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asemery Funditor Offline Posts: 597 Gender:	Goschenhoppen Folk Festival-Net Making Demonstration-Photos added Jul 28^th, 2016 at 4:10pm Once again I will be demonstrating net making, giving free net making lessons and displaying my traditional Pennsylvania Dutch nets at the Goschenhoppen Historians Folk Festival http://www.goschenhoppen.org/folk-festival.html I will be there Saturday, August 13 only. Tony
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perpetualstudent Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1405 Gender:	Re: Goschenhoppen Folk Festival Reply #1 - Jul 28^th, 2016 at 5:18pm Ah, you ought to live in WI so I could come to one of these
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Goschenhoppen Folk Festival Reply #2 - Jul 29^th, 2016 at 7:37am lol Goschenhoppen is in america ? Figured probably holland, and then wondered why it was all in english
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asemery Funditor Offline Posts: 597 Gender:	Re: Goschenhoppen Folk Festival-Net Making Demonstration Reply #3 - Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 6:36pm A couple of my traditional Pa Dutch nets
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Reply #4 - Aug 14^th, 2016 at 7:56am

Horse powered (treadmill) grain thresher

Fence hole post drill

Foot powered lathe

Pit saw set-up

Wooden geared rope maker
Standing end

Travelling end - demonstrator stands on plank and turns handle- whole apparatus travels forward as twist in rope develops

Cobblestone maker

Knife and other blade sharpener - note water dripping on stone

Several years ago at the festival a fellow craftsman asked me to make a small fish trap to catsh sunfish and other small fish in his farm pond. He never picked up the trap so I kept the trap for display.

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Reply #5 - Aug 14^th, 2016 at 9:07am

I think those spring powered lathes are having a minor revival. I saw one on the cover of a woodworking magazine and you can find a few videos on youtube of them. I love old tech so to me it's fascinating.

The rope walk...now that's been on my "to do" list for a while. Haven't found a good pattern for gears yet though. Once I get a rope walk up and running I'll feel justified in buying a large amount of twine since I can make rope out of it easily when I want something thicker.

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Caldou Funditor Offline Moving the world... rock by rock. Posts: 779 Picardie, France	Re: Goschenhoppen Folk Festival-Net Making Demonstration-Photos added Reply #6 - Sep 9^th, 2016 at 5:34am Perpet', you know you can do transform twine into cords with 2 sticks and an anchor point, right ? Just to deprieve you of a good excuse You can also use a slave, but they tend to cost more those days...
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Reply #7 - Sep 9^th, 2016 at 12:53pm

lol

I've hand twisted a fair amount of rope and had the thumb blisters to prove it. I've seen people using spinning weights (like a penknife) to make 2 strand cord without actually having to twist with their fingers but that's limited to small lengths.

What I really want is a set up so I can make multi-yarn 3 strand rope, and then make cable out of the rope. I'm fooling with the idea of using a bike chain, that seems to be easiest way to mesh multiple sized gears together.

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Reply #8 - Sep 9^th, 2016 at 7:22pm

perpetualstudent wrote on Aug 14^th, 2016 at 9:07am:

I think those spring powered lathes are having a minor revival. I saw one on the cover of a woodworking magazine and you can find a few videos on youtube of them. I love old tech so to me it's fascinating.

The rope walk...now that's been on my "to do" list for a while. Haven't found a good pattern for gears yet though. Once I get a rope walk up and running I'll feel justified in buying a large amount of twine since I can make rope out of it easily when I want something thicker.

You don't need an elaborate set-up to make rope

making rope with a hand drill tutorial

making rope with a hand drill part 2

making rope with a hand drill part 3

4 stick rope making tutorial

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