Magnets in the U.K.

[Sock Puppet]

Here you go:

http://www.guysmagnets.com/index.php?cPath=26

Alnico 5 = Alcomax 3.

Cheaper than chips.

S.

[corduroyew]

looks too good to be true. Have you actually ordered magnets from them?

[Sock Puppet]

Yes, three times in about two years.

Good customer service & a couple of days delivery time - those 19 x 5mm magnets have been in their bargain basement each time.

S.

[Spence]

Those magnets are in the bargain basement because they are sintered rather than cast I suspect. Their A5 to A8 are cast.
Still, interesting.

[pun15her]

humbucker magnet

could one of these be used for a humbucker pickup?

http://www.guysmagnets.com/product_i...products_id=48

[jonson]

Bought a couple of hundred ceramics off Guy a few weeks ago and a good man to deal with. He got them out prompt but the carrier was a dead loss took a week to deliver an overnighter as it sat in their dopot all that time but t'was not Guys fault. Bought a couple of his big 54 x50mm neos at just over a fiver each with enough power to magnetise anything, absolute monsters. Don't know why but postal charges to Mr Stephen G Smith has cropped up on his site, but I have paid them but if anyone wants to buy them so I get my money back then please go ahead. He has now put the mags I want into production to save me cutting them down so well worth a call to talk to the man.

[Darren Orr]

Hey, those magnets being scintered rather than cast, Whats the actual difference?
would that matter for winding bass pickups?

(you may gather that currently i have no idea at all about magnets.....)

[pun15her]

Sintered AlNiCo has tighter dimensional tolerances due to its processing. It also has slightly lower magnetic properties, but better mechanical strength than Cast AlNiCo