0.195" X 0.688" ALNICO 5 ROD UNMAGNETISED

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Description

These Alnico rods are supplied unmagnetised (uncharged) for easy handling and pickup assembly.

For essential information about which Alnico rods are needed for which pickups, please see the PDF on the right.

For polarity testing equipment, please see SKU 50910 and 50930.

For neodymium magnets for magnetising Alnico rods, we recommend 25mm x 5mm disks.

Useful information

• Tele® bridge pickups are always south up
• Tele® neck pickups were north up but became south up in the mid 1950s
• Strat® were north up until 1960 when they became south up and remained this way with the exception of some of the newer models such as the 'Texas Specials'
• From 1957 the Jazzmaster has a north and south to make them hum-cancelling in the middle position. The same is true of the Jaguar, Mustang and Jazz Bass-paralleling Gibsons' new humbucking pickup
• The P-Bass has one part of the pickup north and the other south to make it hum-cancelling. Early P-Basses with the Tele-style headstock had a Strat-shaped single coil pickup
• Gibson P90s are always south up and the PAF humbuckers are south on the screwside and north up on the slug side.