+1 for using a drill with a Turbotune winder. It's like being a pit crew at the Indy 499 (taxes ya know....
) and as Dave said zip, zam and those puppies are loose and ready to be pulled.I'm using my 10 year old original Festool drill after I took it apart and could not get it back together and handed Dave a bag of parts to repurpose with his research and found my completely reassembled AND working Festool drill on my bench the next day! I was very glad to get it back.
Use a drill with a stable flat bottom to avoid the tendency that some drills have to fall over....
What makes using a drill not only WAY faster but much more efficient in my view is that for some instruments how we may wind the strings can actually play into the instrument being better set-up. Strats for example that lack a second string tree with the classic G string break angle over the nut is too shallow causing the vibrating wave to breach the face of the nut resulting in intonation issues with a drill I can use the entire string making my winds go right to the peg head face creating a better break angle. If I had to watch myself using a manual winder this would be more difficult and time consuming.
Dave does and can tune with a drill. I tune manually not trusting myself.... I fully expect to come into the shop one day and find my Festool modified and now fully integrated to a Peterson Strobe Tuner where the integration includes a now auto-clutch that slips when the tuner says the string is tuned to pitch.... Next he will likely set the things to tune two steps up, stretch the string and then relax it to proper pitch....
Nothing seems to be impossible in our world I'm telling ya....
