No, I’m not about to get rid of all of my wheels just because my wrist has gone decrepit. As a matter of fact this lovely super powerful production wheel is making its way to our other home. Anyways, I’m sort of making some changes around here due to my decrepit wrist. The Van Eaton is a large heavy wheel and since I’m not in such an urgent need of large wheels that are not easily mobile around the house, (already have quite a few around here) it’s making its way to our other home where I can spin leisurely in my free time when I’m overseas. Plus I’ve got two Magnus Drudik wheels that need companionship since I’m bringing home one Drudik to exchange with the spare Lendrum, I’ll tell you about it in a minute. Meanwhile here is the gorgeous Van Eaton production in Quilted & Figured Beeswing Satine Maple.

Close up of Van Eaton Production Drive Wheel

I’m a double treadle gal through and through, can you tell?

Ok now here’s the story to the Lendrum DT, our folks both have the Lendrum Walnut Anniversary wheel. I told them the other day, I wanted a full-size no frills wheel that is possibly mobile unlike my production wheels which I said can withstand being ‘beat up.’ (sorry Lendrum owners, no pun intended) Not that I beat up my wheels, as some of you already know I obsessively keep my wheels in immaculate condition away in my studio. My idea of a beat up wheel is one where I can transport carefully to the kitchen, balcony, living room, study, just about any room in the house where I can spin in my leisure hours, use for teaching (I just acquired a new student who has a Lendrum DT) and plus my wrist is just giving up on me, the Schacht is finally retiring full-time into the studio. While compact, that wheel weighs a ton of bricks and I don’t want to scratch it whatsoever. So here’s the deal, they say I can have the new spare Walnut parts to dress up a new Lendrum maple just to match my furniture in the house; yeah talk about being vain…everything has to be coordinated, in exchange for a long-term loan on one of my Drudiks which I am bringing home. And thus the decision to replace the Drudik with the huge Van Eaton Production. By the way, did you notice that the Van Eaton Production has a flyer on the right. See – that was not supposed to be so because at the time I spin on the left. However, I did ask for a right hand flyer: the way the wheel was built, I had prefered the flyer to be on the right because the upright maiden support on the left appealed to me more than if the flyer were to be on the left and having the maiden support on the right. It’s a visual thing.

Here is the new Potpourri Lendrum accented with the Walnut maiden head and knobs courtesy of my folks. I like it; it does look different and not so blah no more; plus I already have all Walnut and all Maple wheels so this will look pretty in the kitchen or anywhere else in the house just to balance everything out.

On another note, my left wrist/ hand is being treated with supplements that I am currently taking – Flex Companion capsules with chondroitin/ glucosamine/MSM/ Ester-C/ bromelain/ vitamins/ minerals and Vita Flex MSM in its pure form. So hopefully, it’ll help me regenerate. Thank you, those of you who emailed to ask about my wrist.