How long do pickups last, generally?

[Windwatrerthfir]

Just wondering how long pickups last generally. I mean magnents eventually loose charge, but after years. I'm just trying to make sure when I pickup my guitar in 10 years its going to sound beautiful.... after the string change.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: How long do pickups last, generally?

I wouldn't see why not...it is pretty rare for a pickup to simply stop working, unless somebody messed with it...

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: How long do pickups last, generally?

I have a 1937 Rickenbacker bakelite Lap Steel just just David Lindley's....the pickup kicks butt! Pickups should last a lifetime. Lew

 

[Windwatrerthfir]

Re: How long do pickups last, generally?

I'm not saying not working, but do you think they can loose some output? Or just some of feel?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: How long do pickups last, generally?

My ES175's P-90 is still kickin ass, and it's like 50 years old.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: How long do pickups last, generally?

I'm not saying not working, but do you think they can loose some output? Or just some of feel?

I'm sure they do, but it's such a gradual process that you wouldn't hear it, and it would take so long that even if you didn't play it for X number of years, you wouldn't remember what it sounded like to begin with.