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What are the types of magnets used in the different kinds of pickups?

April 26, 2017different magnets pickups types Used

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What are the types of magnets used in the different kinds of pickups?

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The vintage reissue guitar pickups use cylindrical Alnico magnets… like the originals. The vintage reissue bass pickups use tungsten steel ‘horseshoes’ as polepieces… like the originals … coupled to ceramic magnets (instead of the tungsten being magnetized like the originals). Our humbucking pickups use Samarium-Cobalt magnets. The modern guitar and bass pickups use “rubber” magnets . . . which are actually a zillion magnetic bits supported in a synthetic block. Each has unique properties for which they were selected to optimize performance in a given application.