{"id":2223,"date":"2009-12-01T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-12-01T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T02:01:16","slug":"bobbins-bobbins-bobbins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Bobbins, bobbins, bobbins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I have been on bobbin duty today turning lace and jumbo bobbins. Since working at Majacraft I have had to learn wood turning which has been a fun and valuable skill. I had done a bit of metal turning both at school and at an engineers in my 20&#8217;s (Talon Engineering in the UK &#8211; the factory was through the fence from Westland Helicopters so was a fun place to work for someone who liked aircraft and helicopters).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the story&#8230; I think our fibreglass and wood bobbins are really neat and as I was working I was thinking about their history. Rob (my brother) and I had the opportunity to go to the Bendigo Show in Australia a couple of years back now which was our first international trip for Majacraft. We met Wendy Dennis (Wendy Dennis-Handspinning Wool)and Philip and Jenny Dunn (from Virginia Farm Woolworks)which was a great experience. We talked with the Dunn&#8217;s about our bobbins while there which gave us some new ideas to improve them.While on the train from Bendigo down to Adelaide, Rob and I worked out the design and how to build the new fibreglass bobbins on scraps of paper.<\/p>\n<p>So if you have some of our wooden bobbins, you now know that the idea for them was born in a train on a sunny day in Australia!<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I have been on bobbin duty today turning lace and jumbo bobbins. Since working at Majacraft I have had to learn wood turning which has been a fun and valuable skill. I had done a bit of metal turning both at school and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}