Category: sweet spot
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Sweet
fell is 4 inches from the breast beam with beater forward up against the fell, the web is just touching the shuttle race with the fell now 3 inches from the breast beam… the beater is now ‘scraping’ across the web as the web needs to bend to get by the shuttle race There…
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Textured/Grabby/Hairy
The general rule is that the fell line should be contained within the ‘sweet spot’ – approximately 2″ right between the breast beam and the reed. There are times, however, when it helps to adjust where the fell line will actually be. In the above photo, the fell is much closer to the breast beam…