Rust on Single coils

nomorebridge · Post by **nomorebridge** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:08 pm

That's not good is it, or does it not matter?

bassintom · Post by **bassintom** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:52 pm

Doesn't hurt a thing..looks cool

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:02 pm

purely cosmetic

Post by **dots** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:08 pm

i mean, i guess if it gets WAY out of hand, rust can lead to shorts or broken connections, can't it? i haven't ever seen anything that serious, and i think you're more likely to see rusted bridges and other hardware fail from corrosion than you are with electronics.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:11 pm

i would imagine that to affect the sound or the pickup in general the pole piece would have to basically be rusted completed out.

Post by **dots** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:13 pm

robert(original) wrote:i would imagine that to affect the sound or the pickup in general the pole piece would have to basically be rusted completed out.

yeah, i mean, in theory it's possible, but it'd have to be really, really bad.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:17 pm

i have seen/ heard of guitars from the coast line being in the "line of fire" with all the salt water and stuff.
so i guess that if a strat from 57 was kept in a beachouse for its entirelife and got the sweat treatment then yes, i guess i could see the pole peices erroding away to almost nothing, but it would have to be the right conditions i suppose.
can you confirm or deny the coast myth dots?

nomorebridge · Post by **nomorebridge** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:45 pm

I think the person who owned this jazzy before me must of:
a.) not looked after it so well
b.) had that kind of persperation that mangles guitars

I hope it's A

Thanks guy's was thinking I might need to replace the bastards but hopefully I'll get away with it for a while anyways