I am a total weaving newbie (~10 days) who had a brief "lesson" and wove some samples on a borrowed Dorothy table loom.
Then I got the wild idea to check craigslist and found a very reasonably priced (at least it seemed so to me) Schacht 4 shaft floor loom circa 1988. So I had a nice little drive today and picked her up. It seems the woman who had her for a couple of years never wove. And it seems I am missing a few screw and bolts but she seems to be coming together. (There was a quick trip to the hardware store this evening and another planned for tomorrow morning.)
I am a little confused about attaching the brake. The assembly instructions from the schacht site tell about adjusting the brake but I'm not ready for adjusting until I figure out how to connect it. There seems to be more cable than I know what to do with.
With the loom, I got the bench, and a warping board and a bobbin winder. And a boat shuttle and some other stick shuttles (sorry, I'm not totally up on the weaving vocab.).
And there is another "part" that came with, that I believe is not part of the Schacht, but is a Brittany tapestry loom. There are some other extra parts that I haven't figured out, that may be related to the Brittany.