Where is the best place to get PU Magnets?

[Kapo_Polenton]

Is Ebay the best go to or are there places that sell assortments of magnets? I have a ton of pickups that I wasn't crazy about, maybe magnet swaps would yield some fun results. I'd love to mess with my SH-11 and Pariah humbucker I got a few months back. Maybe try A5 and A8 and see what happens. I'd like to try rough cast vs polished too though I have read that it is debatable whether or not there is really that much of a difference depending on what the magnets are made with.

 

[panhead]

mojotone

 

[scottosan]

Is Ebay the best go to or are there places that sell assortments of magnets? I have a ton of pickups that I wasn't crazy about, maybe magnet swaps would yield some fun results. I'd love to mess with my SH-11 and Pariah humbucker I got a few months back. Maybe try A5 and A8 and see what happens. I'd like to try rough cast vs polished too though I have read that it is debatable whether or not there is really that much of a difference depending on what the magnets are made with.

Not sure who’s debating the sound difference. The is clear differences in base tones between the types of magnets. Then the rough case slaws seem to be a tad less harsh. Then you can take it step further by degaussing a magnet by taking a stronger magnet and placing the opposing poles together until you get the desired effect. The reason vintage PAFs have that tone is partly because they’ve had opposing poles mounted 6 inches apart for 50 years slowly degaussing the magnets.

 

[LP Freak]

Philadelphia Luthier

 

[SpiderWars]

You could also just swap magnets using the existing pile of pickups you have. I recently pulled the rough cast A5 from the Gibson Burstbucker Pro that was in my LP and put it in a custom 9k7 pickup I had built for me about 20 years ago and it brought that pickup back to life.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

You could also just swap magnets using the existing pile of pickups you have. I recently pulled the rough cast A5 from the Gibson Burstbucker Pro that was in my LP and put it in a custom 9k7 pickup I had built for me about 20 years ago and it brought that pickup back to life.

I could do that but I like the ones I have enough to leave them as is or sell them but i should bust open a few of the OEM ones that I have in cheaper guitars that were taken out and see what they have. Might be a lot of ceramic.

 

[RedPlated]

I've gotten them from Addictionfx on eBay

 

[scottosan]

I've gotten them from Addictionfx on eBay

I just checked my ebay. That’s who I get them from as well.