Homemade Blending Hackle

My love is experimenting on how to build a nice blending hackle. For the first try he took a piece of wood, drilled some holes and fixed nails that are 120 mm long and 4.5 mm thick.


The disadvantage with the nails is that they are a bit too thick and not so smooth at the points.... around here we couldn't find any nails that are thinner and still that long.
For the next model we are planning to use stainless-steel tines with a thickness of 3 mm.

Here are some pictures of our prototype in action!
First we dyed some merino wool and tussah silk in pretty colours, and now we are blending them on the hackle. On the last picture you can see the first combed tops - they are heavenly fluffy fiber "clouds" and I can't wait to spin them!

Here you find an instructive and funny video on how to blend fibers on the hackle!