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Thanks for your interest guys.
Yes, if this next generation of "weak magnet/hotter wind" doesn't work out the way I'd like, then yeah, we will go back to the pickup we have. It toally smokes the MIM Re-issues, and in some ways I strongly prefer it to the original WRHB. The original does have a real, sweet, juicy, saturated sound to it and I think we're on the right track. I have more invested in this now than I care to discuss, (don't tell my wife), but that's the way us guitar folks are. We gotta keep trying new stuff and hopefully find something that is not only HUGE sounding, but unique at the same time. A twisted lot we are!
spankdplank, that is exactly the direction we're going. The formula is finding the right "magnet/wind ratio." I'm not sure we're quite sophisticated enough to partially de-gauss alnico v magnets, and alnico II and III are not too easy to come by. Besides, alnico v has a brighter sound which will help with the darksound often associated with over-wound coils. This has turned into a fascinating project that is forcing me to learn things I never knew before. There are people in the biz with far more knowledge than I will ever have in pickups and I'm sure they have most of this stuff figured out already, but I think the key thing here is, these new pickups "look" right. That's important to a lot of people! It was important enough to me to start this project!
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