New Book: Build Your Own Pickup Winder

[David King]

My counter is a "Preset" counter made by Durant, model 1800 from about 1986. They probably cost $250 new but I see them all the time on ebay for $10-20

Does the sewing machine motor bog down under load? Well yes but it's designed to handle way more load and torque than it will ever see winding a pickup -unless you are winding 12AWG or something.

[rplovanich]

Not as cheap or sophisticated

David King is so right. You can build a winder for what the manual costs. And the machine depicted in the manual is very elementary compared to the machine described in JGundry's post. I think what I tried to accomplish in putting this manual together is to give someone with limited mechanical skills some direction in building a really simple winder. It's very similiar to many winders seen on some of the forum's. Anyone could certainly build the same (or better) winder with information gathered on the internet. This manual just makes it easier.