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tinkering with a humbucker


Nick	tinkering with a humbucker Hello gentlemen, I'm no pickup maker, merely a guitarist who stumbled onto this forum in search of information. If anyone can share some wisdom, it would be greatly appreicated. What would happen magnetically if I take a humbucker, in this case a Gibson 490R, and swap the 6 slugs for 6 Alnico polepieces from a dead Fender Strat pickup? Assuming I get the polarity right and forgetting the difference in wire type or amount, would the alnico polepieces and the bar magnet interfere with each other in a bad way? My idea was to do this and flip the pickup around to put the slug side next to the end of the fingerboard, then when wired for coil cut achieve a hopefully truer Strat sound with the alnico magnets. It is on a parts-o-caster. thank you, Nick

Nick

tinkering with a humbucker

Hello gentlemen,

I'm no pickup maker, merely a guitarist who stumbled onto this forum in search of information. If anyone can share some wisdom, it would be greatly appreicated.

What would happen magnetically if I take a humbucker, in this case a Gibson 490R, and swap the 6 slugs for 6 Alnico polepieces from a dead Fender Strat pickup? Assuming I get the polarity right and forgetting the difference in wire type or amount, would the alnico polepieces and the bar magnet interfere with each other in a bad way? My idea was to do this and flip the pickup around to put the slug side next to the end of the fingerboard, then when wired for coil cut achieve a hopefully truer Strat sound with the alnico magnets. It is on a parts-o-caster.

thank you, Nick

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Joe Gwinn On 11/20/2005 8:29 PM, Nick said: --
Scott Gots one in the neck. I had a 15+K... -- 12/30/2005 10:47 PM