Join A Guild, Get A Wheel

I joined Spindles & Flyers and came home with a hand-built Rick Reeves Frame Wheel!
It is so pretty!
I am in love!
The details are magnificent.
Built-in whorl storage.
The medullary rays of quarter-sawn oak.

It is in great shape.  I also got a lazy kate and four extra bobbins.  It could use a general cleaning and dusting.  And the treadle connection could stand to be updated.
I doubt the wheel came with shoe lace technology.

Time to put a new drive band on it and take it for a spin (I admit it; the pun is intended).

What I don't know about this wheel is when it was built.  The woman I bought it from ordered it directly from Rick Reeves (I think).  If it is signed, I don't know where to find the signature. 

It was an impulse buy.  It didn't help that Renee, Kathleen, and Sara were all egging me on to buy it.  (Such enablers!  Truth be told, I think it was to save them from buying it.)  I have no regrets though, just questions.  Anyone out there have any thoughts on the wheel?

Comments

[michelle]

Oooh! She's beautiful! You all are making it so hard to stay a one wheel woman :)

I might post on the spinning boards on Ravelry. Someone there is sure to know something.

Joining a spinning guild is one of the smartest things I've ever done.

[Lisa]

Sorry I can't help you out with any info, but wow, it sure is gorgeous!

[aija]

SO beautiful!! Wow. I love the little details you've shown.

[Liz]

Oh, that is so pretty.

I signed up for a drop spindle class tonight. It seems like a slippery slope to complete fiber craziness! But I promised my fiance I wouldn't buy a wheel for a few years.

[Gwen]

Beautiful wheel.

Lovely wood.

Have fun with the new friend!

[Ronni]

Very pretty indeed. I love it when attention to detail shows. I've no idea where to look for a signature. Did the woman you bought it from say how long she'd had it? And how come no one at Spindles & Flyers had a theory or seven?

[ck]

Yeesh! I think I need to join a guild if I can get a hold of one of those :)

[elizabeth]

No thoughts other than I'm jealous!

[jessie]

I know nothing about the wheel other than that it is gorgeous and I am jealous.

Lucky you!

[Laurie]

Knitigator Kathy has one (knitigator.typepad.com). You may want to email her.

[Shelly]

I just googled Reeves Wheels because a friend of my parents gave hers to me...she found it at a rummage sale! The thing that I'm chuckling about it is that my dad fixed my tredle with a shoe lace too! Great minds think a like!!!

[Erin]

It is beautiful, and if you ever want to sell it, let me know! :)