Bluster Bay Honex End Feed Shuttle
For perfect selvedges and speedy weaving, many weavers prefer end-feed boat shuttles. These boat shuttles use special end-feed bobbins called pirns that do not spin. Rather, the yarn is released off the end of the stationary pirn, through a tensioning device and then out the side of the shuttle.
We offer end-feed shuttles with two different tensioning systems:
- The Honex tensioner really excels with smooth, evenly spun yarns in a wide range of sizes from very fine silk to 3/2 perle cotton.
- Our traditional hook and eye tensioner works well with handspun or slubby yarns as well as most commercially spun yarn.
HONEX TENSIONED END-FEED BOAT SHUTTLES
- are very easy to thread
- are well balanced
- have a very fine tension adjustment to handle a wide range of yarn weights
- are available with either open or closed bottoms.
11″ Honex Tensioned End-Feed Boat Shuttles
This is a smaller Honex tensioned end-feed shuttle than any others we've found. Depending upon wood choice they can also be very light weight. These end-feed shuttles are perfect for:
- fine, smooth yarn
- use with any kind of loom, including table looms or floor looms with small sheds
- weavers with small hands
These shuttles are 11.5 inches long, 1.625 inches wide and 1.25 inches tall. The aluminum spindles are spring-loaded and designed to carry our lightweight and inexpensive tapered paper pirns.
EF-11-O-Hx 11-inch open bottom, Honex tensioned
EF-11-C-Hx 11-inch closed bottom, Honex tensioned
Each Honex tensioned shuttle is shipped with an Allen wrench for adjusting the tensioner.
15″ Honex Tensioned End-Feed Boat Shuttles
Our 15-inch end-feed shuttles are a bit smaller than our original 15″ hook-tensioned shuttles described below. They are just a little narrower, a bit shorter and not quite as wide. The bronze spindles are spring-loaded and designed to carry our Bluster Bay brand plastic 8″ pirns.
EF-15-O-Hx 15-inch open bottom, Honex tensioned
EF-15-C-Hx 15-inch closed bottom, Honex tensioned
Shipped with an Allen wrench for adjusting the tensioner.
Please see our instructions for tensioning the yarn in your Bluster Bay Honex tensioned end-feed shuttle, and for correctly winding pirns.
- are simple to thread and adjust
- require no tools for tension adjustment
- are lightweight and well balanced
- handle a wide range of yarn types and weights
- are available in three lengths with either open or closed bottoms.
11″ End-Feed Boat Shuttles
Designed for customers who desire a smaller, lighter weight end-feed shuttle than any others currently on the market. These small end-feed shuttles are perfect for:
- narrow warps
- use with table looms or floor looms with small sheds
- weavers with small hands
These shuttles are 11 inches long, 1.625 inches wide and 1.25 inches tall. The aluminum spindles are spring-loaded and designed to carry our lightweight and inexpensive tapered paper pirns.
EF-11-O 11-inch open bottom, Hook tensioned
EF-11-C 11-inch closed bottom, Hook tensioned
13″ & 15″ End-Feed Boat Shuttles
These are the standard Bluster Bay end-feed shuttles that weavers have been using and raving about since 1996.
Our 13-inch and 15-inch end-feed shuttles are 1.875 inches wide and are 1.375 inches tall. The bronze spindles are spring-loaded.
Our 13″ end-feed shuttles use Bluster Bay brand plastic 5.5″ pirns or AVL 5.5″ black pirns.
Note: 6″ Schacht pirns will NOT fit these shuttle.
Our 15″ end-feed shuttles use our Bluster Bay brand plastic 8″ pirns. AVL or Schacht 8″ pirns usually work in these shuttles as well..
EF-13-O 13-inch open bottom, Hook tensioned
EF-13-C 13-inch closed bottom, Hook tensioned
EF-15-O 15-inch open bottom, Hook tensioned
EF-15-C 15-inch closed bottom, Hook tensioned
Please see our instructions for tensioning the yarn in your Bluster Bay hook tension end-feed shuttle, and for correctly winding pirns.
PIRNS
PAPERPIRN Bluster Bay brand 4-inch paper pirns for 11″ end-feed shuttles – package of 5
EF-PIRN-05 Bluster Bay brand 5.5-inch plastic pirns for 13″end-feed shuttles – package of 5
EF-PIRN-08 Bluster Bay brand 8-inch plastic pirns for 15″end-feed shuttles – package of 5
Source: http://blusterbaywoodworks.com/shuttles/end-feed-boat-shuttles/
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