Seymour Duncan Antique Humbucker Bridge

Description

'11014-05 Original boutique vintage humbucker pickups to give your Les Paul a priceless vintage look and sound. These pickups deliver the aesthetic and tone of the most elusive vintage P.A.F. humbuckers. The Antiquity neck humbucker delivers an articulate yet smooth tone that comes from a perfectly balanced frequency response combining a sweet treble attack with a warm, full-sounding low end. The custom aged alnico 2 bar magnet creates an airy openness in the top end that provides clarity and chord articulation, while the vintage output coils really bring out the rich harmonic content. Single notes have a wonderful 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 designed by Seth Lover in 1955. High notes cut through without being overly bright, and low notes growl with a 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 aesthetically and magnetically to simulate the wear and tear a pickup undergoes 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 fabricated 42AWG plain enamel magnet wire, nickel silver cover, 2.5 inch alnico 2 bar magnet, custom machined metal and maple spacer, single-conductor braided push-back lead wire, and nickel silver bottom plate with 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, we wind all Antiquity humbuckers on Seymour's original Leesona winding machine from the original Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, MI.'