Antiquity Humbucker Neck Pickup, Aged Nickel Cover
$169.00
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The original boutique vintage humbucker pickups make your Les Paul look vintage and sound priceless. The Antiquity neck humbucker delivers an articulate, yet mellow tone that results from a perfectly balanced frequency response that combines a soft, sweet treble attack with a warm, full-sounding low-end. The custom-aged Alnico 2 bar magnet creates an airy openness to the top-end that gives chords clarity and articulation, while the vintage output coils bring out the rich harmonic content. Single notes have a beautiful singing quality with just the right amount of treble emphasis. The Antiquity bridge humbucker delivers that open, airy tone of the great “P.A.F.” humbuckers that Seth Lover designed in 1955. High notes cut through without being overly bright, and low notes growl with spongy vintage warmth. We wind the bridge model a little hotter for better balance and added warmth, and, as with the neck model, we use the same custom hand-aging process to create an authentic vintage look and sound. Each Antiquity humbucker is built in our Custom Shop and aged both cosmetically and magnetically to simulate the wear and tear that a pickup goes through after decades of playing. The mold we use for our butyrate bobbins was created by the same factory that built the original P.A.F. mold for Gibson. Other key features include our specially manufactured 42AWG plain enamel mag-wire, nickel silver cover, 2.5-inch alnico 2 bar magnet, custom machined metal spacer & maple spacer, single conductor push-back braided lead wire, and nickel silver bottom plate with long mounting legs. Staying true to the original Gibson P.A.F., these humbuckers are not wax potted, which takes you right to the edge of harmonic breakup. For that unmistakable vintage mojo, every Antiquity humbucker is wound on Seymour’s original Leesona winding machine from the early Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, MI.
Features
- The legendary "PAF" humbucker sound you've heard on countless records
- To retain the sound and appearance of the originals, the pickup is not wax potted
- Hookup wire includes the classic braided "push back" cloth braid wire
- Mounting ring is marginally higher to accommodate the increased pickup height
- Magnet and bottom plate are signed by Seymour Duncan
- Standard spacing
- Type - Humbucker
- Position - Bridge
- Active/Passive - Passive
- Magnet Material - Alnico II
- Number of Conductors - 1 wire plus braided shield
- DC Resistance - 8.6K
- Connectivity - Soldered
- Number of Strings - 6
- Covering - Covered
- Color - Aged Nickel
- Format - PAF
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