The original boutique vintage humbucker pickups to make your Les Paul look vintage and sound priceless.
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. Seymour Duncan wind the bridge model a little hotter for better balance and added warmth, and use a custom hand-aging process to create an authentic vintage look and sound.
Each Antiquity humbucker is built in Seymour Duncan's Custom Shop and aged both cosmetically and magnetically to simulate the wear and tear that a pickup goes through after decades of playing. The mould Seymour Duncan use for their butyrate bobbins was created by the same factory that built the original P.A.F. mould for Gibson.
Other key features include 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, Seymour Duncan wind every Antiquity humbucker on Seymour’s original Leesona winding machine from the early Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, MI.
Features
- P.A.F.-style humbuckers
- Authentic vintage look and sound
- Cutting highs, growling lows, and spongy warmth
- Hand-built in Santa Barbara, CA
- Not wax potted