My Full Shred Jr.

[Fusion1]

I was wondering if I could take out the ceramic mag of my lil 59 or JB JR and swap an alnico 5 in its place. It appears to have some kind of coating over the magnet and the rails (Epoxy?). Has anyone succesfully ever taken one of these out or is it foolish to even attempt this?

The only thing about this pickup now that is Full Shred Jr is it's looks. It's life started out as a JB JR bridge model and if I can swap magnets this will be a different beast entirely.

 

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Re: My Full Shred Jr.

thats cool

cant wait to hear it

 

[stratsandaks]

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I've been wanting to try an A5 in my Jb Jr as well, I don't have any advise for you but I will give you a bump.

Anyone?

 

[Fusion1]

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Thanks for the bump. Anyone tried this yet? Thanks.

 

[Benjy_26]

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I superglued a magnet that fell off a Dimarzio Fasttrack 2 back onto the pickup , if that helps any.

 

[Fusion1]

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Are the magnets glued on the LIL/JR series? If so whats the best way to get them off? And once off where to get magnets to fit that size as they are quite small compared to full sized humbuckers.

 

[Fusion1]

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bump again

 

[stratsandaks]

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And once off where to get magnets to fit that size as they are quite small compared to full sized humbuckers.

I've never cut magnets before but what I was going to try and do when I get time and a slab of A5, is to rough cut the magnet with a diamond bandsaw then use a diamond grinding wheel to get it to the final size. If that doesn't work, I'll get one of the guys in the toolroom at work to EDM it for me.

 

[3 cent hero]

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Are the magnets glued on the LIL/JR series? If so whats the best way to get them off?

no, and you gotta take the plastic baseplate off and pry the magnet out. they're a real bitch to get out.

 

[dd12939]

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And I was under the impression that they use the ceramic mags since it's smaller and it needs the stronger magnetic field of the ceramic.

 

[Fusion1]

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DD they do use ceramic magnets, that's why I wanted to try A5's instead.

3¢ how do you take the plastic baseplate off? There aren't any screws like a typical humbucker bobbin?

I am afraid to start pounding on the magnet to free it if it is in epoxy. If I do I might rip out the copper wire and then I have a worthless pickup. That why I was asking if this magnet is sealed with an epoxy or polyurethane of some sort. Someone out here has to know...

 

[Benjy_26]

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I would be loath to cut, pound, or sand any kind of mag. When you do this, the mag might lose it's strength.

 

[idsnowdog]

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I once cut a A5 magnet with a Dremel tool and cut off discs it took forever because their so damn hard. Its easy to cut ceramic magnets though.

Snowdog