I've done a little reading. Some people can spin it straight from the bol but it's more difficult.
AND I've looked up Eli Whitney's first cotton gin. Seems like simple consept. I thought they were complicated machinery.
Sometime in the near future AFTER all the holiday crazy, I think I'll try...
When I was a smart AXX punk kid, my dad made me pick a full sack of late summer cotton just to show me how good we had it even in the worst of times.
It's a good life lesson.
Every kid should have to "hoe a row for a dime a day" just to clear the cobwebs from their Nintendo numbed brains.