Swapping Magnets on a Strat Humbucker

[LtKojak]

Re: Swapping Magnets on a Strat Humbucker

Axesrus can't be the only people in the world to sell them!

Every single foundry will make'em if you buy in bulk.

So, unless you have several thousand customers, reselling the single piece to the single customer is not a lucrative business model, I'm afraid.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Swapping Magnets on a Strat Humbucker

Cutting alnico magnets without the right skills and facilities just isn't going to happen. They will just splinter, crack or shatter.

I start to feel like i have to try this out... Not that I have any need, but saying something like that isn't possible seems like a challenge worth taking. Cutting ceramic or concrete is no problem if you now what you're doing. Of course they maybe softer, but...

How hard that can be?

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Swapping Magnets on a Strat Humbucker

but i was talking about cutting them, not gluing them together?

Then you won't have enough mass to produce a required minimum output.

That's why ceramic are the most used. Cheap to produce and enough output for the required mass.

Even if you find alnico ones, I bet only A8 would produce enough output to be usable, A5 would sound thin and screechy; not enough mass to produce usable tone.

HTH,

 

[Jacew]

Re: Swapping Magnets on a Strat Humbucker

Then you won't have enough mass to produce a required minimum output.

That's why ceramic are the most used. Cheap to produce and enough output for the required mass.

Even if you find alnico ones, I bet only A8 would produce enough output to be usable, A5 would sound thin and screechy; not enough mass to produce usable tone.

Ok. There came the answer. Thank you.

(You could try to be less edgy and more straightforward and helpful sometimes...)

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Swapping Magnets on a Strat Humbucker

You could try to be less edgy and more straightforward

There's no fun in that.