I've defeated eyelet snag!!

[SonnyW]

I used stewmac flats, even sprayed them with poly after assembly, AND sanded them, AND re-set them; And STILL I got snags underneath...it's just time to go to the hardware store and buy some shaft collars. I'm sure I wont have any problems after that.

-Rob

I hardly ever get eyelet snagging on my strat pickups anymore since I started double lacquer dipping them. I use the mojo flatwork and I even assemble it with the flange of the eyelets on the bobbin side not on the bottom. There is enough lacquer build up between the edge of the eyelet and the flatwork that it just hardly ever snags the wire. I do check that the eyelets are down tight on the forbon before dipping them, and I use a needle file to clean out the lacquer out of the holes before I wind them. I have done hundreds of them this way both by hand and by machine with no snags at all.

[Zhangliqun]

Weird. I just solved it by putting plain ol' scotch tape over the eyelets and haven't had a snag problem since.

Except once in a while when I forget to put the tape on....D'OH!!!

[Zhangliqun]

I do file some burrs off of plastic bobbins though.

That's a must. Especially with some of these humbucker bobbins that require fairly extensive, uh, whittlin'....

[SonnyW]

That's a must. Especially with some of these humbucker bobbins that require fairly extensive, uh, whittlin'....

Actually, whittlin' (with an xacto knife) is exactly what I do and I agree it is a must on HB bobbins. I rarely have to use a file. Now and then there might be a burr on the edge pf the flange that I sand off, but the problems are almost always on the ends of the cores, and the seams on the insides of the flanges.

[David Schwab]

Weird. I just solved it by putting plain ol' scotch tape over the eyelets and haven't had a snag problem since.

Except once in a while when I forget to put the tape on....D'OH!!!

Scotch magic tape is very useful for many things since it's nice and thin. I even use it to cover the truss rod channel to stop glue from getting in when gluing on fingerboards.