Pickup Wind Designer program ...what would you like to see included ?

[Lyrebird Steve]

you will find that all 10 don't sound exactly the same. You might agree as you wind more and do more A/B testing with a testbed guitar, YMMV.

I don't have the greatest set of ears that can hear minute differences between pickups, I've wound a number of pickups I consider to be the same ... I'm sure better ears could pick up differences

Beyond winding patterns (and tension if you are progrsamming for that) there are a few things that affect the wind that are out of the control of your software, these things will always introduce some uniqueness into each individual coil. Varying copper diameter througout a spool and varying insulation thickness through a spool, the room temperature (specially with 44) etc. .

Agree completely ... my goal is to try to get a coil wind design able to be reliably repetatively manufactured without resorting to parallel layered winding patterns.

most (experienced) winders know that winding pattern isn't the "big deal" some folks tend to hype.

... I'll probably figure this out at the end of this project

[big_teee]

You can't find heavy formvar? Or you mean it was over sized? Try 41 then.

I have 41SPN, 2 different 42HPN, and a smaller 42HFV, and 43HFV.
All is acceptable, but IMO none was like the roll of large Essex .00295 42 HFV I ran out of.
It made great strat neck and middle pickups. I used the smaller for the bridge.

[David Schwab]

Maybe it was triple build.

[rhgwynn]

This would be a GREAT function to have, try to follow my train-of-thought here:

Ok, start with, whatever the wind program may be; have it display to the side, what the coil shape would be (if you were looking at the end of it from the side). You know, so you could see if it would be pretty flat and even; or if it would be rounded and bellied out in the middle; or hourglass shaped; or the sloped PAF shape, etc.

Once you have that, then comes the good stuff.

That display of shape would also have maybe 5-7 plot points that can be clicked and dragged up or down (the others would automatically follow a bit to adhere to what is actually possible, but can also be moved to fine tune the shape). That way, you could sort of, draw out the coil shape you want, and the computer would automatically compute the wind program for you to execute.

Mind. Blown.

Am I right??

Tell me this can be done...

-Rob

[Lyrebird Steve]

This would be a GREAT function to have, try to follow my train-of-thought here:

Ok, start with, whatever the wind program may be; have it display to the side, what the coil shape would be (if you were looking at the end of it from the side). You know, so you could see if it would be pretty flat and even; or if it would be rounded and bellied out in the middle; or hourglass shaped; or the sloped PAF shape, etc.

Once you have that, then comes the good stuff.

That display of shape would also have maybe 5-7 plot points that can be clicked and dragged up or down (the others would automatically follow a bit to adhere to what is actually possible, but can also be moved to fine tune the shape). That way, you could sort of, draw out the coil shape you want, and the computer would automatically compute the wind program for you to execute.

Mind. Blown.

Am I right??

Tell me this can be done...

-Rob

Rob, see post #24 earlier

Flat = Flat
Convex = rounded and bellied out in the middle
Concave = Hourglass

I'm allowing for doing this already ... but I think a visual drag-drop type tool is possible

[copperheadroads]

Rob, see post #24 earlier

Flat = Flat
Convex = rounded and bellied out in the middle
Concave = Hourglass

I'm allowing for doing this already ... but I think a visual drag-drop type tool is possible

That would be an interesting option

[David Schwab]

I used to wind convex coils, but now I wind flat coils. I haven't noticed any real difference in tone.

[kayakerca]

Steve:

How's things progressing with the coding for your new CNC winder?

[Lyrebird Steve]

Work is nuts at the moment ... will find some time to post it all up soon.

Has the issue with attachements to posts been resolved fully ?? It's probably easiest to put it all up in a .PDF file

[kayakerca]

Work is nuts at the moment ... will find some time to post it all up soon.

Has the issue with attachements to posts been resolved fully ?? It's probably easiest to put it all up in a .PDF file

PDF file? How do you run a CNC winder with a pdf file. . .