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    Query about Squier pickups

    At a musicians swap meet the other day, a buddy gave me a set of Squier Strat pickups which had been sitting with exposed coils at the bottom of a box full of crap for a while. I took them home and was pleased to find that two were in full working order, and the third had an easily redeemable tear that only amounted to forfeiture of about 200-300 turns.

    The pickups have two ceramic bar magnets epoxied to the sides of the staggered polepieces, P90 style (i.e., same magnetic pole facing inward/outward).

    So my question is: Assuming I can detach the magnets nondestructively, is there any advantage to securing ONE of them below the polepieces, rather than having the both? I'm not particularly desirous of having hot pickups.
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    Try them out first. Those sound pretty good. The ones with the single magnet on the bottom don't.
    Those two magnets wont be any hotter than 6 alnicos.
    It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein


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    • #3
      Funny you shuld say that. I have kent Armstrong Strat PU with a ceramic bar magnet on the bottom that I have not installed in anything yet, so I don't know what it sounds like. I suppose that would be an excellent way to listen to the difference between those two approaches.

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      • #4
        I agree with David
        The single coil pickups with the 2 small magnets are some of the better sounding ceramic pickups that i have heard
        "UP here in the Canada we shoot things we don't understand"

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Mark Hammer View Post
          Funny you shuld say that. I have kent Armstrong Strat PU with a ceramic bar magnet on the bottom that I have not installed in anything yet, so I don't know what it sounds like. I suppose that would be an excellent way to listen to the difference between those two approaches.
          The problem with the Squier pickups with the single magnet was because the magnet was weak.
          It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein


          http://coneyislandguitars.com
          www.soundcloud.com/davidravenmoon

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          • #6
            Just came from a gig on which I played a strat-kindof-thing with 2 old ESP big-iron-slug w/really-big ceramic magnet on the bottom pickups in the neck & center positions.

            I was reminded that these are still some of my absolutely favorite Strat-type pickups ever made.

            Bob Palmieri

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