{"id":862,"date":"2009-12-21T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2014-11-04T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:54:46","slug":"squirrel-cage-swift-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel cage swift progress report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in county fair season (the date on the photo says September 13) we went to the Oxford County fair. I saw a yarn-handling device labelled &#8220;squirrel cage swift&#8221; &#8212; think two hamster exercise wheels with a skein of yarn around the two of them. It takes up lots less space than an umbrella swift but serves the same purpose.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/12\/squirrel_cage_swift.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to make one.<\/p>\n<p>I bought some maple lumber at Lowe&#8217;s in Portland a few weeks ago. Last weekend I cut out five five-inch circles (I only need four for the project, but the board was big enough for five) on my bandsaw. This weekend I put them (one at a time, natch) on the faceplate of the Jet Mini lathe, turned them down to really round, and sanded them. Here&#8217;s halfway in the process, two still the bandsaw product and three looking well sanded &#8212; and I mean well sanded. I was amazed at how good they look:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/12\/swift_wheels.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now &#8212; maybe next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in county fair season (the date on the photo says September 13) we went to the Oxford County fair. I saw a yarn-handling device labelled &#8220;squirrel cage swift&#8221; &#8212; think two hamster exercise wheels with a skein of yarn around the two of them. It takes up lots less space than an umbrella swift &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Squirrel cage swift progress report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}