Another crazy contraption emerges from the Secret Underground Lab: A custom string winding lathe. Yep, it's a special machine made for making guitar strings.

No, I'm not planning on getting into making my own strings.....This was a commission job. There's a small custom string winding company here in Los Angeles. They mostly make strings for the various Latin instruments, but they do some specialty guitar strings. All custom, hand wound, using specialized electric lathes. Hand wound means...

A String Winding Lathe