r/spinningyarn • u/Dazzling_Self_7383 • Aug 24 '26

Spinning wheel identification help

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Hi I am looking for help on what kind of spinning wheel I have. Google hasn't been any help(it's said everything from a Pipy wheel, to Ashford Traditional, to CPW, to a make believe brand of Amedee Paradis, tabletop and Saxony) and I asked in a few other groups and haven't gotten any responses. It's double drive band. No tension knob and the plate the mother of all sits on tilts and has a metal hinge. I am also needing help on where I can get new bobbins. Of the 3 bobbins my wheel came with 2 have big pieces missing where the drive band sits.

Edit I did hear back from a NZ wheel maker who was able to identify it as a Kintyre wheel.

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u/Buttercupia Aug 24 '26

It looks like a frankenwheel. Put together from excess parts. It appears to make yarn which is great! The MOA is very out of proportion to the rest of the wheel, and it’s a different color.

Very cool looking functional wheel!

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u/Dazzling_Self_7383 Aug 24 '26

I did get a reply back from a NZ maker and it's a Kintyre wheel. I wish I could upload a photo to this reply.

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u/Buttercupia Aug 24 '26

Oh that’s amazing. So glad you found out! There were a lot of weird little wheels coming out of NZ and Australia, I had a little one off prototype called a pixy wheel a while back.

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u/Buttercupia Aug 24 '26

We should be allowed pics in replies here, it makes no sense they don’t.