Alnico 2 cast bar magnets for humbuckers and guitar pickups.
The first documented magnetic electric guitar pickup was made in 1931 by the Rickenbacker Company. This pickup was on Rickenbacker’s solid aluminum guitar, both the guitar and pickup were the creation of George Beauchamp and Paul Barth. The patent number (2,089,171) was not obtained until 1937. This pickup had tungsten steel magnets, but today’s cost for tungsten steel would make the pickup unbelievably expensive.
Currently, the magnet for the guitar pickups usually Alnico magnet or Ferrite magnet. The Alnico 2 is For 6 string humbuckers and P-90’s, smoother sweeter sound than other magnet, comparing with ferrite magnet, the AlNiCo II magnets cut out all the harshness and added smoothness and more sustain.
The commonly used sizes are 0.5″ width and 0.125″ thickness, and the length can be customized into different lengths. Magnetization direction is 0.5″
| Length | Width | Thickness | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| inch | mm | inch | mm | inch | mm |
| 2.5 | 63.5 | 0.5 | 12.7 | 0.125 | 3.175 |
| 2.44 | 61.98 | 0.5 | 12.7 | 0.125 | 3.175 |
| 2.36 | 59.94 | 0.5 | 12.7 | 0.125 | 3.175 |
| 2.22 | 56.39 | 0.5 | 12.7 | 0.125 | 3.175 |
| 2.16 | 54.86 | 0.5 | 12.7 | 0.125 | 3.175 |
| 2.7 | 68.58 | 0.5 | 12.7 | 0.125 | 3.175 |
