So I finally, FINALLY got my shit together long enough to give this coil building shit a try.
Went to Dicks and found some ball bearing swivels (got sizes 5 and 3, does size matter?), charged up the drill, clamped my old vice to a table and went at it. First just to see how wire acts while twisting I just twisted a couple pieces of 24 together, then doubled it over on itself and twisted it again to make a uber thick hive wire.
Then I tried my actual purpose for the whole thing, which was a fused clapton. I guess I just like to jump right in without really fucking around with all this beginners easy bullshit. But first thing I found, was that something was strange with either the swivel set up or the drill itself (more likely the swivels) because what would happen was every couple inches the wire would break off right at the drill chuck. Im guessing the swivels arent swiveling good enough (thats a word lol) and its creating tension at the point of contact with the drill and breaking. So opinions on that would be helpful and appreciated.
So after failing miserably with the vice/swivel set up, I just free handed it. Drill in one hand, cores and wrap wire in the other. I had my pointer and thumb in an "O" shape with the wrap wire pinched between them and the cores resting on the index finger. It worked ok. Obviously my first time ever wrapping a coil, it didnt turn out pretty...at all. But out of about a 2 foot section of wrapped wire Ive got about a foot and a half that is usable. When the wire doubled up on itself I just said fuck it and kept going, and after the first 6 inches I figured out how to keep it from doubling up. But since I didnt have swivels and had the cores resting on my finger, they got a little twisted from the friction of spinning on something, so its just a little twisted, but no biggie. And theres spots were it got a little spaced out because of reasons. But all in all, most of it is usable wire and Im definitely gonna use it at some point.
Doing this though definitely gave me new found respect for the skill and all the insane and crazy looking coils that get posted here. Once you try it yourself, you kind of realize how hard it is to get those wraps tight and perfectly spaced like get posted here all the time. Yall definitely got skills. But Ill get back at it, Im a little bit of a perfectionist, so Im either gonna A) Work at it until I get the shit right, or B) Throw the drill out the window and give up, or C) Burn down my apartment in anger and go on a shooting spree.
The FBI is probably watching me already, so please FBI guy, dont arrest me, that was a joke. Im not gonna go on a shooting spree. Not with a real gun at least.......JOKING
