The original boutique vintage humbucker pickups to 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 really 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. Seymour Duncan wind the bridge model a little hotter for better balance and added warmth, and, as with the neck model, Seymour Duncan use the same custom hand-ageing 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 Seymour Duncan's butyrate bobbins was created by the same factory that built the original P.A.F. mould for Gibson. Other key features include Seymour Duncan's 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
- Articulate, yet mellow tone
- Soft, sweet treble attack
- Warm, full sounding low-end
- Airy openness gives chords clarity and articulation
- Single notes have beautiful singing quality
- Open, airy tone
- High notes cut through without being overly bright
- Low notes growl with spongy vintage warmth