Description
The Thornbucker exists because Pete Thorn got sick of humbuckers that only sounded good through a cranked, dirty amp. Bring the gain down or switch to the neck pickup and suddenly you’re in mud city — a totally different tonal universe from the single-coil guitar sitting next to it. Suhr set out to fix that by chasing the sound of the best original 50’s “patent applied for” pickups: the clarity, the touch sensitivity, the way they clean up without collapsing.
Getting there wasn’t a matter of copying a spec sheet. Suhr’s team worked through magnets, wire gauges, wind counts and cover options, building prototype after prototype until the pickup responded the way those revered vintage examples do — articulate on the wound strings, breathing life into chords, and still able to snarl when you dig in. What you get with the Thornbucker is that vintage soul, but wound with Suhr’s build consistency and quality control, plus 4-conductor wiring for coil-splitting and other modern wiring tricks the originals never offered.
This is the bridge unit, 50mm spacing, finished in black.
- Magnet: Alnico IV
- DC Resistance: 8.4KΩ
- Wire: Plain Enamel
- Hook Up Wire: 4-Conductor
Also available in White, Parchment, Zebra, Reversed Zebra, and White covers, so you can match it to whatever guitar it’s going in.
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