plain enamel wire

[bryvincent]

here's a pic of a SD '59 screw coil and a slug coil. the two coils have obviously different colors. one thing i noticed is my antiquity humbuckers(neck & bridge, bothh 2005) have the darker wire like the screw coil on the 59 and my seth lover bridge(2004) has the lighter colored wire like on the slug coil on the 59. both are suppose to be PAF copies so why the different wire? which really is the plain enamel wire? the darker or lighter colored one? or both? on the SD website, the Seth Lover is described to have plain enamel wire while there's no mention of plain enamel wire on the antiquity. i also saw a pic of a real PAF coil wire on BOTB and it has the lighter-colored wire. did seymour changed the wire on the antiquities on 2005 onwards?

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: plain enamel wire

The darker is the PE wire. Don't know how to explain the lighter shade on the one coil, unless you bought it used and the original owner did a coil swap. Or, less likely, there was a mix-up at the factory.

 

[MattPete]

Re: plain enamel wire

Different batches of PE wire?

 

[bryvincent]

Re: plain enamel wire

The darker is the PE wire. Don't know how to explain the lighter shade on the one coil, unless you bought it used and the original owner did a coil swap. Or, less likely, there was a mix-up at the factory.

nope. i bought the 59 brand new.

 

[beerdrinkingtech]

Re: plain enamel wire

Different batches of PE wire?

This is correct, those are both PE, the indicator is the coils are the same size.

Fomvar magnet wire is more orange in color but is thicker, so if it was Fomvar then the coil itself would appear larger then the purplish one.

These are not would as pair's or sets, and so many of them can have a color mis-match,

Magnet wire makers colors do change with new batches, and so PE coating colors vairy often.

Regards’
BDT