Steps for HOWTO Make a CNC pickup winder
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Step 1: Winding mechanism
Transferring wire from the reel to the bobbins requires the coordination of rotational and translational motions, The layer winding movements are performed through either coil rotation (spindle winding) or wire rotation (fly winding).
Spindle winding
In spindle winding, the bobbin is rotated as the wire passes over or through a wire guide that traverses back and forth in the direction of the axis of rotation.
Fly-winding
In a fly winding machine the pickup bobbin remains stationary while a rotating flyer carries the wire around the coil. This design is unusual for guitar pickup machines (although there have been fly-winding pickup machines see this example). The mechanics of fly winding machines are more complex than spindle winding
For most applications, both fly or spindle winding produce coils of equal quality. Spindle winding lends itself to coils sensitive to twisting the material or coils of extremely large size or numbers of turns. Fly winding lends itself to coils where there is a lot of work that needs to be done on the unfinished coil before it can be released from the machine.
For reasons of mechanical simplicity the current project will use a spindle winding mechanism.
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