Coil Master has a new clapton jig, the CM 314 Clapton Maker. Seems a bit odd to me. No videos that I can find on it actually making clapton wire yet.
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Saw that the other day, very interesting. Id probably buy it and use it once, not really a clapton fan, but the concept is pretty cool.
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I love claptons but will wait for some reviews and videos of this device before I put any $$ down.
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Seems a good idea but the length of clapton you’ll end up with seems short.
Enough for two coils perhaps?
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It goes thru the end, from the looks of it, itd autofeed itself as much as u have in. The second section appears to be stabalizing and tension. Wonder if tension is adjustable or not hmm
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Reminds me of a mini lathe.
In fact, a wood lathe at slow speed would be ideal for wrapping, I could imagine it would be super easy to make a rig to hold the outer wire and then just move the tool slowly to the right, should be super accurate too…
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I found this one and it seem to work really great.
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Read the thread i just invited you to. 
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It does look like a great device but i love the ones @Phill has provided me. The single and the duo.
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I like the design of @Phill stuff, if he can every get the logistics worked out. I have the Clapton Jig v2 but haven’t had much success using it. I just want a fast and easy way to make some SS clapton wire.
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Yeah, were just waiting on him to let us know.
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I saw that jig and instead of buying it, I just grabbed a few of those wood clamps. I can knock out a few feet in a couple minutes. Never worked with SS for claptoning, but for kanthal builds it makes it so much easier than by hand.
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Look at how wood lathes work… That is the principle, just do that with a drill and some kind of “feeder”
So tempted to pick this up in an Antique Mall in Penn last weekend… will wait to pick up at some Estate Sale for $25 …there was no visible price on this
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I was thinking about this the other day, you can get hobby lathes which are much smaller but I doubt you’d find one on one of your ‘hunts’ be interesting to see if this could work, I’d be tempted to try and incorporate a sewing machine foot pedal into the mix, I’ve been trying to find a way of doing that with a drill as I think a foot pedal would give you the best control over making claptons and leave both your hands free, but the only things I can find that use that are either a dentist drill or a beauticians nail …thingy…
… I have been given a dewalt cordless that I can rip apart and I have 2 sewing machine pedals so I may look into it this weekend.
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Just an idea I had…
Has anyone tried making a rig where it’s the outer wire spinning?
Clamp your inner and outer wire, create a disc (2-3inches in diameter) with a hole in the centre and thread your inner wire through it, have your outer wire run through a slot on the outside of the disc and spin the disc to wrap the wire?
I believe this principle is used in some yarn production.
You would probably need to make some kind of tension / small feeder unit on the side of the disc to keep the wire straight and get a tight wrap.
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I also have the CJ V2 and it works very well. It works even better if you fasten the tail of the core wire to a swivel, so you can put a little tension on the longer core wires.
Edit: I really like this new AvidArtisan Daedalus
Right on Clampless Clapton jig
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