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The reason I don't think using a vintage winder is a must is the one experiment I did putting all PAF parts into an exactly replicated set of bobbins and wound with modern wire of the same diameter. I used the PAF magnet as well. The results were searingly bright as the same turn count and slop added. This says to me the magnet wire of those days was pretty crappy and significantly warmed up the tone, and I have run across engineers chatting about magnet wire of the 50's as being total junk in some forum online. I've also seen in some of these commercial jobs that they are using very high TPL counts which I assume is to try to tame the treble, but then again they are using wrong alloys on everything but the slugs, alloys that make no sense and backwards of what was done or just off the wall stuff like extremely hard pole screws. It makes me wonder how much serious research did any of these commercial outfits do at all.....

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I wish we could get Pat to import some Korean wire, Alex used to sell it, some of the spools were dinged in the coil, they were ten pound spools and probably about the same diameter and quality the old PAF magnet wire was. Pat said something about it being too hard to deal with or something...I used it for a long time on strat coils and it was really good there, the 43 gauge version was real fragile and would short out under much tension at all....