Bobbin Material - Tell me more...

[GoldenVulture]

Woodn't wood give it a more organic sound. Maybe we can sell it to Duhrex that way. Different resonant peaks with different woods, no grounding or shorting issues. No capacitance or induction anomalies and graph it all up. Innovation and improvement, this should appeal to duhrex.

Wood is a different issue because it's got to be plasticized anyway. So it's impregnated with some kind of resin. If not it would chip and shear. But also if not it would have really terrible expansion/contraction rates and the pores could cut the wires if they expanded/lifted with moisture. So the result of a stabilized wood bobbin is probably similar to a plastic material.

Thank you for such a detailed response Frank. I was really just jestingly considering a pile of crap to tell to Duhrex. It seems this type of bobbin just wood not do. No organic tones from this. Maybe I could forget all that expansion and stuff and suggest it to him anyway.:toast: