How to handwind a pickup without the wire breaking?

[Zhangliqun]

Re: How to handwind a pickup without the wire breaking?

Yes, what I was saying is that pulling less is no solution. If you do that you might be able to work the thin wire but if the resulting pickup is too loose you can't rescue it even if you are potting.

If he's breaking the wire, then pulling less hard is the ONLY solution.

[uOpt]

Re: How to handwind a pickup without the wire breaking?

If he's breaking the wire, then pulling less hard is the ONLY solution.

But he's breaking a wire that's thinner than he should use anyway.

[Zhangliqun]

Re: How to handwind a pickup without the wire breaking?

How do you know how thin the wire is?

[G0lden]

Re: How to handwind a pickup without the wire breaking?

I believe that Seymour wound his first pickup with a modified record player.