Horseshoe ID?

[Glenn Wilde]

Can anyone positively ID this pickup, it's in a Cole Clark from Australia. It's shoes have basically no magnetism and it has nothing like the cajones my '36 B does. They are 1 1/4" shoes and it looks legit, I thought it was probably a Lollar/ Aiello pickup but I'm unsure. Hopefully it just needs magnetizing.
It's a wonderful guitar otherwise, it's just that my B walks all over it.

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[Glenn Wilde]

Here's the two

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[Rick Aiello]

Not mine … the only 1/4 we made were laminate (magnetic material sandwiched between two pieces of steel ) bass units

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I was always under the impression Mr. Clark made his own …

Check to see if the pole pieces are just steel slugs … or … alnico magnets

[Bill Fisher]

Cole Clark DOES design, and make their own. Just read the internet.

Bill Fisher

[Glenn Wilde]

Thanks guys, I'll look deeper into it. Maybe I'll pull it out for research purposes to measure ,and see if I can get more beef from it. It sounds good right now, just more Fender Champ than Rickenbacker, which I can live with but.....
Just looked on the web and it pointed me back to this thread and another on TDPRI that I posted on when I thought it was a Lollar.. no details about CC horseshoes but it appears they don't offer it anymore, probably got the Rick letter.

[Rick Aiello]

If they are hardened alloy steel, you can remag them … mild steel won’t stay charged

Worth a shot to see if they are permanent magnets or not … here’s a quick way to do it:

https://youtu.be/G8v8-Nc_Yy4?si=d04dYUVrca-zfrJI

[Michael Kiese]

If they are hardened alloy steel, you can remag them … mild steel won’t stay charged

Worth a shot to see if they are permanent magnets or not … here’s a quick way to do it:

https://youtu.be/G8v8-Nc_Yy4?si=d04dYUVrca-zfrJI

I can attest that this works. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Rick!

[Glenn Wilde]

Thanks guys, I'll pull it out this weekend, it needs strings anyway.

[Bill Fisher]

Glenn, On the internet, go to https://coleclarkguitars.com/about-cole-clark/pickups/
This should help you.

Bill Fisher

[Noah Miller]

That page does not even mention these pickups, but it is true that Cole Clark used to manufacture these horseshoe units themselves. The details of the design, I don't know.