After completing my second weave, my search for the next project and continued reading about weaving, I have realised the limitations of a four shaft counter-balance loom.
After some designing, I worked out that I can convert my loom from a counter-balance action to to a countermarch action using offcuts from various joinery projects and some bought items - texsolv cord and anchors. As I'm making fundamental changes and there is room on the loom frame, I've decided to increase the number of shafts to 8 and the treadles to 10.
I choose to have a horizontal countermarch action with pairs of levers for each shaft
A key decision has been how to organise the "tie-up" - the connection of the treadles to the shafts via upper and lower lams (levers that either raise or lower shafts). I discovered a recently developed system called "top-o-the-lam". You can read more about it here. It makes changing the tie up much quicker as one only needs to move anchors rather than moving cords as they all remain permanently in place. It does take a lot of texsolv cord though!
Adjustment of the shaft level is mostly made where they attach to the levers
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