"Wide-O" Fat Humbucker
Magnets: Alnico 2
Poles: Flat
Coil Wire: 43AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Braided or Vintage Cloth
Output: 8.3k
Neck Output: 7.4k
A fatter pickup due to the mix of higher & lower charged magnets. Where the standard "Wide-O" is single coil voice in a humbucker size, the "Wide-O" Fat Bridge & Neck pickup replaces the slugs with low charge staggered Alnico 2 magnets. Each string still has its own magnet for clarity & string definition. The difference with this fatter bridge is that the lower charge pole magnets widen the area of string magnetised, creating a beefier tone but unlike the humbucker where the bar magnet lies underneath both the slugs & screws giving an even spread of magnetised string, this variation gives the tone of the point of magnetisation over the pole with a kind of residual tone of the string above the slightly magnetised opposite pole.
This in effect is similar to the sound fading from magnet to slug which is somewhat fatter than a single coil but not as beefed up as a humbucker. Essentially a single coil voice with more presence in a standard Humbucker size.
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