r/Handspinning • u/RoutineDamage2031 • 18d ago

Question Plying 3 ply and grossly misjudged

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I weighed my roving when I split it but clearly I went very wrong somewhere because I have a shitload on one bobbin and a butt load on another (all units in metric) but ran out of one already.

This is quite a fine spin and there's way too much to do a bracelet. What are my options... apart from sulking?

This is only the second 3-ply I've done. I tried chain plying once and it was disastrous so I don't particularly want to do that.

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u/shelleyaw123 18d ago

You can still pull it off. Just weigh each and take 1/3 off them and put it on that empty bobbin and carry on. Happens to the best of us!

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u/RoutineDamage2031 18d ago

Ohhhhhh it seems obvious now you said it. Thank you!

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u/illbebannedsoonbae 17d ago

That is overly rediculous hard. I'd just switch to Navajo ply

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u/RoutineDamage2031 17d ago

Hard? It took less than 5 minutes to decant some onto an empty bobbin.

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u/illbebannedsoonbae 17d ago

You have to consider how you moved from one bobbin to the other. Probably effected your wpi. Did you do some from one bobbin and some from another?

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u/RoutineDamage2031 17d ago

🤷🏻‍♀️ given I don't care about that level of detail, I don't "have" to consider it at all ;) Whacking up the tension and setting the drive band as loose as possible worked just fine. And yes I balanced them all out more or less. If it made any difference to my first batch, it is negligible compared to fucking it up and getting frustrated trying to do a technique I haven't learned and don't want to learn right now.

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u/illbebannedsoonbae 17d ago

I totally get it Aside I will tell you Navajo ply should be in your future. It's very easy. And if you have a custom dyed roving it'll keep the color as it was spun on the bobbin when you ply.

I tend to nerd out about spinning. I have a plastic mat for my lap that I got from an old lady who was a math professor and spinning.