Stewmac doing Mojotone stuff

[the great waldo]

Hello Chaps

I just got a mailer from stewmac who are now selling the mojo pup winder, any comments?

Cheers

Andrew

[zparts]

Hello Chaps

I just got a mailer from stewmac who are now selling the mojo pup winder, any comments?

Cheers

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

We are so excited that our friends at Stewmac are distributing some of our Mojotone products! I feel like all of this hard work is finally starting to pay off!

[Beef Coon]

Hi Andrew,

We are so excited that our friends at Stewmac are distributing some of our Mojotone products! I feel like all of this hard work is finally starting to pay off!

Are those your butyrate HB bobbins they're now offering as well?

[David King]

Glad to hear that the less than stellar Shatten winder is finally off the menu.

[Lollar Jason]

Last time I taught a pickup making class at roberto venn they had a couple mojotone winders along with the schattens we had been using and the winder I designed. The mojos were pretty nice. Probably taught a couple hundred people to wind over the last several years so i have seen the schattens used alot and they are ok for someone making a handful of pickups once in a while but having a little more speed and torque is really important if you are going to do more than an occasional coil. having the winder slow down to almost a "crawl" when you tension the wire......

[David Schwab]

Last time I taught a pickup making class at roberto venn they had a couple mojotone winders along with the schattens we had been using and the winder I designed. The mojos were pretty nice. Probably taught a couple hundred people to wind over the last several years so i have seen the schattens used alot and they are ok for someone making a handful of pickups once in a while but having a little more speed and torque is really important if you are going to do more than an occasional coil. having the winder slow down to almost a "crawl" when you tension the wire......

The only way I have been able to use my Schatten for the past 10 years is because I disconnected the motor's belt and chucked a DeWalt variable speed drill to the left axle. It was supposed to be a temporary fix, but it works great. Plenty of speed and torque!

With the original motor I could stop it running if I pinched the wire hard enough!

[Lollar Jason]

yeah we had a few of the motors burn up and replaced them. A drill chucked onto the spindle Very practicle!

At the time those were the only hobby winders available and they do work but time marches on- thats why I designed the winder in my book the way I did, I have several that are still running 20 years later that have had over a million turns on them and they are still running great.
WSC gave me a prototype winder they made about a year ago- its really sweet but they havent done anything with it yet.

[David Schwab]

I thought the motor went bad, and they sent me a new one.. or had me buy a new one. Only it wasn't the motor, it was the speed controller board. At this point I had been using the winder about 4 years I think.

My plan was to replace the motor and speed control. But I had pickups to wind. So I did the drill trick. I liked it so much I just left it that way. Schatten wanted me to send them the winder! I had a couple of, um, interesting conversations with him on the phone. He said no one could build a winder like this until CNC was invented for the pulleys... ... only these are off the shelf aluminum pulleys. At that point I figured I'd cut my loses and just use the drill until I make a new winder.