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Guitar Pickup Mini Coil Winders back in stock

Well the good news is that we have just finished assembling the next batch of Guitar Pickup Mini Coil Winders .

Even though the British Pound is still weak against the Dollar and Euro, we have kept the price of the machine the same for now, but this may have to change in the future.

So if you wish to order then please follow the link below.

https://ukcnc.net/index.php?route=product/product&path=62&product_id=53

We will be starting on the 200mm Coil Winders next as planned.

Update on Coil Winders

Quick update on the Coil Winding Machine progress, as we have been getting a lot of emails.

The Guitar Pickup Mini Coil Winders are now being assembled and we expect to have them available within the next 2 weeks.
We will post a notice here in the news section of the site when back in stock, as well as send out a newsletter and of course send out an email to all the people that have emailed us and requested to be put on the list.

As soon as we have finished the Guitar Pickup Mini Coil Winders, we will be starting on assembling the next batch of the 200mm Coil Winders and again we will be sending out an email to anyone that has asked to be informed when back in stock.

Sorry for being out of stock on both these items for a while now, but as explained in other posts, we have been tied up on other projects.

We are pushing as hard as we can to get these back in stock and should beat the lead times we set in the previous post 🙂

Pulse Train Hat for the Raspberry PI launched.

Today we have launched a new product, Pulse Train Hat for the Raspberry PI

As there is so much information to go with the PTHAT, we have setup a dedicated website over at http://www.pthat.com

We hope this will be of some interest in people wanting to control their own motors.

Guitar Pickup Manual Coil Winder now available and other updates

We have been meaning to update our website for the last few weeks, but being so busy it got delayed, but now are pleased to announce that the new Guitar Pickup Manual Coil Winder is now available.

Please check out the link below for more details and videos.

http://www.ukcnc.net/index.php/products/manual-coil-winder/

Other Updates

Because of other custom machine build projects and new products we have been developing, stock has been running low on most of our batch machines that we tend to make up in quantities of 25 at a time.
This is because we do actually assemble and fully test each machine ourselves, which takes time and resource. We are not a mass producer and target niche markets to try our best to bring a low cost solution of a machine to people.

We do get emails from people complaining a little when they have to wait for a machine, but all we can say is please be patient with us and we will add you to the email list and also keep you informed of when the machines are back in stock.

We will always be as transparent with you and as a bit of an update, at the moment the following lead times are expected before we will be able to supply the following:

Guitar Pickup Mini Coil Winders: OUT OF STOCK – 6-8 weeks lead time.

200mm Coil Winders: OUT OF STOCK – 12-14 weeks lead time.

CNC Mini Muscle Machines: IN STOCK but getting low.

Manual Coil Winders: IN STOCK and now available.

CNC 800mm x 800mm CNC machine– No ETA at the moment, sorry 🙁

Custom Machine builds: 8-12 month lead time before we can look at any new designs.

Machining Services: As usual we always find time to pop a few sheets of Plywood on the machine during the day and we tend to update our facebook page with these jobs rather than our main website, please feel free to check it out at https://www.facebook.com/CNCDESIGNLTD/

Some people will be screaming expand the company and get more resource, but that is something we have had chance to do in the past and declined. We are happy making small machines for niche markets and also enjoy having the time to spend time on the phone talking to customers and helping them out or delaing with it on email. We still try to bring a personal touch to our company and we feel that can get lost when some companies grow to fast.

So for the moment we are keeping it small and focusing on quality products as time allows, no point running a business if you don’t look forward to coming into work each day and having a play !

Also we have another new product that we have been working really hard on and we will be releasing in the next few weeks. We are more than sure that this will be of great interest to people who visit our site and are interested in controlling motors in an easy way for their own designs.

This new product will have a dedicated support website, which is 90% complete with full details, videos and examples to help people out.
Stock of the new product has already arrived and ready for despatch on launch.

More on that in the next few weeks.

March 2017 update

A bit of a long time since our last update!

2017 has been a bit crazy for us as we have been working flat out on getting a new SECRET! product finished for launch.
It has been in the making for the last year and we have spent the last few months finishing off the prototyping and heads buried in coding of the firmware and example software source code to be released.
The new product will have it’s own dedicated support site which will go live very soon.

More information on this product when it is due to be released.

Some more updates on the following:

CNC 800mm X 800mm machine.

Due to other projects getting in the way, the launch of the CNC 800mm x 800mm machine kit is still delayed.
We have had a huge interest in this machine and can only apologise for not getting it to market yet.
Being a small company with limited budget and limited resource, we have to juggle the projects and products to match what we can cope with at the time.
We spent a lot of money and time getting from prototype to finished product and right and are more than keen to recuperate some costs and get it to you guys, so please bear with us.

200mm Coil Winders.

Unusual I know for us to let this popular model run out of stock for so long, but again because we make all our machines here in our small workshop and there is only two of us full time, we have just not had time to make up the next batch.
We do have a email list with people waiting and we will be cracking on with making up the next batch as soon as we finish launching the new SECRET product !

Manual Guitar Pickup Coil Winder.

We designed a Manual Guitar Pickup Coil Winder at the end of last year and instead of selling it ourselves, we have branded it under the Crimson Guitars label and they have sole distribution on it. We have been meaning to update our web pages with the full information, but it is actually now on sale and can be found on their website. We will update our site as soon as we can.
https://crimsonguitars.com/store/manual-coil-winder-kit/

So just a short update to let you know we are still around and more update soon.

Crimson Guitars release a new video review of a Manual Coil Winder

Crimson Guitars release a new video review of a Manual Coil Winder we designed and branded for them .

In answer to a few of their points raised in the video

CNC Mini Muscle Machines Back In Stock

At last !!!!

Sorry for the delay on getting the next batch of the CNC Mini Muscle Machines built, but they are now in stock.

Both 220v and 110v options are available.

Please check the product page for more information

http://www.ukcnc.net/index.php/products/mini-muscle-mk2-routing-machine/

Or the online shop for ordering details.

https://ukcnc.net/index.php?route=product/category&path=61

Coil Winder ARM Controller Software 3.1 released with Firmware 1.5

We have always stated that our software and firmware is always in development and the main reason is because the more Coil Winding Machines we sell, the more weirder and more wonderful applications people seem to use it for.
So as we get bug reports or feature requests to be added, we try to release a new version as soon as we can.

Recently we sold a machine to a customer who needed very accurate movements down to degree level, using the Scripting engine and off the back of this a few small bugs were found.
These bugs did not really effect the normal Automatic winding feature of the software and firmware, but when sending thousands of quick short commands, there was some tweaking that needed to doing.

The tweaking has ended up in a lot of time re-writing chunks of the firmware and software code and a lot of time sat in front of the machine with a scope and a lot of various combinations of commands being fired at the controller.
We also attached various Micrometer Dial Gauges around the machine and external pulse counters to check every mechanical movement was coming out the same as the scope the debug feedback information from the processor.

I have got to add a great thanks to Dan for really putting the machine through testing and the time he spent helping us out.

Also while tweaking the code to obtain small accurate movements, we have ended up with much cleaner and faster pulse trains, that now improves accuracy and repeatability over the full range of speeds and pitches.
The firmware now looks more closely at the frequency of each motor and taking into account the interpolation that is needed between both motors, alters the pulse train to suit that speed and adjust automatically where needed.

These changes now offer improved return to zero positioning and also resume from pause improvements and higher speeds.
All new machines and ARM controller upgrades will be going out with the new Software and Firmware as default and it is highly recommended that if you have a machine with the new ARM Controller that you upgrade.

As usual the new Software and Firmware can be downloaded from our downloads page.

http://www.ukcnc.net/index.php/downloads/

It has always been free to our customers and will remain so in the future.

Before you upgrade your firmware, please make sure you read the instructions in the forums.

Coil Winder Tensioners back in stock.

We now have all 3 sizes of the Coil Winder Magnetic Tensioners back in stock.

MTCS covering wire sizes 0.04mm—0.14mm 10g—120g
MTCM covering wire sizes 0.08mm—0.25mm 50g—400g
MTCLL covering wire sizes 0.14mm—0.40mm 100g—800g

These can be found on the online shop and also selected as a extra on the 200mm Coil Winder page.

https://ukcnc.net/index.php?route=product/category&path=60

Guitar Mini Coil Winder review by Crimson Guitars

We sent one of our Guitar Mini Coil Winders over to Ben at Crimson Guitars and thought we would share the unpacking video.

These guys are a UK based company that run a Custom Guitar Building Studio, they share their knowledge of building guitars and other projects via weekly videos and online site.

Well worth checking out their site at http://crimsonguitars.com

Here is the video below