Pickup winding machines....

sixstringsupplies · April 2018

School me.

I’ve ummmmmd are arrrrrrd for months over whether or not to get into pickups.

but running a guitar electronics business...it’s inevitable one day and something I would love to try out.

what winding machines would you recommend?

any experience/knowledge would be great.

Roland · April 2018

Which part of the market are you targeting? Rather than committing the time and capital it might be possible to work with one of the small UK winders.

Clashman · April 2018

Couldn't you use the copper wire from old radio's or is it too thick?

WezV · April 2018

I have an original copy of the lollar book on making a winder. I wouldn’t recommend it, other than to show 1 specific way of building a DIY winder with very specific parts.

I would probably buy or make a version of the schatten winder as a first port of call. It’s basic but will get you into hand winding. Then you just need to wind and test a few dozen until you start to get some consistency

WezV · April 2018

I should say, my first was done with a drill press set as slow as possible and a very crude wire guide. I managed to make a trio of 6k strat Pickups that sounded okay. Made a couple of humbuckers too. Then ticked it off the list and carried on paying others to do it

sixstringsupplies · April 2018

Roland said:

Which part of the market are you targeting? Rather than committing the time and capital it might be possible to work with one of the small UK winders.

given the competition and we are truly spoilt for choice in the UK for boutique/high end pickups, it would only be a mid-range to complement other products on the website.

With that in mind....probably a non-starter.

WezV said:

I should say, my first was done with a drill press set as slow as possible and a very crude wire guide. I managed to make a trio of 6k strat Pickups that sounded okay. Made a couple of humbuckers too. Then ticked it off the list and carried on paying others to do it

drill press: love it. I watched a video last night on converting a sewing machine into a coil winding machine which has given me the bug.

I agree though - for the moment probably best to leave the pros to it.

m_c · April 2018

Have a search for coil winder.
A basic one wouldn't be that hard to make. Personally for something basic, I'd make a holding jig that fits directly onto a stepper motor, use a cheap stepper driver controlled via an Arduino for speed control (Arduino means you can use a potentiometer for speed control without much effort), add an LCD for rotation counting, and through in a bit coding.

Other option would be a small DC motor (would likely have to be a geared motor to get sensible RPM), a basic PWM controller, and potentiometer. Simpler on the electric side, but you could add a basic pulse counter to get the number of turns.

streethawk · April 2018

I have a cnc one but it's a dear do.

sixstringsupplies · April 2018

streethawk said:

I have a cnc one but it's a dear do.

is that this beast?

streethawk · April 2018

sixstringsupplies said:

streethawk said:

I have a cnc one but it's a dear do.

is that this beast?

Yes. A tiny beast to be fair.

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