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Post subject: Re: Do pickups 'die"? If so, how can u tell?
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:25 pm
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In 2002 I bought an Olly White Clapton Strat and three months later a Surf Green Strat from a dealer on Ebay for 1k each. There was nothing shady about either guitar, the guy had a 100% feedback rating with over 800 transactions. I played both Strats daily for about 18 months and then one day I didn't get a peep out of the bridge pup on my Clapton. I took it to my friends shop (who is a personal friend for 25 years) and he hooked it up to a voltage meter and told me the pup was dead! I had no clue or inclination how this happened since I played it the night before and he said "sometimes it just happens". So I went behind the counter to see if their was a Clapton Vintage Noiseless pup in stock and their was only a Beck Hot Noisless and he said he would just order me one and I would have it in a week. Being the impatient guy I am I made him throw in the Beck Hot Noiseless (since they are my favorite noiseless Fender pup) and it changed the guitar in a much better way lol. Sometimes the stars just alighn and something magical happens and it did with this guitar, especially when using the mid boost. I say that because my #1 Tele is an 85 MIJ 62 reissue that I totally modded with medium jumbo frets- D'imarzzio Fast Track 1's the first year they cameout in 91, and changing the steel threaded barrel saddles with Brass. This Tele is amazing and can run the classic rock alphabet from AC/DC to Zep with authority. Starting on a Tele and with them being my all time favorite guitar I had another Tele I had just bought and figured since the first one came out amazing, I'll do the same thing. I was completely mind boggled when the guitar turned out sounding like total $@!& lol. As I got older and learned more about guitars my guess is that the 62 reissue had a Basswood body and is light as a feather and just took to the stacked humbuckers as well as everything just coming together right. The second guitar had a very heavy Swamp Ash body and maple neck and I got the complete opposite results. I own 30 guitars and if I had to be buried with one it would be my 62 reissue which used to blow guys minds, as they couldn't believe the tone I got/get from it till this day. Also in 91 you didn't have players like John-5,- Ritchie Kotzen- or Jim Root modding out Tele's like that, which I call Tele's on steroids lol. But to answer your original question a pup can just up and die, but like someone else posted I have only seen it happen once in over 50 guitars I have owned through the decades.


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