Description
If you’ve been chasing that unpotted, un-hyped PAF sound without hunting down a real 1959 Gibson, this is the set that gets you closest. Seymour Duncan built the Antiquity Seth Lover pair exactly to Seth’s own specifications, right down to the winding machine — Seymour’s original Leesona unit, salvaged from the early Gibson factory in Kalamazoo. It’s a calibrated neck/bridge pair, so the two pickups are voiced to work together rather than fight each other.
The neck pickup leans smooth and sweet: a full, warm low end balanced against a gentle, singing treble. An alnico 2 bar magnet rounds off the top end while vintage-level output coils pull out plenty of harmonic complexity — single notes come through with that piano-like, percussive snap the unpotted nickel silver cover is known for.
The bridge pickup keeps that same open, airy character but pushes a little more push into the top end for articulation. Chords stay full and unclipped, single notes stay soft-edged rather than harsh — ideal for solid body or semi-hollow guitars aiming for classic rock warmth over modern bite.
Each pickup is hand-built in Santa Barbara using butyrate bobbin molds made by the same factory that produced Gibson’s original PAF molds. Construction details include 42AWG plain enamel magnet wire, a 2.5-inch alnico 2 bar magnet, custom machined metal and maple spacers, single-conductor push-back braided lead wire, and a nickel silver cover and bottom plate.
- Calibrated neck/bridge humbucker set
- Alnico 2 bar magnets, 42AWG plain enamel wire
- Unpotted, nickel silver covers
- Hand-wound in Santa Barbara on vintage Leesona equipment
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