I ve experimented with winding a few pickups by hand and want a darker looking wire for my coil. What can I do to make the coil look darker?
Here s another little trick I ve used that works pretty well. I use a new large black felt tip Magic Marker and while winding pass the lighter colored insulation magnet wire over the felt tip. I keep the marker above the magnet wire as the coil is winding. This actually does two things, which can be helpful. It will make the magnet wire darker and also while drying bonds to the previous turn. This helps with reducing microphonic feedback and makes the coil much firmer. I wear little disposable plastic gloves while holding the felt marker as it can make a mess unless you are very careful. I can guide the magnet wire between the felt tip and index finger as the coil is being wound. You can hold the marker over the wire just before it winds onto the coil and this is best done using automatic traverse controls that guides the magnet wire back and forth on the bobbin. This is called winding pitch or rate the wire travels back and forth along with winding speed. The pitch similar to the thre
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