How tough are humbuckers?
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Hopefully there's nothing wrong. Is there anything that could break or go wrong besides maybe the bobbin cracking?
Re: How tough are humbuckers?
There's no visible damage, is there anyway I can check without taking the whole thing apart? The wire was still wrapped around the pickup as it comes from duncan, so hopefully that obsorbed some of the impact. Fell from about 3 feet up. No cracks or anything in the bobbins, and nothing that looks out of the ordinary on the outside.
There's no visible damage, is there anyway I can check without taking the whole thing apart? The wire was still wrapped around the pickup as it comes from duncan, so hopefully that obsorbed some of the impact. Fell from about 3 feet up. No cracks or anything in the bobbins, and nothing that looks out of the ordinary on the outside.
Archer_of_Fish
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Re: How tough are humbuckers?
I'd just assume its fine until you have reason to assume otherwise. Dont pull it apart on a maybe.
I'd just assume its fine until you have reason to assume otherwise. Dont pull it apart on a maybe.
sosomething
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Re: How tough are humbuckers?
I'd be really surprised if it was broken in any way. I suppose it's possible, but solid construction and a lack of any moving parts make it unlikely.
A way to check without taking it apart? Put it in your guitar and plug in. If it sounds fine, it's fine.
I'd be really surprised if it was broken in any way. I suppose it's possible, but solid construction and a lack of any moving parts make it unlikely.
A way to check without taking it apart? Put it in your guitar and plug in. If it sounds fine, it's fine.
Fiesta Red
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Re: How tough are humbuckers?
What would be really cool would be if it sounded BETTER than before. You put it into your guitar, fire up your amp, and record some clips. You become a tone GOD, and people buy EVHs and send them to you so you can drop their pickups too. There becomes a big discussion about dropping it from too high a height will do this, whereas to low will cause these tones. What if I dropped a 59, or a Seth Lover, or even a Custom Custom? Followers will want to know what brand of flooring you have, and is it ceramic tile, marble, composite, granite..... each brand of flooring and each floor material will give a different result. Hybrids will emerge -- this brand of flooring mixed with this type of material will give you this tone. Some will even try brick, wood, or carpeted flooring. Did it bounce once, twice, bounce and then roll, and which side of the pickup did it hit? Seymour Duncan and Larry Dimarzio both will claim you told them your secret for dropping pickups. Some famous guitarists and fans will claim they were there when you dropped it. One guy even told you to drop it. Some guy on ebay will claim to have the original table you dropped it from, and others will be selling pieces of the original floor.
Dude, you are SO lucky!:bigthumb:
-Mark
What would be really cool would be if it sounded BETTER than before. You put it into your guitar, fire up your amp, and record some clips. You become a tone GOD, and people buy EVHs and send them to you so you can drop their pickups too. There becomes a big discussion about dropping it from too high a height will do this, whereas to low will cause these tones. What if I dropped a 59, or a Seth Lover, or even a Custom Custom? Followers will want to know what brand of flooring you have, and is it ceramic tile, marble, composite, granite..... each brand of flooring and each floor material will give a different result. Hybrids will emerge -- this brand of flooring mixed with this type of material will give you this tone. Some will even try brick, wood, or carpeted flooring. Did it bounce once, twice, bounce and then roll, and which side of the pickup did it hit? Seymour Duncan and Larry Dimarzio both will claim you told them your secret for dropping pickups. Some famous guitarists and fans will claim they were there when you dropped it. One guy even told you to drop it. Some guy on ebay will claim to have the original table you dropped it from, and others will be selling pieces of the original floor.
Dude, you are SO lucky!:bigthumb:
-Mark
sosomething
Seymour Duncan Customer Support
Re: How tough are humbuckers?
This was an awesome post.
:bigthumb: You forgot one thing, though - dropping is in the fingers, man! No two people will drop a pickup the same - you have to have the right feel.
Besides, a great dropper could drop a pickup off a table, a counter, or a building and still sound like themselves.
Fiesta Red said:
This was an awesome post.
:bigthumb: You forgot one thing, though - dropping is in the fingers, man! No two people will drop a pickup the same - you have to have the right feel.Besides, a great dropper could drop a pickup off a table, a counter, or a building and still sound like themselves.
Fiesta Red
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Re: How tough are humbuckers?
Dude! You are ON it! That was perfect. Hilarious!!!!!:bigthumb:
-Mark
sosomething said:This was an awesome post.
Besides, a great dropper could drop a pickup off a table, a counter, or a building and still sound like themselves.
Dude! You are ON it! That was perfect. Hilarious!!!!!:bigthumb:
-Mark
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