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. 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, we wind
every Antiquity humbucker on Seymour’s original Leesona winding
machine from the early Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, MI.
