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I think it is a cool looking pickup.
The threaded slugs and bar magnets would still sound good with that vintage look.
Plus with bar magnets, you can put whatever type magnet you want, in it!
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It's based on the Reissue/faux WideRange pickup . so discard the slugs & the bar magnet besides that ,these parts look good if they are not brass .& no steel reflector plate that No one sells (but it is east to make yourself) . but the the Threaded magnets (which you need 12 per pickup ) each one cost so much a humbucker bar magnet . that & the WR pickup being a Niche product . that's why you don't see kits . this should of been in a smaller footprint PAF sized pickup ,It would of been a way more popular guitar model , especially in today's market .Last edited by copperheadroads; 05-17-2020, 04:38 AM.
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Originally posted by Tibernius View PostAxesrus (UK) make a "modern" one with a bar magnet setup rather than the CuNiFe rods: https://www.axesrus.co.uk/Modern-Wid...hbpartskit.htm
I haven't seen any vintage/period correct ones yet.
Great looking kit, and I would rather have it like it is, with the Alnico magnets.
Too bad it is out of stock, and in the UK across the big pond!
The price really not too bad for all the vintage looking parts. Prices From: £31.44 Inc VAT
Great Pictures of the widerange parts and assembly!
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Originally posted by big_teee View PostCurious, why no one makes a Wide Range Humbucker Pickup kit.
I see kits for a lot of others, including a filtertron kit, but no wide range?
If anyone knows of a wide range kit, please list it here.
Thanks,
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I haven't seen any vintage/period correct ones yet.
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Curious, why no one makes a Wide Range Humbucker Pickup kit.
I see kits for a lot of others, including a filtertron kit, but no wide range?
If anyone knows of a wide range kit, please list it here.
Thanks,
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Originally posted by SonnyW View Post...The other problem would be in getting some that is thick enough, most of what is available is in pretty thin sheets or strips. I have tried to re-magnetize some of the multipole strips from a magnetic tool holder strip....
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A lot of the part suppliers are listed here.
https://music-electronics-forum.com/...ad.php?t=30228
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Sent you a pm. I think. Hopefully not went through. Still figuring out this format.
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Does anyone have a name of a bulk supplier for 52mm single coil strat pickup covers?
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Originally posted by SonnyW View PostHere are a couple of photos. The first one is a picture of one of the jaws of my MAG24C. It is a block of steel 3.25 x 4 x 1 with one face beveled. I have annotated the dimensions on the photo.
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Also as a comment, I don't know if my magnetizer will have much effect on the hard ceramic magnets, I haven't tried to use it for that very often, but I seem to remember that it didn't make a lot of difference. The times that I would have tried it is if a ceramic magnet in some pickup I was rewinding appeared to be weak. That hasn't happened that often, and I didn't make any notes, I just seem to remember trying to boost the charge on some of them and it made little or no difference. I hope I have answered all of your questions.
You didn´t notice much effect (if at all) on ceramics because they don´t lose much (if any at all) anyway.
Now Alnicos weaken every time you move them (relative to the magnetic circuit that is) or let them stick to each other , they are that soft, so they usually benefit from remagging.
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It's somewhat useful but rather expensive, and in my experience it is really only good for a one time use. At the time I wasn't able to degauss it sufficiently to re-use the sheets.
I have been using the same viewing films for many years.
BTW, these viewing films get bright if the the magnetic field lines beneath run parallel to film and dark areas show where the field lines are perpendicular to the film plane. I use them to check if magnets are uniformly magnetized. Viewing the flat side, a bar magnet should show a straight bright zone (called the "neutral zone", where north and south poles cancel) running through the middle between the poles. A curved, slanted or off center bright zone indicates a non-uniform magnetization resulting in uneven pole strengths.Last edited by Helmholtz; 04-19-2019, 06:06 PM.
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I measured the rubber magnets with the probe of my gauss meter. Just by passing the tip with the hall effect sensor along the magnet and noting the gauss readings and the changes in sign. My meter is an Alpha Labs DC Gaussmeter Model 1. I don't still have the piece of the tool holder magnetic strip that I tried to re-magnetize to straight through thickness pattern, or I would try measuring it again. I am just going on memory. I seem to remember that the field was much weaker, anyway it didn't work.
At one point, I had some magnetic viewing film. I don't have it anymore, or at least I haven't been able to find it in a long time. It's somewhat useful but rather expensive, and in my experience it is really only good for a one time use. At the time I wasn't able to degauss it sufficiently to re-use the sheets. I have a degausser now, I don't know if that would work to make the film re-usable. This was all a long time ago. I think I may have got the viewing film here, if not, it was someplace like this shop:
http://appliedmagnets.com/magnetic-viewing-film-c-7_63.html
Here are a couple of photos. The first one is a picture of one of the jaws of my MAG24C. It is a block of steel 3.25 x 4 x 1 with one face beveled. I have annotated the dimensions on the photo.
The second photo I got from Wikipedia, which shows the multipole pattern of a refrigerator magnet. it must be attributed to its original author:
By Zureks - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5304630
It was from the Wikipedia article on Refrigerator Magnets. This also mentions an interesting method of magnetizing the rubber magnet called a Halbach Array. Maybe that is what is going on as well. Halbach Array.
Also as a comment, I don't know if my magnetizer will have much effect on the hard ceramic magnets, I haven't tried to use it for that very often, but I seem to remember that it didn't make a lot of difference. The times that I would have tried it is if a ceramic magnet in some pickup I was rewinding appeared to be weak. That hasn't happened that often, and I didn't make any notes, I just seem to remember trying to boost the charge on some of them and it made little or no difference. I hope I have answered all of your questions.Last edited by SonnyW; 04-19-2019, 04:03 PM. Reason: clarification: about Halbach array, I meant to say magnetizing the rubbermagnet, not film
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