Quote Originally Posted by Trevor Davies View Post
I love the fret sawing contraption - it looks great.

Also, shame about the pup wire breaking! I had not given it much thought- but more than 1 km of wire! Wow.
Thanx

Yeh, enamelled copper wire specs resistance per km. 42 AWG specs out at about 5.8k/km... which is about the spec for the original '51 pups. Modern replacements are about 6k for the cheap Chinese ones and 7k for some of the others. In my case I have made the first spindle. it's a bit wider than the original and because the pole pieces are closer a bit closer together. Should hold bout the same as the original. I'm just going to stuff as much on as it will hold and do the same number of turns for the second one.

The motor and speed controller for the winder have arrived, the counter is in the country, as is the 3.5km of wire. Should have the winder made some time in the next two weeks. Hehe any bets on how many winds I mange to get before I put too much tension on the wire or wind too fast and snap the wire?