DiMarzio Humbucker magnet swap

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pittbull

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I’m hearing that swapping a magnet is difficult on a DiMarzio humbucker has anyone have any difficulty swapping out a magnet on a DiMarzio humbucker
 
The glue is brittle. Just run a razor knife around the base of the magnet and slip it under the magnet. You can then easily pry it off.
 
pittbull said:
Sounds like a pain in the A@&
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It's simple. You can also use a micro screwdriver and pry it loose at the ends. People who have said its hard have tried removing a ceramic magnet with a pliers which is stupid because the entire glued surface is resisting and the magnet shatters. If you pry it at the end the glue easily loosens.
 
I'm sure I had a new DiMarzio I don't remember the model that I gave up flipping the magnet because I couldn't budge it with the micro screw driver trick. I think the glue they use either varies in formulation or its hardness changes over time. Some glues get brittle as they age or fail entirely. Heat usually softens but it can make a mess of the wax potting.

The worst was a Lollar soapbar that must have had epoxied magnets (?!)

Mojotone unpotted PAF Clones secretly have industrial strength double sided tape securing the magnet and maple spacer to the baseplate. Screw driver is the only way to separate them.
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I don't think it's all DiMarzios that have the magnet glued in place. I think it's mostly the high output ones with the thick Ceramic magnet. I've tried pulling apart PAF Pros, Tone Zones, and Dominions, and they have all come apart easily.

One thing to keep in mind, though, IIRC, DiMarzio magnets are usually slightly off-size. They're a few hundreds of a mm smaller in width. That means that if you try to swap Duncan/Gibson-sized magnets in them, when you put them back together, the coils end up slightly crooked which is such an eyesore.
 
I've modded ToneZones, PAF's (the old discontinued DP103), Evos, PAF Pros, Air Nortons, Air Zones, Liquifire, Mo Joe, Utopia and almost all Airbuckers and more than I'd like to admit. All magnets came off easily, the only slightly gluey part was the magnet being held in place from the heavy wax-potting they do.
The biggest improvement for me was half-airing the Air Norton, Tone Zone and Liquifire to a point where they became sounding excellent - while being almost unusable for me before.

Anyway, I've never modded a SuperD, even though I owned many of them as I felt they were already as good sounding as it gets for that model.
 
Anficht said:
I've modded ToneZones, PAF's (the old discontinued DP103), Evos, PAF Pros, Air Nortons, Air Zones, Liquifire, Mo Joe, Utopia and almost all Airbuckers and more than I'd like to admit. All magnets came off easily, the only slightly gluey part was the magnet being held in place from the heavy wax-potting they do.
The biggest improvement for me was half-airing the Air Norton, Tone Zone and Liquifire to a point where they became sounding excellent - while being almost unusable for me before.

Anyway, I've never modded a SuperD, even though I owned many of them as I felt they were already as good sounding as it gets for that model.
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I have replaced the magnet within a Dimarzio/IBZ which is very close to Super 2 which is close to the Super Distortion.
https://www.tonejourney.com/post/greater-dimarzio-ibz-and-ibanez-v1

It wasnt difficult, too.
 
ive never really had an issue with dimarzio swaps, other than they sometimes have odd size magnets
 
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