Storing my Seymour Duncans... again

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Honestly, I did a search but can not find a conclusive answer. Best thing I found was "don't stack them...and avoid placing them near transformers, speakers and other strong magnetic field generators". No sh*t.

I currently store them like in the pic... but would like to optimise the conditions since some of them will remain there pretty much indefinitely...
Would it be recommendable to keep a single row of drawers empty between pickups. Maybe select them for magnet type and keep'm together?

Wish SD would chip in....
 
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Welcome.

I have always just kept them in the plastic box in which they are purchased, and pile them in a shoe box on a shelf. No issues yet, and some have been in/out for years.
 
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Hey, tnx for the welcome! No boxes left(got too many so I threw them all out). I can't imagine keeping A8 and A2 PUs within 1" from eachother for prolonged periods without ill effect. Not sure tho.
 
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I take my old pickups
put them in the new pickup's old box
and throw them in a pasteboard shoe box at the foot of my bed

sometimes I pull em out
talk bad to em
make nasty comments about there heritage
generally oppress them
and throw em back in the box

hasn't hurt em yet

oh
and Welcome to the Forum
 
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I don't see anything wrong with the way you have them stored in the picture. I'd personally leave them like that.
 
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Sorry, I gotta go change my pants. And by change my pants, I mean locate that stash.
 
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If they face each other you would risk degaussing them somewhat- which you might like but its unlikely you want to intentionally try this. but if you consider which way they face, i guess the key is sidebyside. not tops facing each other( not the expert am I, but i do store mine away fr ea othet)
 
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Yeah side by side, and tops facing only with opposing magnetic fields. Thing is that would take a fair amount of discipline, probably more than I'm capable of.

I'll select them for magnet types and make a couple of placeholders to connect the poles on the more powerfull HBs. Especially the Neos and A8 have a very strong magnetic field.
 
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Why would you need to keep the magnet types together? I see no logic in why magnet types need to be grouped and seperated
 
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Segregation, plain and simple. :lol:

No really, ideally you'd want magnets of similar strength closest together to avoid an A8 turning an A2 into an A4.

I think we need Mythbusters on this, because while magnetic fields do radiate out infinitely, they lose strength considerably over a short distance (otherwise you could never intonate you guitar with the pickups in it, even backed down).

Pickup magnets stacked directly on top of each other may eventually swap charges and corrupt polarity to some degree (opposites attract), but I would have to see hard evidence that a JB in the box sitting on top of or next to a Jazz in the box would have any adverse effect on either one.

I mean, they're shipped in cartons to dealers that way, and dealers stack them in display cases that way.


However, to be fair, those are generally short periods. If you've got a buttload like that pic shows and they're going to sit for months/years (I hate you! :lol: ) then you might consider insulating them if they're simply stacked on top of each other in boxes or loose in a shoebox. I dunno what would be a good insulator - some non-ferrous metal housings? Wrapping them in tin foil?
 
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Considering you usually see them stacked willy-nilly in a display case in the store, I think simply stacking them in the boxes they come in is more than sufficient.
 
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Tnx, I tossed the boxes(drawers in the pic are roughly the same size tho), and I think dealers pretty much figure they can sell the stuff in a couple of weeks/months... so proper "storage protocols" are not much of a consideration I reckon.
I want to be able to store these babies for years... without them hogging up an entire spare bedroom. Surely I'm not the only one hoarding a couple o pickups?
 
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I don't know, in every music store i go to around here, they don't move that many pickups. One store has had the same pickup selection for years. They've had a New In Box EMG 89 that does NOT have the quick connectors, it's that old. They've had the same Jazz neck pickup wedged between a JB and an Invader for quite a long time. I don't think pickups move all that quickly.

Honestly, I don't think it's that big of a deal. I've had a Seth Lover stored right on top of a Gibson 500T for at least months (possibly years, I don't really remember). When i finally put the Seth back into a guitar, if there was any kind of change to it, i couldn't hear it. The Seth sounded as good as ever.

Even in the unlikely (IMHO) chance the weaker magnets recieve a bit of charge from the stronger ones, it isn't that big of a deal to degauss them again. There are a few threads in here on how to do it, if memory serves.

In all honesty, however, I think we're making a mountain out of a molehill.
 
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You calling my mountain a molehill? :D
Yeah probably...At the amount of pickups we're talking I'd like some assurance tho. It would be a expensive mistake to find, because I went with assumption or gutfeeling instead of informing myself beforehand.

Tnx all.
 
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Well, to be fair I'm by no means an expert on the subject, I could be wrong. It is possible the gauss reading may have. changed on my Seth, but I never noticed a difference.

On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to store them according to magnet strength. I don't think it's necessary, but it sure couldn't hurt. Maybe just keep the A2's and A4's away from the A8's and ceramics or something.
 
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ehdwuld said:
I take my old pickups
put them in the new pickup's old box
and throw them in a pasteboard shoe box at the foot of my bed

sometimes I pull em out
talk bad to em
make nasty comments about there heritage
generally oppress them
and throw em back in the box

hasn't hurt em yet
Click to expand...

You, sir, have some SERIOUS ISSUES... :scratchch

:bling:

:joke:
 
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wow... nice collection and welcome.

How many pickups do you have?.
 
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Tnx, not sure...about 80 - 90 I think. They're not all in the pic and they're not all Seymour Duncans.

And talking has never done anything to them, they're stoic and resilient little buggers that scatter themselves around the house, and have ways of ending up under your foot when you happen to pass by carrying a tray of steaming hot Ramen.
 
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What's the weirdest pickup in your arsenal?.... and the most valuable?
 
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