S1E11: Start Drumcarding
Whether you're new to carding or have been doing it for year, you'll learn from Roy Clemes! He's been building and teaching on them for years and is excited to teach you what he knows. From how different drumcarders work, the tools you can use in conjunction with them (there are a lot), how to figure out your drumcarder's capacity, how to clean, maintain, and adjust your drumcarder, how to build a batt (for woolen and worsted-style batts) and more!
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S1E11.1 - Start Drumcarding: Intro
Jacey talks about what's coming up in this episode.
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S1E11.2 - Start Drumcarding: meet the carder
what's a drumcarder and what can it do? Roy tells ya!
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S1E11.3 - Start Drumcarding: All the tools
There are a lot of tools you can use with a drumcarder. Roy explains each one and when you use it including burnishing brush, packing brush, flicker, cleaning brush, lock pop, diz, dowels, doffer, batt lifter etc.
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S1E11.4 - Start Drumcarding: Feeding the carder
Roy teaches how to feed fiber into a drum carder, how to find the carder's capacity, using a flicker and lock pop, and why to feed your locks in tip first.
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S1E11.5 - Start Drumcarding: Build a batt
The whole process from filtering to removing to cleaning, build a batt with Roy Clemes!
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S1E11.6 - Start Drumcarding: Adjusting and maintaining
How do you adjust and maintain your drumcarder? Roy walks you through it!
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S1E11.7 - Start Drumcarding: Woolen and worsted batts
You can make woolen batts or worsted-style batts, Roy Clemes talks about both and how they compare.
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S1E11.8 - Teacher tea with Roy Clemes
Jacey sits down with Roy and they talk community, carders, family, and spinning.
