The New Loom Has Been Ordered

It is an AVL Workshop Loom.  I have been thinking about one for at least a year and I finally ordered it on Friday.

It is a CompuDobby loom (for the non-weavers out there - you design on your computer and the computer determines which shafts to raise.

It has 24 shafts (my current looms have 4 and 8 shafts) - so it will allow me to do much more complicated patterns.

It is labeled as a workshop loom and advertised as being able to "travel", but I looked at the video on taking it apart and it looks like to much work for me.  

I would have loved a wider loom but space is at a premium.  Its weaving width is only 24 inches which is not as wide as my 8 shaft loom but …. since I decided to keep my 8 shaft loom, this loom needs to go into the space that my 4 shaft loom is in so I had to buy something small.

After this loom arrives - not until October, I will sell my 4 shaft Dorsett loom.

For the weavers out there - I did not purchase the sectional beam - should I have?  The guy at AVL said that most of there sales are of sectional beams but I have never used a sectional beam and was not sure about it on a loom of this size.  Any opinions?

Right now I am excited about getting this (but not about putting it together once it comes).