I recently needed some extra arrow pegs - the little pegs you use with texsolv.   Looking around, I discovered that golf tees are perfect substitutions in areas where you have the space.   They are more pointed than actual arrow pegs, and because of their longer length, are much easier to put in.   I guess you could also cut them off and sharpen them in a pencil sharpner to make them smaller.   Plus, you can buy them by the hundreds for not much money!

 

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Mon, 07/15/2013 - 15:48

kerstinfroberg

yes, but how do you make them stay in? At least my arrow pegs have a "waist" between the arrowpoint and the fatter stop.

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 16:28

SallyE (not verified)

In my particular use, gravity made them stay in.  

But if for example, you were using them for the texsolv that runs from a lam through a treddle, and if you have a little bit of spare length in your texsolv, you can pull the texsolve through the treddle as usual, and then around the bottom of the treddle back to the top, put a golf tee in and stick it into one of the adjacent holes at the top of the treddle.   It's so much easier to adjust the lengths from the top than from the bottom!   Here is a picture:

You can also just take the end of the tee and push it back through the chord, once like shown below, or a second time also (not shown).   In this case I just did a loop to show you so there is no tension on the chord, but when there is tension the tee stays pretty much in line with the chord.

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 16:33

SallyE (not verified)

I just needed more arrow pegs than I had, and started trying the golf tees.   They might not work everywhere, but for where I've tried them so far, they work better than arrow pegs, and they are a LOT less expensive.

 

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 20:47

sandra.eberhar…

Do you use them to hold the cords in the holes of your 20+?  I used stiff poly cord for the treadle tie ups and changed to texsolv when the cords came through the holes in the board, which was a royal pain.  I thought of golf tees, but wasn't sure if they would hold the fairly stiff and slick poly cord.  The poly cord is much more resistant to  abrasion than texsolv and a whole lot cheaper.  I'm trying to decide whether to replace the chain tie ups on a TOTT loom I just got with texsolv.  Texsolv would be quieter....

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 21:35

SallyE (not verified)

I originally bought the golf tees to build a 20+, but ended up turning that loom into a compu dobby (stay tuned for that posting!), which is why I had the tees laying around.

When I was experimenting with building a 20+, I decided that I would run a nylon or poly chord from the lams to the treddles to just before it hit the peg board at the back (to save the cost of running texsolv the whole way).   At that point, I would tie on a short piece of texsolv with a larks head.   If I had done that, I could use bigger holes in the peg board, and the golf tee would go through one of the texsolv holes, and then into the hole in the peg board.

Now, it might sound like the chord could just slip off the golf tee in this arrangement, but from the testing I did, it wouldn't because there wasn't enough force on the chords to drag the extra texsolv past the bulging part of the golf tee and through the hole.   Of course, you have to drill a "just right" sized hole, but that is just a matter of picking the right drill bit and experimenting a little.   In testing, I did this and couldn't pull it out using all my might.  The golf tee ended up jamming the texsolve into the hole too tight for it to move past the tee, and the more I pulled on it, the more the tee tried to move into the hole, and the thicker part of the tee jammed it in even more.   And yet, it wasn't too difficult to pull of the golf tee when you pull from the other direction.

But like I said, I never got around to that.    I'll probably be building a 20+ over the fall / winter however.   And then I'll let you know for sure!