Multiple Magnets in a Humbucker.

[David Schwab]

I strive for best in solar system but Best in Galaxy and Best in Universe are very very far away right now.

I strive for something I like. So far other people like them too, which is a bonus! But I don't try to please anyone but me. And I'm fussy.

[RCI Guitars]

I'm with Schwab...I strive for what I like and what my customers are looking for.
I find pickup making much like the culinary career I ran like hell from years ago...Ingredients and knowing what to do with them and how to manipulate them into a better meal.
I have only posted a few times on these forums and this is the second time that I feel I need to defend myself to another member...Jason, I did not criticize anyone!! I said the company has become popular...They sell humbuckers for twice the price of a standard Duncan or Dimarzio bucker. Good for them!! It is what we should all strive for!! All crafts people should be paid for their talent and hard work.

[big_teee]

I doctored a pickup with a second magnet.
I couldn't get the third one in that pickup because of the cable.
If I do three I will have to redo how I route the cable.
T

[copperheadroads]

I doctored a pickup with a second magnet.
I couldn't get the third one in that pickup because of the cable.
If I do three I will have to redo how I route the cable.
T

You need Spacers

[LtKojak]

You need Spacers

If you're making the three-magnet humbucker thing, the magnets are your spacers...

I don't think the three-magnet humbucker design is a good idea, specially if you're using AlNiCo mags, because of the inherent degaussing.

The P-90 design comes from an era magnets were weak, hence the need of using two to give the p'up some output, but with magnets like ceramic, A8 and A9, that need of magnetic power to give some reasonable signal is just not there anymore. Yet people is buying P-90s at this very moment because they have a "particular" sound that can't be recreated otherwise... or can it?

It may be very frustrating to p'up designers not being able to come with new ideas and new designs just because the market is fixated with old technology and old sound, even though there's nothing wrong with being old if it's good.

Is my conviction that your average guitar player will give just about any amount of cash on any new technology that allow him/her to sound just like the way he/she sounded before. The saying "The more things change, the more they stay the same" was cogitated with guitar players in mind, if you ask me.

[copperheadroads]

If you're making the three-magnet humbucker thing, the magnets are your spacers...

I don't think the three-magnet humbucker design is a good idea, specially if you're using AlNiCo mags, because of the inherent degaussing.



It may be very frustrating to p'up designers not being able to come with new ideas and new designs just because the market is fixated with old technology and old sound, even though there's nothing wrong with being old if it's good.

Is my conviction that your average guitar player will give just about any amount of cash on any new technology that allow him/her to sound just like the way he/she sounded before. The saying "The more things change, the more they stay the same" was cogitated with guitar players in mind, if you ask me.

With 1/8" thick magnets you don't have room to just add the spacer magnet on the side next to the wire .either Reroute the wire or use spacers to where your magnets sit on top them & over your wire on the screw side
I'm Doing some R & D on the small Alnico magnets

[jason lollar]

oh- sorry RCI, with second reading of your comment about BK now that you tell me you werent being critical I can see it differently than how I took it the first time- it could be taken either way. Usually when someone is mentioning high price its a critisism "Its incredible that they have gotten so popular, so quickly and the are considerable more expensive then most of the builders on the market."
my mistake

[Jim Shine]

Not multiple magnets, but I have rewound old Duncan Distortions with significantly thicker than usual ceramic magnets. So large there were multiple wooden spacers, one on the adjustable side on top of the wire and 2 stacked on top of each other on the slug side.