Gingery Coil Winder

[jmcglynn]

Has anyone here looked at the Gingery coil winder? There is a $10 book that (having seen other Gingery books) that I would expect to be very build-able and functional.

The book is available through Lindsey Pubs and probably on ebay too,

There is a video of one here (14mb):
http://www.bignick.net/temp/CoilWinder.wmv

[Joe Gwinn]

Has anyone here looked at the Gingery coil winder? There is a $10 book that (having seen other Gingery books) that I would expect to be very build-able and functional.

The book is available through Lindsey Pubs and probably on ebay too,

There is a video of one here (14mb):
http://www.bignick.net/temp/CoilWinder.wmv

It's for winding self-supporting RF coils, not pickups. But it seems to work OK.

[David Schwab]

There is a video of one here (14mb):
http://www.bignick.net/temp/CoilWinder.wmv

That's neat. I always wondered how they wound that pattern on those RF coils.

And the Raymond Scott soundtrack is fitting! From now one I'm going to play Powerhouse when I wind!

[Peter Naglitsch]

TPL slightly less than one...

[David Schwab]

TPL slightly less than one...

Yeah, they really go diagonal on those turns. Talk about scatter...

[jmcglynn]

Yeah, they really go diagonal on those turns. Talk about scatter...

LOL, I think that is all the shape of the cam and the ratio between the wind and the cam rotation, you should be able to lay in any kind of pattern. This has a friction drive so that you can vary the cam-to-wind ratio.

I thought it was neat because it had the basics of the mechanism worked out and would be a decent starting point. I'm really impressed with what some folks have done with CNC winders, but that is way overkill for me. I want to wind a few pickups and play with design params to get different tones. Seymour Duncan needs a CNC winder, not me

[David Schwab]

Seymour Duncan needs a CNC winder, not me

I don't think he uses one though.

I want one for repeatability. Though all my pickups of one model all sound alike, I'd rather load the winder and have it do its thing, than to guide the wire by hand.

Gets monotonous after a while.