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I don't deny being a vintage whore. I accept it is because of what they are and the time they represent. Not because they are better than new ones.
modern alnico and ceramic not so much, maybe 1% over a decade, which is as good as nothing. but old iron and steel magnets 40 years old or more will be double figures weaker.
but other factors can shorten that. Knocks, magnetic fields etc...
Cunife was fairly terrible for this.
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A lot of instruments become Trigger’s Brooms so all the various changes will make changes to the sound ( good or bad) but someone listening to their guitar and saying it sounds sweeter or whatever than it did twenty years ago is pretty much... well, I think the notion that any other of us can be that accurate across large gaps in time doesn’t reflect how memory tends to work. Saying a guitar sounds less bright than it used to probably reflects a loss of hearing more than it does a change in the guitar.
in a humbucker they are fairly well protected and unlikely to receive significant knocks... a strat with raised poles might receive a knock every time you strum
are the other magnets in the guitar close enough to drain each other... do they need to be reverse polarity to even consider this
is bobbin shrinkage going to cause more of a change?
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gear ageing badly also applies to fx pedals. caps die.
hendrix played a spanking new fuzzface at woodstock, not some fifty year old relic with crapped-out leaky caps that no longer perform their function.
a modern build by someone who can pick transistors and diodes (@juansolo and others here) to match known vintage specs will sound more like the pedal hendrix used than anything 'totally original' hanging around from that time now.
You are going to start to get problems with electrolytic caps after 30 years or so (I also restore old computers and consoles and they are the bane of my life, particularly in PSUs). Then you've got carbon comp resistors in old pedals, they were all over the place even back then.
I'm all for replacing things that don't work any more/properly with things that do, rather than keeping things 'pretty' or original on the inside.
Must be the recently fitted locking tuners adding more mass to the headstock end of the neck.
Problem is is it's not as predictable as they would have you believe. The random addition of weight is just as likely to be negative as positive.
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Hey! It's a real issue affecting 100% of burst owners!
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