seems to me that a loom is a device to organize thread, right? I do not own one, but looking at the price of some of them, I am not sure that I will! I have seen pics in catalogs, and it looks like one could be built very easily. I am thinking about using a piece of plexiglas for the base and gluing some foam w/ equally spaced slits cut into it to hold the treads. Does anybody have any other suggestions?

That's pretty much the jist of things.
The one I have is made of white ABS like plastic with slitted foam and numbered to keep track of your threads.

Regards
Dave

Fishing is Life the rest is just Details

There have been plans for making your own weaving jig in several issues of RodMaker Magazine. In fact, Volume 9 #3 has an excellent and inexpensive set of plans for making one by none other than Jim Upton, the man who invented the Wonder Weaver.

................

Here's a jig/loom that I made from soem EVA blocks I had laying around...
[www.rodbuilding.org]

Thanks guys, stopped by the local hardware store today and picked up some plexiglas. got out the old jigsaw and cut it to size. Now I have my own loom!

Heck a lot of good weaves have been done with just using double sided tape

Good Wraps Bob

When I built mine I cut a 1" wide ring off the top of a foam soda can huggie and glued it around a PVC end cap. Then it was just a matter of using a very sharp blade and adding the slits around the perimeter and numbering them.

Thanks,
Chad Huderle

Huderle Custom Rods
Prior Lake, MN