Ceramic kills Alnico (1 pnt to Ceramic)

[Guest]

So I have been looking into topics about placing/spacing with the two.

I just got a guitar back from the shop which features beautiful and dynamic P90 type Ceramic Humbuckers but I read that if you placed this guitar near a guitar with Alnico pickups, that could potentially hurt that guitar with the A magnets.

My question is, will my guitars be safe if I store them in their wood cases, near each other. Is there enough space to counter or not have to worry about the magnetic field. I hear the Ceramic magnets have a large magnetic field of Operations. I know nothing really about that, figured I would ask here. I only have one guitar with ceramics the rest are Alnico.

Thanks.

 

[jeremy]

i cant see a pup installed in a guitar effecting the pup installed in another guitar. yes ceramic magnets are stronger than alnico magnets in general, but with the size magnets used in guitar pups, unless the magnets are basically touching they wont effect each other.

 

[beaubrummels]

If the magnet in a pickup in one guitar could affect the magnet in a pickup in another guitar, then guitars like this could never be sold or used.

 

[Mincer]

I can't think of a real-life scenario where this would be the case. Your guitars are going to be safe.

 

[Mr. B]

There isn't anything about ceramic magnets that would make them harm other magnets that are near, otherwise you couldn't have ceramic and alnico magnet pickups in the same guitar. You can stack those guitar cases right on top of each other. It isn't going to hurt anything.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

No problem with ceramics, although neo magnets can affect alnicos even from a couple of inches away, particularly if stored in close proximity for long periods.
Hardly any pickups contain neos, though; they're just too powerful unless they're tiny, like the paper-thin discs some put under slug-type Strat pickups.

A ceramic can affect an alnico (especially the weaker ones) only if it's in direct contact.
People used to partially degauss A5 bars by touching a ceramic to them for a few seconds, to slightly mellow the tone and attack of their pickups.

So if you have a box of magnets - or a bag of pickups - it's a good idea to store your ceramics separately from the alnicos .
Nothing I know of can affect the charge of a ceramic... It's literally baked in.

 

[ehdwuld]

For guitar pickups
at one time pickers would lean the guitar against the back of a Fender twin
That large magnet on the back of the speaker
Would deguass the pickup magnet slowly over time
If left for a week or two. It would be noticeable

This is where that comes from

The pickup magnet is too small and to weak to produce this effect

Speaker magnets at much larger

 

[Guest]

ehdwuld Quick Question: What is guitar pron???

 

[ehdwuld]

Hmmm if you have to ask......

 

[Guest]

ehdwuld I have to. I know what guitar "porn" is but not "pron". I looked it up, turns out it's a thing far different from guitar porn. Who knew!

 

[54stratlover]

I’ve heard storing the raw magnets (alnico and ceramic) next to each other can be detrimental, but not when they are further apart (3-6 inches).

 

[ehdwuld]

I store my alnico and ceramic pickup mags in a small set of plastic drawers

The mags just hang out in the bottom of the drawers

I put other stuf in the drawers as well to maximize space

Most of my drawers have assorted nuts in them

 

[GuitarDoc]

You're fine, no need to worry.