It is so cool for you guys to share this interest with me.
I'm very glad to share whatever I can.
The problem, maybe, is you get my opinions and right now
I have a lot of bad things to say.
Not only about what beginners like me have a selection
to choose from but also the technical information.
Jon you are right on track with me. I just ordered a sewing machine
motor.
Mike here is my take on a winder:
Needs to be variable speed. 0-750 is fine for me- others/experienced may want 1500rpms.
Needs to have bobbin connection on either end or reverse. - I'll go for bobbin on each end.
Needs to have wire guide for hand feeding. - they set so the wire stays fed within the bobbin plates.
Needs to have counter for wraps- I'm going to take a calculator and tap into the equal button and wire a magnetic reed switch that a magnet on the drive shaft will activate every
rotation.
The tensioner and the traverse mechanics are the tricky parts- I don't know what I'll do about that just yet.
The winder is the easy part and I know I can build one for under a $100.00 and it will be
at least as good as
this if not better. That one is a very good example of what I'm shooting
for.
A couple of mods that I think will make mine better...
The varible speed control will be a foot controller- that one is on top of winder/hand controlled.
Mine won't cost $400.00!
Now some of the issues I've come across.
There is double talk about winding - Not so much with single coils. Hand wind is good to go.
But when it comes to Humbuckers ya get a weird report from even the best.
All the talk of PAF ...I heard Seymour Duncan make the statement that he modeled his off
a "sweet one" that he found. Well what he is saying is simple- they are not all the same.
Well that's easy to understand? IT"S NOT when they say that the humbuckers coils are
wound CONTROLLED....meaning that the wraps are machine controlled as is the tension and both coils are "the same" coils.
Then it is folllowed by the NEW best thing is humbuckers that have different coils.
Very confusing.
What it means is very much like music theory. There are all the rules/guidelines and opinions of what's what and how it is.
It is very simple to me....ya build one and ya stick in a guitar and find out.
The trick is to know what ya did and be able to duplicate it so you can see if any of the
"technical" stuff means anything. ( I'm sure it does and "consistancy" is key)
For example: If I wind a single coil with exactly 6500 wraps and read the load and know the guass and magnet type then I should be able to do exactly the same thing and get the
same results...?
Well......remember- single coils are commonly thought of as hand-wound or scatter wound...at least that's what I currently think- THAT leads me to...Abigail Ybarra...
Now she is known as the queen of pickups and no doubt why.
I mean no disrespect in any way but...I have no reason to believe that see is a technical
scientist of magnetic coils.
I have every reason to believe that she was and is a natural at winding a pup. She must
have the natural ability to control tension and to watch the wraps and know how to make
them lay. The most important thing- she can consistantly do it.
That means that when she found the tension and wrap process that created that special
put- she could do it again. Amazing.
Now I could go on and on but all this talk is base on about a week of checking things out so
I could be full of BS. I don't think so and welcome any and all contibutions to the subject(s).
The one fact I currently know- The motor for the winder is $31.99 with shipping.