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Jacey introduces the episode and Roy Clemes.
Roy Clemes, maker of Clemes & Clemes tools, introduces you to a carder, its parts, and how it works.
There are a lot of tools you can use with a drum carder. Roy, Clemes & Clemes tool maker, explains each one and when you use it including burnishing brush, packing brush, flicker, cleaning brush, lock pop, diz, dowels, doffer, batt lifter, etc.
Roy teaches how to feed fiber into a drum carder, how to find each carder’s capacity, using a flicker and lock pop, and why to feed your locks in tip first. You might think you know how to drum card, but you’ll learn more than one new thing from Roy!
What do you do with yarns that aren’t smooth? Here are some ideas from PLY readers.
