Floyd Rose tremolo with Japanese made stainless steel saddles, 25,5” scale, nickel silver frets, Alpha 500K are wound with AWG43 wires ( yes, i measured from a broken pickups coil ), ~16-17K roughly DCR and alnico 5 magnets. Then, next i swapped the stock alnico magnet to unoriented sandcast alnico 5 that i’d bought from “Philadelphia 3.220 H (Slug Coil) Measured C:  92.2 pF (Series)/ 123.5pF (Slug Coil) Calculated Self Resonance Peak: 5.8419

Fretboard wood : Indian Rosewood Inlays : Genuine Abalone Dots Neck Pickup : JTS5500 Single (~6,76 K – Alnico V) Middle Pickup : JTS5500 Single (~7,13 K – Alnico V – RW/RP) Bridge Pickup : Secret Humbucker (14 K – Alnico V) Electronics : 1 master volume, 1 master tone, 5 way switch, mid booster switch and its 'JTS' stands for James Tyler Single, and they're Alnico V magnet-based pickups, wound at normal levels As for the bridge pickup, it's around 14K and is another Alnico V magnet-based humbucker.

As told by Wolfe Macleod To be or not to be! Not to be :) Wax potted vs. Non-potted. A visual representation of harmonic complexity This article has been written by Wolfe Macleod from Wolftone Pickups, one of the most significant and the most talented boutique winders. I have a very limited and short term relation with his Marshallheads once (i wished it could be longer and longer) and still remember how they blew me :) So i do trust his expertise and someday i want my blog to have a special interview with him. Anyway, i'll copy the whole article about potting a pickup or not and what would it make you lose or gain. This is the original link to the article; https://www.wolfetone.com/wax-potted-vs-non-potted-a-visual-representation-of-harmonic-complexity/ Please visit his website and meet his pickups if you haven't before. The guitar player for Duff McKagan’s Loaded, Mike Squires, brought his guitar over today with my Marshallheads in it. The Marshallheads were a little squirrelly for his under high gain. He’s doing a show here in Seattle next weekend, and wanted to make sure it was good to go. Before potting, I took a measurement of height adjustment and made a recording that displays a visual representation of the fundamental note, and all harmonic content. After potting, I reinstalled, and adjusted exactly. Same strings were used. Same settings. Same everything, as close as possible. The difference is striking. What you see here is an open A string tuned 1/2 step flat (with moderate gain) You will see a frequency bar on the rigth hand side. The fundamental note is represented by the 4th line from the bottom, 415.30hz. Everything else is harmonics. The brighter the line, the bolder and louder the signal. We can clearly see that many of the unpotted pickup’s harmonics are bolder, and sustain longer. In the bottom image, the higher harmonic frequencies die off much quicker, and are much less present. In the wax potted pickup, the two lowest harmonics are weak. When a pickup is potted, we all know it reduces microphonics. The other thing that is reduced are the harmonics of those microphonics.. harmonic complexity. No potting No Potting Wax potted Wax potted

: Medium Jumbo Bridge: Vintage-style 6-point tremolo Electronics: Standard Strat; 1 volume, 2 tone, 5- positions, and at the bridge, Seymour Duncan's excellent PG Plus—a version of the Pearly Gates pickup with Alnico 5 magnets. So we took a stock Pearly Gates, changed the magnet from an Alnico 2 to an Alnico 5, and added a few The PG Plus pickup, it's wierd with that DCR number but under the influence of Alnico 5, adds a bit more

Try it with 500K pots for maximum treble and harmonic presence. motivation also played a role. :) Let’s read my measuremens here; Dimarzio Air Norton (DP193) Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 12,58 K Ohm (Series) Measured DCR: 12,74 K Ohm (Series) Inductance @100Hz: 6,39 H (Series) Measured C: -21,9 nF (Series) Output: 270 Milivolts (advertised) EQ (B/M/T) – 6,5/7/5 (old catalogs ) – 6/6/6/5,5 (official website) Gauss: 250G slug, 270G screw (measured at top center of pole pieces)

Donlis DH-53 Neck Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 7.20 K Ohm (Series) Measured DCR: 7.5513 K Ohm (Series Magnet – Alnico 5 Measured DCR: 7,28 K Ohm (Series) Measured DCR: 3,64 K Ohm (Screw Coil) Measured DCR They both feature polished Alnico 5 magnets. The inductance values are almost identical. DH-53 is indeed a very clear neck humbucker. Perhaps I'll try my DH-53 with an Alnico 4 magnet or degauss the magnet inside it...

…And, my measuremens are here; Bare Knuckle True Grit Neck Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 9.70 K Ohm (Screw Coil) / -55nF (Slug Coil) Output: Moderate EQ (B/M/T) – 4/5/5 (i have derived it from official Inside, it houses an Alnico 5 magnet. Normally, with a fully charged Alnico 5 magnet in a humbucker, I would expect readings in the 300–380G On the official website, it’s presented with a 4/5/5 balance (well, that’s how I interpreted their bar

5 rod magnets and heavy Formvar mag wire with a special wind pattern to produce that bright, glassy, The hand-ground Alnico 5 magnetsand moderate windings (Heavy Formvar wire) yield a bright and punchy 5 magnets of equal length raised above the flatwork. …And, my measuremens are here; Seymour Duncan SSL-1 (STD and Underwound) Magnet – Alnico 5 (vintage staggered But with their strong Alnico 5 magnets, they also pack a solid low end.  

Pearly Gates (SH-PG1) is an Alnico 2 PAF clone. (Slug Coil) Advertised Resonance Peak: 6,50kHz Measured C: -34,5 nF Output: Vintage EQ (B/M/T) – 6/5/ 1,86H (Slug) Advertised Resonance Peak: 7,50kHz Measured C: -40,7 nF Output: Vintage EQ (B/M/T) – 6/5/ Lots of round and spongier bass freqs which are not as tight as ’59 with Alnico 5 magnet in, softer low 5 magnet within instead of Alnico 2.

Seymour Duncan Custom SH-5 Review Seymour Duncan Custom SH-5 Perhaps my favorite humbucker family from You may already know the Custom 5 and the Custom Custom from my previous reviews. But the Custom reads more like a typical Alnico 5-equipped humbucker: around 340 to 380 Gauss. That’s because the magnet inside the SH-5 is actually the same size as a standard Alnico 5 bar. Beyond that, it works well with most Alnico 5 PAF-style neck pickups that aren’t too mellow.

Alnico 8 was used to increase the output. – Alnico 5), 500K Bourns pot on volume & 250K Push/Pull pot on tone controls, onboard booster within Let’s see the measurements and technical nerdy stuff :) Dimarzio DP285 IGNO Magnet – Alnico 8 Advertised Alnico 8 makes a massive difference. IGNO has been told as “PAF Pro with more power”. Anyway, IGNO has spongier basses ( not as spongy as alnico 2, somewhere between alnico 2 and alnico 5

with different materials, Our CRUNCH PLAN8T model for example is our high gain humbucker model using alnico label said 43 AWG but after thorough checking its actually 42 AWG, in other time, i got a shipment of Alnico 5 magnets but after checking its gauss level  i found out they were not Alnico 5.   Bought some alnico 2s and after gaussmeter measurements i saw they were too high for A2s. We are offering Humbucker sized P-90 with various kind of magnets combinations, also utilizing more alnico