Just read Pete Prown's review of the SD Mag Mic SA-6 in VG magazine. Sounds like a winner but Prown finishing the review by rebuking SD and all pickup manufactures for using hard plastic (non-biodegradable) cases that could end up in a land fill. Really? what's next, solar panels on effects pedals? Besides, I bet those hard plastic cases really are biodegradable, you just have to wait longer, just like a styrofoam cup.
Mag Mic SA-6 pickup bio-hazard!
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jake_xms3_punk
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who throws out pickups anyway?
who throws out pickups anyway?
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Prown has a point, but there's also the issue that they can sit on the shelf for a very long time, and still be sold as new. If the package has started disintegrating, that's a much harder sell.
Not every business destroys as unsellable any product that doesn't move in 2 months.
Prown has a point, but there's also the issue that they can sit on the shelf for a very long time, and still be sold as new. If the package has started disintegrating, that's a much harder sell.
Not every business destroys as unsellable any product that doesn't move in 2 months.
TSE
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IanBallard
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It would be interesting to see ebony bobbins. Not really for the sake of satisfying the global warming occultists, but just for the hell of it.
It would be interesting to see ebony bobbins. Not really for the sake of satisfying the global warming occultists, but just for the hell of it.
Dr.K
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I can't remember where, but I recall seeing some like that. They may have been rosewood though.
I can't remember where, but I recall seeing some like that. They may have been rosewood though.
DrNewcenstein
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Was he talking about the packaging or the bobbins?
Either way, the hippie treehugger crap has got to stop.
Who cares about the landfills anyway? When the massive solar flare in 2012 washes over the Earth, everything will be recycled.
Was he talking about the packaging or the bobbins?
Either way, the hippie treehugger crap has got to stop.
Who cares about the landfills anyway? When the massive solar flare in 2012 washes over the Earth, everything will be recycled.
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We're not talking about fresh fruit here. How would it be if the '59 esquire disintegrated if it was not played for a while. I really don't see your point. You probably think "global warming" is real too.
We're not talking about fresh fruit here. How would it be if the '59 esquire disintegrated if it was not played for a while. I really don't see your point. You probably think "global warming" is real too.
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How does my saying that containers that degrade probably wouldn't have as long a shelf life as many small guitar stores need result in your bizarre rant?
We're talking about the plastic cases pickups come in, not the guitars they go in.
How does my saying that containers that degrade probably wouldn't have as long a shelf life as many small guitar stores need result in your bizarre rant?
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oh, I see....you think Prown was talking about the packaging that the PU was sold in and not the actual case that the PU is housed in? That's not what the review says. Read it for yourself (pg 138). I'm trying to point out that using a PU review in a guitar magazine is an over-the-top place to make a statement about someone's personal concern for ecology. If that seems bizarre to you, so be it but interjecting one's view about saving the planet in a guitar pickup review seems pretty bizarre to me.
oh, I see....you think Prown was talking about the packaging that the PU was sold in and not the actual case that the PU is housed in? That's not what the review says. Read it for yourself (pg 138). I'm trying to point out that using a PU review in a guitar magazine is an over-the-top place to make a statement about someone's personal concern for ecology. If that seems bizarre to you, so be it but interjecting one's view about saving the planet in a guitar pickup review seems pretty bizarre to me.
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Empty Pockets
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hah
wow
so this guy caring about the state of the planet offended you so badly that you started a thread about it?
glad most of the old people will be dead before i am
hah
wow
so this guy caring about the state of the planet offended you so badly that you started a thread about it?
glad most of the old people will be dead before i am
Agileguy_101
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I need another signature like I need another hole in my ass, but this is tempting.
My bobbins are made of 100% mastodon ivory. Tag said so. Tag knows tone.
I need another signature like I need another hole in my ass, but this is tempting.
My bobbins are made of 100% mastodon ivory. Tag said so. Tag knows tone.
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In any case, I thought Prown was ignoring some important factors, so your response was puzzling.
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Calling guitar manufacturer's to task for that issue in pickup parts is attacking a tiny market with minimal impact. Pickups tend to get reused, not thrown out. Getting big sources to even slightly change their habits would have FAR more impact than trying to get an infinitesimal contributor to change theirs. And wouldn't give people the impression that you aren't firing on all cylinders.
Haven't read the review, don't read the magazine, was relying on your words at the start of thread. Referring to bobbins as a case is uncommon, though. If he was talking about the pickup... Yeah, that's insane.
In any case, I thought Prown was ignoring some important factors, so your response was puzzling.
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Calling guitar manufacturer's to task for that issue in pickup parts is attacking a tiny market with minimal impact. Pickups tend to get reused, not thrown out. Getting big sources to even slightly change their habits would have FAR more impact than trying to get an infinitesimal contributor to change theirs. And wouldn't give people the impression that you aren't firing on all cylinders.
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Bobbins? I said nothing about bobbins. The reviewer's request was to stop putting pickups in hard plastic cases, and under that statement is a photo of the new SD pickup, housed in ... a hard plastic case, my Fishman pickup is in ...a hard plastic case, in fact, most sound hole pickups are in hard plastic cases (save for some of wood). But we are off the point, my original intent was to point out that a guitar pickup review in a guitar magazine is not the place to promote one's personal view that the planet needs protection from pickup manufacturers. By the way, the rest of the review is good, it's thoughtful and detailed, makes me want that pickup.
Bobbins? I said nothing about bobbins. The reviewer's request was to stop putting pickups in hard plastic cases, and under that statement is a photo of the new SD pickup, housed in ... a hard plastic case, my Fishman pickup is in ...a hard plastic case, in fact, most sound hole pickups are in hard plastic cases (save for some of wood). But we are off the point, my original intent was to point out that a guitar pickup review in a guitar magazine is not the place to promote one's personal view that the planet needs protection from pickup manufacturers. By the way, the rest of the review is good, it's thoughtful and detailed, makes me want that pickup.
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I think you are missing the point, I am not calling the manufacturers to task at all, I am saying that's Prown's statement about making the planet "greener" does not have a place in a guitar pickup review in a guitar magazine. I don't know how to state this in a more concise way, in reviewing the posts to this thread, it seems that the majority of responders get my point.
I think you are missing the point, I am not calling the manufacturers to task at all, I am saying that's Prown's statement about making the planet "greener" does not have a place in a guitar pickup review in a guitar magazine. I don't know how to state this in a more concise way, in reviewing the posts to this thread, it seems that the majority of responders get my point.