Food for thought....

Alden got the samples yesterday - yeah! And he didn't act like they sucked, so - Double Yeah! :grin: He did, however, give me lots more to consider before sending him a check...
( Cut to not bore people to death )

So, lots to think about...

In other news, we dropped off our entries last night. At the last second, Himself decided to enter his model of the Alamo (J. did the cutting and fitting, he helped glue and paint it). They said sure, so....I didn't have to haul it home. :grin: They asked if I could demo tomorrow, but it's tax season, and I've already got next Friday off, so.....NEXT YEAR I will plan on taking that Friday off to demo (Promise, guys! I'll be there!) I've already got my baskets packed (roving/book/notebook/niddy/noste in 1, some samples in the other. Had to leave room for the entries to come home!)

I'll be at the Fair Grounds Saturday from about 10 AM to 4-ish PM, with....one of the AA's. I'm leaning towards the Norwegian, since it's what most people think of when they think "spinning wheel"...but we'll see. It's got the most bobbins (so I wouldn't have to stop, switch flyer arrays, and ply)...but....1 bobbin has some silk/merino on it, and I don't want to spin *that* in public, and I really don't want to wind off onto a storage bobbin yet - this bobbin's not full! (/whine). That's just an excuse....the Norwegian *is* smaller...so...yeah. :grin: (Bigger drive wheel, slightly larger footprint, but it's shorter, so the overall feeling is "small". It's actually pretty deceiving...:lol:)

Back to the 1120S.....fun, fun, fun.

Wow...

that was fast - AA already responded to this morning's email (usually it takes 24 hours or so....he must have had a free moment to check the 'puter).

I'm going with a 28" Cansax (that's Canadian Saxony, for those not "in the know"...it took me a minute, too..especially when he mentioned the reasons I *don't* want the Amsax...:grin:), with extra flyer array. It's well under the base price of the 36", which is good - more free funds for wool! - even with the added flyer and shipping.

I'm also on the cancellation list (although I honestly can't see *anyone* cancelling an order for one of his wheels - to each his own, I guess!), just in case 1 comes up before he gets to me. At this point, I don't know what the wait list is....his webpage says 12 - 18 months for the Cansax, so I figure 24 months is average. (Not to mock him - he's busy, and he's a true artist; very particular about what leaves his shop. My Scottish wheel took right at 9 months - I ordered it about 2.5 months before I got preggers with Herself, and it was delivered 3 months before she was born. The Norwegian took 36 months - but part of *that* was me not really knowing what I wanted, and Alden having to "lead" me in the right direction. :lol:)

Now, we wait on the IRS......hurryhurryhurry...