The search for a new wheel continues, with lots of great options but no consensus.

My ultimate choice is a Bosworth Journey wheel.
http://www.journeywheel.com/jw.php

They are engineered extremely well, of beautiful quality, and from what I have heard and the ratios presented, extremely diverse to spin on. They are stunning, and more importantly, the ENTIRE WHEEL folds up to briefcase size, without unhooking any components. It is truly meant for travel, but completely fully functioning for home use. And the price is right.

The problem? Over 1 year wait. I can understand this, as they are each handcrafted and lovingly made, as well as extremely popular. My quandary? I want instant gratification. I want to replace the rickety, slow, oil-sucking, cheaply made Ashford Traveller that I have nearly outspun with the levels of production I used during the summer. It can be worked with, reassembled from it's cannibalized state we reduced it to for the big move, and I can live with it that long for a wheel that lovely... but really, I'd rather not. Especially with it's competitor in mind.

Said competitor is the Majacraft Suzie Pro.
http://www.majacraft.co.nz/wheels/suzie_pro.php

With it's necessary extras is is almost the same price as the Journey wheel, and a beautiful, strong, durable, fast production wheel that I have heard nothing but good things about. They are also handcrafted, but on a factory rather than workshop scale, and I can get my grubby paws on one as soon as hubby puts aside the money, which will be next month. You see, I am owed a new wheel for a Birthday present (said birthday being May 12... yes, long past but we had a baby, an anniversary, and Mother's Day plus a move two days after it occurred - are we all sensing the lack of cash here?) I am ready and raring to get spinning again after doing none during my whole pregnancy due to fatigue, wrist issues, and generalized burnout after such heights of production last summer.

But I am re-energized, ready to break out new dye, paint my Blue Face Leicester and Wensleydale to heart's content and get some new skeins out there for sale. I am SO torn between these two wheels. Both are beautiful, functional, and exactly what I'd love in terms of portability but I must choose, and while I know I will own both within a few years, do I want to wait a year and get the Journey Wheel first, or unpack a beautiful Suzie Pro and get spinning whenever Callie will allow?

It is really a quandary and the only solution seems to be wheedling with the hubby to buy me the Suzie, but be allowed to get on the Journey Wheel waitlist so I can get one at the end of next year. It is a $100 deposit, which is doable, and I think with enough begging I can swing both.

Alas, if the Journey Wheel was available right now I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but great work takes time and I am willing to wait....

Just not wheel-less (the damn Traveller doesn't count! That this creaks.)