Elektrisola 42 AWG 42P155CL?

[David Schwab]

Guys,

I haven't made many pups but I got my wire straight from schattendesign in Waterloo

Schatten Coil Wire For Pickup Winding

That's the same wire Stew-Mac sells. It's often not respooled very well.

[copperheadroads]

my first roll of wire bought was that small roll of schatten wire from stew mac.i was winding a strat pickup i got close to 4000 turns & it broke but not from too much tension but from the spool,it made the wire bind id say not spooled properly so i started over again & i got about 2500 turns & it happened again so i started over with no problems after that i told them & they were good enough to send me another spool with out having to ship the roll back. they told me it happens once in while

[Bill Scheltema]

Electrowind

Well I contacted Electro-wind since they are .45 min from me, shipping is a non-issue.

43 awg on 3" spools approx. 3 lbs per spool (1.2 kg) we sell by the kg
$ 38.01 per kg

43 awg on 6" spools approx 10 lbs per spool (4.0kg)
$ 28.21 per kg

42 awg only on 6" spools approx 10 lbs
$ 23.43 per kg


Canadian funds
based on todays copper prices.
I believe it is the poly/nylon film which would be the Stewmac/Schatten stuff.

Bill Scheltema

[copperheadroads]

it is essex wire 155 solderon you can ask if they have a smaller roll i did get a 4 lb spool of 43 & a 7 lb of 42 from them .its funny usually eBay has always got solderon up in 1 to 2 lb spools, baewire or these guys
eBay Store: Search results for swords science treasures.
i guess the 42 poly is getting rare soon it will be called vintage "hard to find"

[David King]

Unless the Canadian dollar is worth a whole lot more than the US dollar these are very good prices. BAE's cheapest 43 was the green spn 155 and that was $18 lb or about $36/KG.

[Folkcafe]

I received delivery of the spool I ordered and as David indicated, it is 42 heavy.

On the plus side it wasn't horribly expensive, just not what I was hoping for.

I've finally finished the counter and managed to wind a couple of test pickups this evening. I ended up cutting slightly over sized flatwork and wound them fat. I got a Red Lion counter for $10 on Ebay and an optical switch from Newark. It was wonderful to be able to just focus on winding and not have to stop, measure impedance and calculate approximately how much more to wind.

I'll install the pickups in the guitar I'm building when I get a chance to finish it. (in the final assembly stage) From there I'll see how close I get to what I'm looking for.

I intend to exhaust some design ideas using what I have before moving on to experimenting with 43. In my case, it is not the standard fare that I am after. So far the designs have been calculated guesses derived from standard specs. Results of the last few have been a mixed bag. I just don't think the POS Squire is the right test bed, so I've been working on completing the guitar these pickups are intended for. I wound another 3 string pickup to the same impedance but also used the counter. The results turned out the same as the first pickup. The new pickups for the 6 string are wound to the same number of turns. We'll see if I'm on the right track.

In the last month, I've quickly learned tons. Still have a long way left to go.

When the time comes, the 3lb spool of 43 sounds perfect.