Pickup Winding Machine

[Drakkn Guitars]

After reading through the thread - does anyone have a design for a pickup winding machine - the commercial ones seem so expensive that I think I would like to make my own.

[kevinT]

After reading through the thread - does anyone have a design for a pickup winding machine - the commercial ones seem so expensive that I think I would like to make my own.

You have a wide assortment of choices to get started. Some relatively cheap...some not.....Folks have created winders from hand drills, sewing machines, and wood lathes. Or you could get the $400 Schatten winder sold by stewmac. Or build the Lollar-designed winding machine...instructions via his book.

Also look on the coil winders subforum at the top of the page for some ideas and pics of what others are using.

[PTAudioLabs]

Hi Drakkn Guitars , have a look at this site for some insperation. You will never look at an old sewing machine the same way :-)

http://designed2wind.alphalink.com.au/index.html

Have fun

Peter T.

[Jason Hitsquad]

I know this is an old thread, but I was looking around for info on making a pick up winding machine and I found this book by Jason Lollar - Pickup Winding Book

There is also a review of the book at http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/990927/17.shtml

[Possum]

Jason's winder got many of us started in the business. Costs almost nothing to make as long as you have the tools to work in wood...

[ken]

Buy Jason's book, but ***only*** from Jason.

Please don't give your money to somebody who simply burns copies onto a CD and sells them on Ebay.

ken

I started out with one of Jason's winders too, but mine is aluminum...

[Possum]

Ebay will seize your paypal funds if they catch anyone violating copyrighted material by scanning onto disc or photocopies etc. Jason tried selling his books on Ebay and they thought he was just some guy selling pirate copies and caused him all kinds of pain ;-) If you ever see anyone doing this with Jason's book email Ebay and report it, its against the law....

I built two of Jason's winders, one for reverse winding. The problems I encountered were the auto cam is difficult to adjust and eventually took it off and used the control rod for the wire guide in a hand guided method. The other problem was making a totally centered and perfect true running faceplate. I ended up buying pre-made plexiglass discs from the chain store that sells all kinds of plastics, I forget their name but they sell nationwide in small stores. Even that wobbled a little despite my best attempts. I finally went to a machinist and had 2 aluminum machined faceplates made that were perfectly true, I use both of them on my Adams Maxwell winders even now. They cost me about $70 for the two and honestly I'd recommend having one made from the start to avoid alot of headaches. I also found that having a light dimmer switch rotating knob gave me better control over the motor than the foot pedal.

[Jason Hitsquad]

Thanks for the advice - I ordered it directly from Jason Lollar's website