As soon as I saw the look of that coil blown up in the pic, my conscience got the better of me, and I heard my Dad's voice in my head - "Only Lazymen would have scruffy coils like that, boy! You really wouldn't want to be a Lazyman would you?" so I re -did it.
It's now 0.7 ohms and tidier.
The only cotton we had in the house was the cotton balls my wife uses to take her make up off, so she gave me a couple - and guess what, using that gave me none of the off taste I normally get intitially when using the proper stuff.