacking it looked like this.












By the time I was done it looked like this.








Even unfinished it spins wonderfully—like a walnut dream. Best of all it fits in the spinning space. Now I'll take it apart and sand, oil, steel wool, oil, steel wool, oil, steel wool then reassemble for good. At some point in the next month or so I'll actually start to spin on it. I can't wait.

Thanks Gord. Thanks Toni.

Finishing

Not of knitted samples, but of walnut. Tung oil. Two coats, scrubbed in between with steel wool to a silky smooth surface. The object of my finishing experiments arrives tomorrow...