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Post subject: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:03 pm
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What is the difference? Or are they describing the same pickups?


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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:18 am
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Alnico V is a type of magnet used in many Fender pickups. Custom Shop Broadcaster and Twisted Tele are specific types of Fender Tele pickups. Those pickups might use Alnico V magnets, I don't know for sure. I have not seen published specs on those pickups.

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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:00 am
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Whatever they use in those Broadcaster & Twisted Tele pickups, I'm impressed - played a Tele with them in on Monday, and it just sounded exactly like a Telecaster should in my head, but never actually does whenever I play one. I'm 99.9% a Strat person, but I can easily see a Tele with those in as a purchase in the near future.

Very, very impressed. :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:24 am
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I've heard a lot of Fenders with different pickups and all custom shop or custom made pickups are always more interesting in sounding. it seems that alnico is standard technology used in pickups. I don't know the specifics but custom are always different than standard or alnico, or any others. For specific sound test YouTube is perfect source


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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:07 am
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Again, ALNICO is a type of magnet used in many pickups. Most common is ALNICO II and ALNICO V. Pickups also use ceramic and samarium colbalt magnets. "Standard" or "Custom" pickups do not imply a specific type of magnet.

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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:29 pm
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Re: the reason you're asking the question, yes the custom shop pup in the 2012 American Standards are vastly superior, especially the neck pup, which on the 2011 (alcino V) sounds muddy and crappy no different than a Mexican or Chinese guitar.

In other words, it's worth it to get the 2012 Am Stand Tele


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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:14 pm
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Her Wanna wrote:
Re: the reason you're asking the question, yes the custom shop pup in the 2012 American Standards are vastly superior, especially the neck pup, which on the 2011 (alcino V) sounds muddy and crappy no different than a Mexican or Chinese guitar.

In other words, it's worth it to get the 2012 Am Stand Tele


You may find the 2012 Tele pups more to your liking. But the Am Std Tele pups 2010-2011 are nice sounding pickups, a noticeable upgrade from MIM/Squier pups, IMO. The 2012 pups don't do it for me. That said, there are people that may prefer the tonality of the MIM/Squier Teles. To each their own.


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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 10:55 am
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I have stock pups (whatever they put in them in 1964) in my Vintage 64, great vintage tele sound.

Stock Texas Specials in my 50th Anniversary Vegas Tele. I bought the Vegas Tele from a Tech here in Nashville who makes custom pups for some of the Nashville Stars and he liked the pups in the Vegas so much that he didn't replace them with his custom pups. These are the same pups that Edge has in his Vegas Tele:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm2fCn6g1wU

And I have the stock ceramic pups in my MIM Standard and I love them for blues and rock.

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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:38 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
Most common is ALNICO II and ALNICO V.


There are also pickups with AlNiCo III magnets Fender used on the now defunct HWY1 series between 2006 and 2011. This type of AlNiCO magnet is usually found on many humbuckers.


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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 12:16 am
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chromeface wrote:
bluesky636 wrote:
Most common is ALNICO II and ALNICO V.


There are also pickups with AlNiCo III magnets Fender used on the now defunct HWY1 series between 2006 and 2011. This type of AlNiCO magnet is usually found on many humbuckers.


The operative words were "most common". :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:15 am
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chromeface wrote:
bluesky636 wrote:
Most common is ALNICO II and ALNICO V.


There are also pickups with AlNiCo III magnets Fender used on the now defunct HWY1 series between 2006 and 2011. This type of AlNiCO magnet is usually found on many humbuckers.


Fender used a lot of Alnico IIIs during the 50s. I'm not aware of Alnico III magnets as standard in many humbuckers. Rather, they are typically Alnico IIs and Vs.

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Post subject: Re: Alnico V's or Custom Shop Broadcaster & Twisted" Tele
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:24 pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnico

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Alnico is an acronym[1] referring to a family of iron alloys which in addition to iron are composed primarily of aluminium (Al), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co), hence al-ni-co. They also include copper, and sometimes titanium. Alnico alloys are ferromagnetic, with a high coercivity (resistance to loss of magnetism) and are used to make permanent magnets. Before the development of rare earth magnets in the 1970s, they were the strongest type of magnet. Other trade names for alloys in this family are: Alni, Alcomax, Hycomax, Columax, and Ticonal.[2]

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