Author Topic: Yes, its silly pickup idea time! (Read 2581 times)

MDV · « **on:** January 29, 2006, 03:27:20 PM »

The silly pickup is this:

Take two magnets, one A5 and one ceramic. Cut them in half length ways. Stick them together. Stick that in a pickup. A warpig, say ( :twisted: ).

This is a silly idea to mix the benefits of A5 and ceramic without the problems of cramping multiple magnetic fields together. Does anyone that knows more than me think its a good idea? Has BKP tried it and thought it was rubbish?

OK, back to reality.....

Edited to take out some nonesense about the polarity order of the magents that was wrong.

HTH AMPS · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2006, 07:49:30 PM »

Seymour Duncan did just this with some of their Strat & Tele pickups... the wound strings had one type of magnet to give tight twang whereas the plain strings had magnets to give a smoother tone. I think they called them the Nashville series.

:twisted:

March · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2006, 11:38:01 PM »

That's correct, although the Nashville pickups use Alnico 2 & 5.

MDV · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2006, 07:52:44 PM »

Thats pretty cool, but I mean mixing the magnets all the time, on all strings, in a humbucker!

With a dremmel, carbide disk some superglue and some partience I could probably do it myself come to think of it.....

Where did I leave that KA distortion.........