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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
A Seymour Duncan custom order pickup that I once bought arrived de-Gaussed. Either legendary winder MJ had an off day or the rod magnets suffered in a security scanner.
If the magnet changes the shape of the flux then it will be robbing charge from the weaker magnets and/or re polarising them. When (most) pickup makers charge magnets we are very careful to ensure even field shapes ... I abandoned 'swiping' magnets as that could unevenly charge them ... our big neos are lowered top and bottom till held off contact by a few thousands of an inch ...allowed to charge the alnico to a reference gauss level, then retracted cleanly out so as not to distort the field shape. To my mind messing with big magnets near weaker magnets is a seriously poor idea.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I like to draw a comparison between Leo Fender and William Lyons of Jaguar Cars. Both oversaw the creation of some beautiful machines but both could be penny pinching when it came to some of the components.
The vintage Stratocaster bridge is the most rudimentary POS that would fulfil the required function and be quick and simple for semi-skilled workers to install.
I'd be very interested to see the patent application for this...
Would the strings not act as pole pieces to the neo magnets?
I have no idea what would happen then - you'd be putting a field through a vibrating pole (the string) through another field (from the pickup magnet) aligned with the coils
When I asked how it worked - they told me it added more mass to the bridge.
They probably need to get their story straight....
Not as bad as this mock up of the T-shirt though
Medicina di brevetto olio serpente.
Just turn the amp up a fraction more. Or twiddle the eq a tiny fraction.
I've clamped things on the headstock before to cure a dead spot on the neck ( fret 11 on the b string - oddly, over time, this seems to have cured itself). But spending that much cash on something that *may* help dead spots and adds a bit of mass to the bridge (= tiny bit of extra sustain, slightly fatter tone) is daft because most amps have an eq.
Adding just a hair more volume will give a far greater increase in sustain.