Alnico mags for Musicman-style pickups

[Lycking]

Hey there
I'm trying to source some alnico rods for musicman-style pickups, but it's kinda hard to find anyone who supply such fat poles ( searching for 9-11 mm).
If one of you guys know a place that can supply those, please give me a heads up :-) (in US or EU - doesn't matter much)

Thanks in advance!

[big_teee]

Look on the PDF listed below.
All the contact info is on the PDF.
http://music-electronics-forum.com/a...price-list.pdf
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[Steve A.]

Look on the PDF listed below.
All the contact info is on the PDF.
http://music-electronics-forum.com/a...price-list.pdf
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The PDF doesn't specify inches or millimeters but my guess is that they are humbucker bar magnets.

Steve Ahola

[Marko Ursin]

SP-Elektroniikan ja OL -Fishingin verkkokauppa - ALNICO 5 -magneetit Music Man style
In Finland this is the best place to buy pickup parts.

[big_teee]

The PDF doesn't specify inches or millimeters but my guess is that they are humbucker bar magnets.

Steve Ahola

It is all in inches decimal.
The first portion of the pdf is bar magnets, the last part is rod magnets.
The .375" x .750" or 3/8 x 3/4 A5s could be used.
0.375Ø X 0.750, $1.05 each.
They get cheaper by quanity.

[Lycking]

Thanks for the links lads.
4 euros per magnet seems a little harshly priced for me as i'm having a bunch of stuff sent from US anyways in one package - so i guess i'll take the sour apple and pay the toll and taxes on those aswell. Anyways, thanks again both of ya! I'll try to order from magnetic hold.

Completely different, but instead of spamming new threads with dumb questions i'll fire it off here:
Will a strat cover fit in a jaguar pickguard? I'm ordering a bunch of JM and jag stuff from Mojo - and i was wondering (since they have the 52mm ones made to fit strat covers), if the covers fit in the pickguard itself. Mainly wanting to sell them in strat covers since they only cost me 1/20th of the jag covers O_O

[Lollar Jason]

as of a couple weeks ago rob parr at allstar has a stash maybe 50 pieces left of those .375 X .625 Allstar Magnetics - A Worldwide Distributor of Inductive Components and Permanent Magnets Hes not going to want to sell just a few - I wouldnt call him for less than 50 pieces and even that is a small amount for that company but I know he has or had some on the shelve so they would be more willing to do a small order like that. Once those are gone youll have to have them made which they do all the time but its not really worth doing in qty less than 500- pricing gets alot better per piece the more you have made.
The reason I use .625 long is thats what the original music mans I have use- I dont know if allstar has other lengths- they typically only get in what someone orders made but occasionally they will have some leftovers.

[Lycking]

as of a couple weeks ago rob parr at allstar has a stash maybe 50 pieces left of those .375 X .625 Allstar Magnetics - A Worldwide Distributor of Inductive Components and Permanent Magnets Hes not going to want to sell just a few - I wouldnt call him for less than 50 pieces and even that is a small amount for that company but I know he has or had some on the shelve so they would be more willing to do a small order like that. Once those are gone youll have to have them made which they do all the time but its not really worth doing in qty less than 500- pricing gets alot better per piece the more you have made.
The reason I use .625 long is thats what the original music mans I have use- I dont know if allstar has other lengths- they typically only get in what someone orders made but occasionally they will have some leftovers.

I'll try him aswell, thanks for the heads up Jason. I'm looking at roughly 80-100 pcs. I get my usual rods and bar mags in batches of 1000-1200 rods of different Alnicos and 50-100 of different bars. But the market for Bass pickups here in Denmark is apparently not very big - barely sold a handfull of J and P bass pickups last year.. But a builder i cooperate with as supplier wants to make MM-style p'ups the "signature sound" of their basses. So i'll have to supply those aswell now :-)

[Lollar Jason]

well there you go- you can get enough to do several prototypes and then make an order- he might have some different lengths in stock- I dont know. 10 years ago there were places that stocked various sizes of rods but not so much anymore!

[Jim Shine]

The 70's Sting Ray guitars and basses had two different heights. Before fall '77ish they were tall. The factory would route two long ovals in the floors of the pickup routes for the magnets. The short style came in later in '77, the route floors were now flat, then the Sabre guitars and basses came out after short magnets, so they are all short.

[big_teee]

Routing a deeper hole is an easy fix to all the short magnet problems.
Shea at Magnetic hold will order and stock, any length of magnet if there is a constant demand for them.
The forum group might get him to stock a 3/8 x 5/8 A5? Is that short enough?
T

[Lollar Jason]

I believe .625 is the short version

[David Schwab]

Here's how the old Musicman basses were done.

[Jim Shine]

I believe .625 is the short version

Right. The tall ones are closer to an inch I believe. I have hard numbers, just too lazy to dig..