Fun with magnets !

legobeast · Post by **legobeast** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:49 am

Is it true that some of the newer vintage issue Ricks now have the neck pickup with a shorter magnet to balance out the outputs from the pickups due to the drop in volume as the bridge has the 0.0047 cap fitted. If this is so where can I obtain one of these pickups from and if the cap was fitted into the 70's then does this mean earlier higains also had neck pickups with shorter magnets.Where could I obtain one of these from and is there a cutoff date when this practise ended !!!

soundmasterg · Post by **soundmasterg** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:09 pm

The high gains use a ceramic bar magnet that is glued on the bottom of the pickup and the polepieces contact the top of this magnet, so there isn't a shorter magnet in them. The toasters have used long and short alnico rod magnets in the past, and a shorter one gives the pickup slightly more highs and makes it a tad less powerful, but the power is more dependant in the toaster design on the amount of turns of wire rather than the magnet length.

BTW, your posts are a lot easier to read if they aren't one big run-on sentence!