As always, appreciate your comments.

I just learned something then, didn't realize that burying the magnets would mess up the flux ... now that you pointed it out, it makes good sense.
I guess the plan is to let the magnets do their thing and just draw from that potential with copper windings moving through the path of the natural flux lines.

At the far end of that flux loop, iron (if placed along the natural flux path) helps bridge (or complete) the circuit to bring it back home to the (attracting) opposite pole. I can see now how "burying" just bridges ("shorts out") the circuit right at the magnet so it doesn't ever reach out to where it can be utilized by the windings.

It's bad enough having rather small magnets ... let alone squandering the potential that they do have. I can sure see how attracting poles placed at that far end of that loop (on the opposite side of the windings) helps tremendously.

Yup, dual rotor axial (with attracting, adjacent poles) is the way to go. I can still place the neos near the perimeter of the 9" disk (on just one rotor for now) and still come out way ahead (of anything like what I've shown above).

Flux ... Ghurd ... ya both saved me headaches, broken knuckles and some major disappointment in the results. So thank you for that ... ;)

If I ever go the radial route it should definitely be with another conversion.
They have shaft, bearings armature base and fields in a handy package and have some potential if the right one is chosen and it's done Zubbly style. I'd make sure I had access to a lathe and learn to pour resin if I were to ever try one again.

I'm convinced that a small axial designed in such a way as to allow more magnets to be added later would be a fun project that might be able to take advantage of the poor wind conditions here and still produce some usable energy.

Thanks for the input!
(Literally, "back to the drawing board")

No offense taken ("so it won't hurt my feelings one bit"), I'm glad you said something so I won't keep making the mistake. I may be up on dial-up soon myself, so your comments do resonate and I can relate to having to wait for painfully slow, huge files to download.
I was trying to be sure to comply with the pixel restrictions and never even looked at the file size, my apologies to all who were effected by these.

With that in mind, I can always show an abbreviated version here and link to my Flickr account for higher resolution drawings showing greater detail if I feel that's needed.

Thanks for pointing this out, point well taken and I'll be more thoughtful in future posts.