Has Anyone Built a 5-2 Humbucker?

cvansickle

cvansickle

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I like the 5-2 Strat pickup. The concept makes sense.

Has anyone tried this on a humbucker? I'm thinking about cutting an Alnico 2 and an Alnico 5 magnet in half, then stick the two halves together with the Alnico 2 side under the treble strings and the Alnico 5 side under the bass strings.

What does the board think? Worth a try?
 
Re: Has Anyone Built a 5-2 Humbucker?

It ought to be physically possible to assemble a humbucker using four half-length bar magnets.

On single coil Five-Two models, the polepiece lengths can be chosen to compensate for any output imbalance caused by the "weaker" A2 magnets. I'm not sure what would need to be done about a humbucker's slug coil pole lengths to even out the magnetic fields?
 
Re: Has Anyone Built a 5-2 Humbucker?

Do a forum search...Evan said they have tried this at Duncan and Seymour was not happy with the results.

That said, there are buckers thta mix magnets...the Gibson Iommi for example uses Alnico II and Ceramc
 
Re: Has Anyone Built a 5-2 Humbucker?

I don't see it working myself. For one, opposites attract, and you'd play hell trying to get 2 magnets to sit next to each other unless you rotated one, putting North to South. At that point, as I (feebly) understand it, you've got one that's magnetically out of phase with the other. Not to mention the stronger magnet overpowering and possibly affecting the charged value of that magnet (or maybe they'd affect each other and you'd end up with an A4 or A3?)


Personally, I'd get a StagMag and try replacing the poles rather than a bar.
 
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