S32E6 · Guitar Pickups, Heated Furniture, Water Well Cylinders, Nonconductive Tools

Guitar Pickups, Heated Furniture, Water Well Cylinders, Nonconductive Tools

S32E6 · 2019-03-03 · 21 min

Thousands of turns of fine copper wire are wound around a bobbin, combined with magnets and sealed to produce a guitar pickup. Heating cables are embedded in cast concrete furniture, brass tubes and valves are assembled into water-well cylinders, and resin-coated glass fibres are drawn into insulated handles that are fitted with tool heads and tested against high voltage.

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