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I've been busy finding bits and pieces for the last month or so to build myself a clone of the Schatten winder.
I'm not exactly done but since it works already I couldn't resist making a pickup with it
I'd like to thank David Schwabb for putting up pics of the guts of the Schatten winder and for his additional help through e-mails with this project.
Here is the guts of the winder. An On/off switch, the 2.1mm jack for the wall wart and the 12 volt DC motor speed controller with its knob. The speed controller is a DIY kit from an electronics shop. The counter is a CUB3 it's activated with a reed switch and magnet. The magnet that came with it didn't work very well so I upgraded it with and alnico V musicman bass magnet that I incrusted in the wooden piece. I superglued two bearings to the sides of the plastic box for the steel rod. The steel rod I originally bought (had to buy a 4 meter length trough a steel supplier
) wasn't straight and the winder wouldn't work properly. I was pissed but I upgraded to a bass neck carbon fiber rod for my tests, it's the only 1/4" rod I had lying around 
I had to drill holes in the wooden piece to accomodate the pole pieces coming out of the flatwork. That's why the bobbin is holding with two pieces of tape.
and here we are half a musicman humbucker, I'm pretty happy the winder works. After doing this I now know that the plastic housing is crap and I'm going to buy an aluminium one to stick all the components in. I'll post another pic once the project is over.
BTW I've searched high and low for aluminium pulleys and can't find them anywhere for this thing and had to live with this crappy plastic set. If anyone's got any links to where you can find small ones for this project I'd be extremely happy. A lathe's too expensive to buy just to machine two pulleys.
I'm not exactly done but since it works already I couldn't resist making a pickup with it
I'd like to thank David Schwabb for putting up pics of the guts of the Schatten winder and for his additional help through e-mails with this project.
Here is the guts of the winder. An On/off switch, the 2.1mm jack for the wall wart and the 12 volt DC motor speed controller with its knob. The speed controller is a DIY kit from an electronics shop. The counter is a CUB3 it's activated with a reed switch and magnet. The magnet that came with it didn't work very well so I upgraded it with and alnico V musicman bass magnet that I incrusted in the wooden piece. I superglued two bearings to the sides of the plastic box for the steel rod. The steel rod I originally bought (had to buy a 4 meter length trough a steel supplier
) wasn't straight and the winder wouldn't work properly. I was pissed but I upgraded to a bass neck carbon fiber rod for my tests, it's the only 1/4" rod I had lying around I had to drill holes in the wooden piece to accomodate the pole pieces coming out of the flatwork. That's why the bobbin is holding with two pieces of tape.
and here we are half a musicman humbucker, I'm pretty happy the winder works. After doing this I now know that the plastic housing is crap and I'm going to buy an aluminium one to stick all the components in. I'll post another pic once the project is over.
BTW I've searched high and low for aluminium pulleys and can't find them anywhere for this thing and had to live with this crappy plastic set. If anyone's got any links to where you can find small ones for this project I'd be extremely happy. A lathe's too expensive to buy just to machine two pulleys.
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