* Permanent Magnet Merial:
AlNiCo 2/ Alnico 3/ Alnico 4 / Alnico 5 /Alnico 8
* Size:
2.5″ Length x 0.5″ Width x 0.125″ Height
or 2.18″ Length x 0.5″ Width x 0.125″ Height
or 2.444″ Length x 0.492″ Width x 0.125″ Height
* Polished: Unpolished – Vintage Rough Cast or Sand Cast, Vintage PAF
* For humbucker and P90 pickups
* A2/A3/A4/A5/A8 – one end painted colour (customer choose blue/red/green/black -.) for easy identification
* Magnetizing Options:
Not Magnetized or Magnetized
AlNiCo stands for aluminum nickel cobalt. The rest of the magnet contains mostly iron (over 50%) and typically copper. These five alnico bar magnets all look the same but are very different in strength and tone. Here are the common bar magnets usedin humbuckers and P90s, explained in order of grading (which seems to follow no order whatsoever):
Alnico II has a nice vintage sound to it. Treble frequencies are very much in the forefront with this magnet. In terms of strength, it’s right in the middle of these five magnets.
