Gareth @ MAKE writes:
This enterprising fellow built a chakra (a spinning wheel) largely out of cardboard. At the end of the post, he also has links to a bunch of other cheap lo-tek spinning wheel projects available online.
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I love this! I’m always making craft tools out of stuff I have around the house…I’ve been using a t-square as a drop spindle!
Thank you for mentioning my cardboard spinning wheel/charka. Charkha is a word from India that means “wheel.”
There are plenty of pictures on the webpage showing how to build the charkha. I grant permission for anyone who wants to build one for themselves, youth group, classroom, etc.
This project was started by a message posted on the internet. Someone was pleading for a way to build a cheap spinning wheel.
So I started thinking about how someone could build a spinning device very cheaply with no special tools. I looked at a lot of sites on the internet and I found several ideas that I was able to incorporate into my little device.
Anyone is invited to view the website and to build a cardboard spinning wheel.
Have a good day!
Franco Rios