alnico ?

[popthree]

i know how to tell an alnico speaker magnet from a ceramic, but i don't know how to tell if a tele pup is alnico. can someone point me to a pic or something?

thanks!

[mike_levitt]

If it looks like a "regular" tele pickup with round magnets for polepieces, and there are not bar magnets attached to the bottom of the pickup, it's alnico.

To be sure, you have to look under the pickup.

Mike

[yegbert]

Originally Posted by mike_levitt

If it looks like a "regular" tele pickup with round magnets for polepieces, and there are not bar magnets attached to the bottom of the pickup, it's alnico.

To be sure, you have to look under the pickup.

Mike

Has any guitar pickup been made with a bar magnet underneath, that wasn't ceramic? Or has any pickup been made a pickup with ceramic magnets, that involved a design other than a bar shape magnet underneath?

[popthree]

Originally Posted by mike_levitt

If it looks like a "regular" tele pickup with round magnets for polepieces, and there are not bar magnets attached to the bottom of the pickup, it's alnico.

To be sure, you have to look under the pickup.

Mike

yeah, i figured it would look something like what you are talking about. thanks.
on a side not..
i guess i should've posted this in the 'just pickups' forum.. oops.