AJs TL-1

[AJ]

Ty for that info Lawry, I actually bit the bullet today and found that 1. I need to modify my winder counter as the pups were magnetized and that triggered double counting, and 2. talc on the pinkies makes it a semi breeze to not hold the wire to tight as it will break quicker than the tax man can rip your money off of you..lol

Got a little bit done today with the Telecaster build, on the electronics side of things. A while ago I built a coil winder for the purpose of winding guitar pickup to my own flavor.
So today was my first attempt at winding pickups from kits I purchased, sorta a mixed result, but think I will get the hang of it soon enough. Also need to modify the counter sender unit in the winder as it was double counting as the extra magnets in the pups actually triggered the counter.
Overall I was reasonably satisfied with my first attempt.
DC resistance for the neck came out at 6k, and for the bridge it came out close to what I was after at 7.8k
Just need to pot these in wax now to finish them off, maybe do that tomorrow.

[AJ]

And some more pickies of them
I used woolen yarn as the wrap-around protection for the bridge pup and stewmac tape for the neck one.

[gavinturner]

Looks like a job well done AJ. Very interested so see how they sound!

cheers,
Gavin.

[lawry]

That's excellent AJ. Love your setup! I too am very interested to hear how they sound. Well done.

[wokkaboy]

yes well done AJ, I'm very interested how your own wired pickups sound. If they sound good I'd be keen to buy a set of 3 singles for a strat if you are making enough to sell !

[AJ]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from wokkaboy on November 14, 2013, 15:01
yes well done AJ, I'm very interested how your own wired pickups sound. If they sound good I'd be keen to buy a set of 3 singles for a strat if you are making enough to sell !

I need to get the winder to read the correct turns with magnetized pic ups mounted to it first, so then I can keep records of builds etc, then I'd be more than happy to help out you guys here with custom winds etc.
It reads correctly when doing non-magnetized pups. My thoughts are to go away from the read sensor to may be a photo interrupter type of counting trigger. I need some help there in understanding the way to work out the resistance etc as the meter is a no voltage read circuit and would need the interrupter to just open and close a a set of contacts to generate the pulses in the meter. Maybe lawry may be able to guide me in that area?

I decided not to tart up the Tl body with gilding so I just finished off wet sanding it to 3k and a quick hand buff with some polish.

Quick question to the wood tone guru's... can it be wet sanded to 3k? and then polished with automotive polish?

the body came up reasonable.. quite a lot of reflections are showing in the pickies

[lawry]

Wow AJ, the shine on that axe is intense. As for an opto circuit, I'm happy to draw one for you and post it for all. Can you tell me what your counter input needs for triggering?

[pablopepper]

Damn AJ, nice work. Perfect piano black.

[AJ]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from lawry on November 15, 2013, 16:34
Wow AJ, the shine on that axe is intense. As for an opto circuit, I'm happy to draw one for you and post it for all. Can you tell me what your counter input needs for triggering?

I'm thinking of using the Jay car one http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=ZD1901 and the JDm11-5h accumulative counter is a no voltage counter, so all that is needed is to close the circuit between pins 1 and 2 of the meter to get it to count. At the moment I have a reed switch connected to pins 1 and 2 of the meter that is "NO" till activated by the magnet on the back of the rotating arm of the winder .

[WeirdBits]

Have you tried just extending the bobbin mount board out another couple of cm's, like with a spacer and another board? Perhaps that would be enough to stop the slug magnets from triggering the reed switch.