1930 Weavers Delight

Had the delight today of picking up this loom for free from a gentleman that wanted to find a good home for it since after 20 yrs. he had not spent time to put it together, restore it.The Weavers Delight is a semi automatic loom **note from a sight on old looms says -  The previous owners a Community Weaving Group disbanded prior this man obtaining it. He found that someone had sawn off the flying shuttle.We plan on converting the loom once we figure out how it goes together after we get the original manual copy from the Weavers Friend site. Then from there we plan on adding more harnesses / convert it over to treadles. Also on the sectional warp beam again someone in the weaving group sawed off all the wood posts and put metal looped posts on and not all of them. We plan on the whole wood bean on each part of the sectional warp......make all new, drill and add new posts using either hardwood dowels or a material my husband says is called Acetal in his machinist catalog.It was a delightful day meeting this man and receiving this loom. He asked us to come into his home to see his weaving studio.....2 very large looms, one a Studio the other I can't remember.Soon I'll be heading to pick up the 1940's Union #36 I bought, clean that up and give in a little TLC - it's sturdy and sound. Then start weaving rugs. Then we will move onto the Weavers Delight restoration / converting this winter.