Can i use rare earth magnets for charging alnico?

[big_teee]

A4s sound great in a bucker, the A5 he said sounded a lot stronger than a typical PAF, and he is right, because they were originally made with weaker gauss grades of alnico, which changed a lot over the years. A2 is another one that is very well favored, perhaps more so than A4, now that I think about it. But you are correct in thinking that maybe he could get the sound he wants from degaussing his A5 a little.

-Rob

You didn't answer my question.
Have you tried these, or are you being Hypothetical, or just guessing?
T

[cenizasblancas]

Aahhhh A4 the alnico 4... sorry did not understand, i only have alnico 5 and alnico 2.

Juan

[big_teee]

Aahhhh A4 the alnico 4... sorry did not understand, i only have alnico 5 and alnico 2.

Juan

A2 and A5, Magnets can be used for most applications.
Just use the A2s at full charge, for a more vintage sound.

[rhgwynn]

You didn't answer my question.
Have you tried these, or are you being Hypothetical, or just guessing?
T

The world may never know...

-Rob

[big_teee]

If you giving Advice to someone in Uruguay, Australia, Germany, or BumF__k, it would be nice for it to be Hands on advice.
Or you could start by saying, "I haven't tried this, but I read in a book, or I saw this on the Inet somewhere, Yada, Yada, Yada, Yay!

[rhgwynn]

If you giving Advice to someone in Uruguay, Australia, Germany, or BumF__k, it would be nice for it to be Hands on advice.
Or you could start by saying, "I haven't tried this, but I read in a book, or I saw this on the Inet somewhere, Yada, Yada, Yada, Yay!

Now why would I send a feller on a wild-goose chase, eh? I've got nothing better to do up here in BumF__k then to bamboozle around with pickups. I've really got to build a mule because I wear out too many sets of strings swapping things in and out of my player guitar.

-Rob

[big_teee]

OK!
BTW you can get Ernie Ball Slinkys at a discount from Mojo.
My string of choice. You may prefer something else!
T

[rhgwynn]

OK!
BTW you can get Ernie Ball Slinkys at a discount from Mojo.
My string of choice. You may prefer something else!
T

DR Pure Blues in Eb .... pure mojo. Try it out, really brings out the vibes and tubes just come to life.

-Rob

[big_teee]

Slinky 10s work for me, I like the tone, brightness, and I like the price.
I tear them up, with all the tuner twisting working on pickups.
Use whatever works for you.

[cenizasblancas]

I have changed the a5 to a2 and sound more vintage!!! but this pickups i thinks maybe is the cheapest of the market!!! i don´t know what metal stagg uses with this pickup....

[cenizasblancas]

i have another question... how can i degauss a ceramic 6 , 8 magnets?

[big_teee]

i have another question... how can i degauss a ceramic 6 , 8 magnets?

You can weaken them, but not totally discharge them with NEO Magnets.
Alnico magnets can be totally reverse polarized with Neos.
I havent been able to do that with Ceramics, just weaken or strengthen them.
T

[cenizasblancas]

Thanks Terry, i have ordered to Shea ceramic 8 and 6 of rectangular shape 0.5L x 0.230W(n,s) x 0.125L and 0.250L x 0.230W(n,s) x 0.125L for making blade pickups for strat and humbuckers, i´m going to put them like this:

imanes.jpg - DivShare

Instead of using polepieces i´m going to use blade... this is because i´m going to make a 7 and 6 string pickups for my future guitar build.

Juan

[mcgruff]

And on the A4s, Ron Have you tried them in a Humbucker?

The very first pickup I made was A4, double coated wire, 5,500 turns on the screw coil 5,300 slug (I think - lost count estimated by weighing), and probably quite loosely wound 'coz I was afraid of breaking the wire. Unpotted. It sounds really nice in my dot and got me hooked on pickup-making. Not overly bright but a nice kind of honky sound with a little bit of character.

AFAIK A4 was the one used most often in original PAFs, as well as other A's of course.

I can post some clips sometime with the same pickup comparing A2/A3/A4/A5 magnets if anyone's interested.

I'd also love to hear a sample of a good Gibson 335 DI'd which I can use as a reference point for my experiments

[cenizasblancas]

Yes!!!! i want to hear it!!!!