Post pictures of your working wick and coil setup

[Justadude]

Was screwing around with razorbacks yesterday. Didn't finish wrapping it though cause I learned some quite valuable things.
It's a razor square razor square razor

Also, did this for kicks just to see how big it was gonna turn out. It's a .3mm ribbon Mohawk alien

It looks cool but I scrapped it cause I can't make up my mind if I actually want build it and what concept should I incorporate into it. Also I forgot to double stitch it whatevs lol

It would be double stitched for sure, I'm just thinking what and how I would lay it out. waiting on my KP wire to come. God I hate waiting for vape mail especially when I have a build already in my mind but no wire to play with

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

Ive only cropped these photos, natural colour, no edits or light box with fancy coloured lights lol

 

[badinfluence357]

What size to ribbon is that dude? Never seen ribbon that thick, only some manually flattened 22g and its a pita to work with....

 

[LilWhiteClouder]

Horrible pics, great coil!! 2x spaced claptons (26/31 Ka1) fused with .8mm Ka1 Ribbon - 2.4mm ID, resistance @.13. I just need to perfect the spacing and fusing before attempting with higher gauges.

 

[Justadude]

What size to ribbon is that dude? Never seen ribbon that thick, only some manually flattened 22g and its a pita to work with....

It's 0.3mm lol, it looks cool but it's pretty massive. Plus a lot of ribbon goes into that coil. Hence why I'm debating if I actually want to do that. I have better uses for ribbon at the time lol

A buddy of mine said it's more like a razor back Mohawk. Yeah I suppose

 

[Justadude]

Decided to do something different tonight for a change while I'm waiting for my ribbon to come. I'm pretty sure this hasn't been done yet. Just experimenting cause I'm like out of ideas.

Interlocking quad stitched mohawk alien

 

[RedheadedBStarD]

Ive only cropped these photos, natural colour, no edits or light box with fancy coloured lights lolView attachment 594697View attachment 594699View attachment 594701

People are using colored lighting?

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

People are using colored lighting?

I don't know what was going through my mind when i wrote that but yeah its possible with different colour LED's, i think i saw some pics on IG

 

[Justadude]

people over saturate the colors. I've done that long time ago but it looks better if it's natural. Light box is good for isolating the object however I don't have the option to have color LEDs nor would I ever want any.

 

[badinfluence357]

It's 0.3mm lol, it looks cool but it's pretty massive. Plus a lot of ribbon goes into that coil. Hence why I'm debating if I actually want to do that. I have better uses for ribbon at the time lol

A buddy of mine said it's more like a razor back Mohawk. Yeah I suppose

.3mm x what? I suppose .1mm is to thin, as I've used .5mm x .1mm, and .8mm x .1mm and both are thin. Is it .3mm x .2mm or .5mm x .2mm? I'm referring to size in thickness not width.

 

[Justadude]

.3mm x what? I suppose .1mm is to thin, as I've used .5mm x .1mm, and .8mm x .1mm and both are thin. Is it .3mm x .2mm or .5mm x .2mm? I'm referring to size in thickness not width.

It's .3mm x .1mm dude

So I decided to have another go at this interlocking alien business. First part is done. It's an interlocking double stitched Mohawk alien. Gauges - 3x28 core, 2x38 interlocks, 2x44 stitches

 

[whiteowl84]

.3mm x what? I suppose .1mm is to thin, as I've used .5mm x .1mm, and .8mm x .1mm and both are thin. Is it .3mm x .2mm or .5mm x .2mm? I'm referring to size in thickness not width.

0.3x0.1 it looks.
Are they framed? They look like it but I'm not 100%.
And no glow shot? C'mon man!
Nice looking coil. Care to share the core sizes?

It's .3mm x .1mm dude


So I decided to have another go at this interlocking alien business. First part is done. It's an interlocking double stitched Mohawk alien. Gauges - 3x28 core, 2x38 interlocks, 2x44 stitches

Looks awesome. I'm still waiting on wire...
I have 100' of gauges 22 through 40 and 0.3 x 0.1mm. 1100' in total for about $36 shipped. All Kanthal so I can do dual coils.
I'm getting impatient here.

 

[Justadude]

Glow shot of the ribbon Mohawk? No. Not enough for a serious coil. Plus I was just screwing around with it. Not serious. Just wanted to see how that would look. I don't mount coils unless I'm actually going for it. I plan for days sometimes on the next build.

I experiment a lot guys. I'm sure you can tell by now. Anyway, cut the living sh. T out of my finger today. But FINALLY got this. The regular interlocking double stitch alien wasnt easy because the cores didn't want to stay parallel.

This is a different thing than normal aliens. Interlocks let alone stitched . Anyway here's some pics to start. Gonna install it and take more proper pictures later.

 

[whiteowl84]

I was actually referring to slippy's coil for the glow shot...he did fire it after all. =)
You do have some sick wire-smithing going on though.

 

[Justadude]

I was actually referring to slippy's coil for the glow shot...he did fire it after all. =)
You do have some sick wire-smithing going on though.

Me? Nah. I don't think so. But thank you kind sir

 

[Justadude]

Some prefire shots

 

[whiteowl84]

I'm not one for Mohawks but you pulled this one off really well. Complex without looking out of order.
Nice.

 

[Justadude]

Thank you. First time ever doing interlocks. It was definitely a good learning experience for future. I went through several tries and good amount of wire before I got the Mohawk and even more wire and time with regular flat interlocks. But I'm persistent and wouldn't settle for anything I wasn't happy with. I suppose it paid off in the end.

 

[Justadude]

Few more prefire shots

 

[jj6404]

Hey guys I finally got into the swivel game for claptoning and my wire keeps f'ing twisting up on me. It's really pissing me off. I've tried 3-6 swivels hooked together and it still twists it all up. Any tips?

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