when wire breaks?

[Corcia]

What to do when wire breaks while winding? i've happened to break the wire at more ore less 6.500 turns, i've soldered back (very thin soldering point with very few tin on) and then kept winding, the PU seems ok...
Is this procedure affecting the sound? does a "one piece" coil sound better (or different) from a 2 pieces one?

[Jazz P Bass]

Just my 2 cents.
The soldering of the wire "repaired" the wire.
It is not 2 pieces, it is one.
Why would a blob of solder "change the tone"?
We are talking electron movement.

[big_teee]

Just my 2 cents.
The soldering of the wire "repaired" the wire.
It is not 2 pieces, it is one.
Why would a blob of solder "change the tone"?
We are talking electron movement.

+1
If you don't weaken the wire at the joint and you truly have a good solid soldered connection, You should be good to go.
Most of us have had issues like that and don't want to completely start over.
If I happen to snag the wire and break it at the beginning of the wind, I usually Just start over.
B_T

[David Schwab]

There's nothing wrong with making a splice as long as it's a good connection.

It's hard to solder two ends of the magnets wire, so what I do is to take a small length of hookup wire. I use 28 gauge wire.

I strip about 1/4" long piece and tin it. I use one of those helping hands things to hold it. I take both ends of the broken wire, twist it a round a bit to keep them together, and wrap them around the tinned lead wire about ten times. The I solder those until they are covered with solder. I hold the iron tip on the magnet wire until I see a puff of smoke from the insulation. If you are more comfortable with sanding of scraping the insulation, then do it that way.

Now I test the connection; I attach my meter to the start lead and the splice. If I get a reading that seems about right, then I know I have a good splice.

I then fold a piece of masking taper over it, lay it flat against the coil, and continue winding over the splice.

Like Tee said, if I just started wing the coil when the break happens, I start over. But if I'm several hundred turns in I splice. I rarely have breaks, but this has worked flawlessly for me.

[Jazz P Bass]

Good point about taping it up!
I was looking at it from a mechanical view.