Samarium Cobalt Magnets and... Fender. HA!

sir_andrew_of_left_coast · Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:55 pm

I got on Fender's e-mail list when I entered on of their contest give-a-ways. Anyway, I just got an e-mail from them about their newest contest: 50th Anniversary Stratocaster.

In the write up, it states:

"...this is a limited edition 2004 American Deluxe 50th Anniversary Stratocaster guitar complete with our revolutionary Samarium Cobalt Noiseless™ pickups..."

HA! How long have the Samarium Cobalt RIC humbuckers been around??? Revolutionary, my eye!

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:29 pm

I was planning to be reticent on this one, wondering if anyone else had picked up on it. I first saw this a few weeks ago in Guitar Player (I think). Ahem...

It made me love my 650 all the more. Noel

sir_andrew_of_left_coast · Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:22 pm

Same for me and my 220, 260, and 650.

I wonder how the Samarium Cobalt Toasters sound? As found on the that one-off (or few-off?) 350V59 that was done for Elliot Easton...

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:31 am

Maybe John Hall was being the Good Samarium and just gave the idea to Fender?
(Top that one, Peter!)

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:36 am

They're claiming that the pickups are revolutionary, not that they are the first to use SC magnets in a pickup. A common complaint about the old Noiseless series was low output by comparison to original design Strat pickups, and my guess is that the SC magnets help remedy that.