alnico treatments....

[mkat]

yeah you gotta heat it to 1000 degrees farenheit, they will lose their magnetic charge and will need to be recharged afterwards, let me know how it goes....

The kiln isn't up and running yet, but I'll definitely post some info when I get time after it's ready.

[David Schwab]

For Alnico the Curie Point is around 1,472° F or 800° C. Freakin' hot! Alnico has one of the highest Curie Points.

[Possum]

wow...

that IS high, most kilns won't hit that high, I think my casting kiln would go to 1200 degrees, 1500 is scary hot....

[mkat]

Yep, that's a high temperature. The kiln I'll be using can go up to 1000° C, so no problem there.

[Zhangliqun]

So let's say you had a fully charged magnet, but it was a little bright. Push North and North together to take away some of that charge, and it should mellow out a little?

Basically, yes. I prefer to use a stronger magnet against the magnet I'm degaussing, typically an A8 on an A5.

[mkat]

deguassing

But does it actually warm up the sound or just reduce the output?

[Possum]

depends....

It depends on what pickup you're doing it to, on humbuckers it does warm up the sound, on a heavy formvar strat bridge pickup it does nothing discernible to my ears. The benefit of doing it on a strat is to reduce stratitis and get a little more sustain as a result.

[mkat]

It depends on what pickup you're doing it to, on humbuckers it does warm up the sound, on a heavy formvar strat bridge pickup it does nothing discernible to my ears. The benefit of doing it on a strat is to reduce stratitis and get a little more sustain as a result.

Yes, I needed to do that on a strat set a while ago and did based on your suggestion back then.

So, one issue is the harshness of the bridge pickup in a strat set. I mostly wind bass pickups: single coils, dual coil humbuckers. So, whether there is a great benefit to warrant a warmer sound there I don't know yet, still testing.