
Bluster Bay End-feed Boat Shuttles with Honex Tension
For perfect selvedges and speedy weaving, many weavers prefer end-feed boat shuttles. These boat shuttles use special end-feed bobbins called pirns that do not spin. Rather, the yarn is released off the end of the stationary pirn, through a tensioning device and then out the side of the shuttle. We offer end-feed shuttles with two different tensioning systems: The Honex tensioner really excels with smooth, evenly spun yarns in a wide range of sizes from very fine silk to 3/2 perle cotton. Our traditional hook and eye tensioner works well with handspun or slubby yarns as well as most commercially spun yarn. HONEX TENSIONED END-FEED BOAT SHUTTLES are very easy to thread are well balanced have a very fine tension adjustment to handle a wide range of yarn weights are available with either open or closed bottoms. 11″ Honex Tensioned End-Feed Boat Shuttles This is a smaller Honex tensioned end-feed shuttle than any others we’ve found. Depending upon wood choice they can also be very li