Leesona Winder

Re: Leesona Winder

Ants, Seths, 59s, PGs, and if I remember correctly the A2Ps and Jazzes are sometimes.
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Just try the search function. There is a thread where Frank Falbo answers this question, but Luke Duke about is right but forgot the Ant Buckers.
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Do the Leesona winders do something different than other winders? I mean, do they like wind 2 wraps every so often but only count one? Or count two when they only did one wrap?

Is the synch between the feed and take-up spools off such that the coil wire stretches just a hair?
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Does anyone know if this is the same Leesona from the Kalamazoo factory? I'm curious as another company makes the fact that their Leesona came out of the Kalamazoo factory as a big selling point.
Thank you all with your knowledge, it's fun to read these posts.
 
Re: Leesona Winder

I believe the Leesona 102 Seymour has ,Came from the gibson factory as well as the leesona Jon from Throbak has
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Throbak, per their own site, uses a different type of winder that, I think, isn't actually a leesona. That machine SD has is ancient!
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Here's a couple of pics I took of it a few years ago at the first User Group Day.

Leesona.jpg

Leesona2.jpg
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Ok, the brooms and the chair are crowding the fire extinguisher, as is the copier the brooms are leaning against.

And I'm still not clear on the reasoning behind the inquiries into the machine.
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Inquiries into the machine? Since I started the thread, the answer is no reason really. Throbacks have one of the machines from the original K-zoo facility and I remember reading SD had another. So I was curious as to which pickups were wound on that old machine.

I used to live near there when it was Gibson and was curious - that's all.

Oh, and now this gets my post count up to lik 26 or 27.
 
Re: Leesona Winder

I like the empty chair next to the Leesona winder. It makes you wonder how many tutorials have been given there.

As for your answer, I asked this question several years ago, and here was Evan Skopp's answer.

Antiquitys
Seths
'59s
Pearly Gates
Alnico Pro Humbuckers
Vintage P-90s
Some custom shop pickups
 
Last edited:
Re: Leesona Winder

Although SD has stated that humbuckers shoud not be scatterwound, according to Throback's site 'coils wound on these vintage machines show a complex wire scatter driven by the quirks unique to these machines. They do not show the orderly distribution of wire exhibited by modern computer controlled winders.'
 
Re: Leesona Winder

Jon's Leesona 102 is not from Kalamazoo. He has another, different winder from Kalamazoo that he assumes would have been used for something.
 
Back
Top