Description
Long before Fender put maple boards back on the Telecaster line, Seymour Duncan was already bugging Bill Carson to build him one. That one-off slab-maple Tele became a personal favorite, and the Antiquity II neck pickup is Duncan’s attempt to bottle exactly what made it sing.
Rather than chase a museum-piece replica for the sake of nostalgia, this pickup keeps the aged look and the vintage-correct tone while quietly fixing the one thing vintage pickups are notorious for: microphonic squeal under gain or heavy modulation. A wax pot handles that, so you get the airy chime and woody snap of an old Tele neck unit without it turning into a feedback machine the moment you kick on a fuzz or crank a loud amp.
This is the calibrated neck half of the Antiquity II Tele set, wound with no cover for that bare, exposed vintage look, and voiced with a moderate output that stays clear and articulate rather than dark or muddy — the kind of neck tone that still cuts through a mix instead of disappearing into mush.
- Calibrated neck pickup, uncovered
- DC resistance: approximately 6.4k ohms
- Inductance: approximately 2.1 henries
- Q: approximately 2.05
- Wax potted to reduce microphonic feedback
- Height adjustment via 6/32 round head slotted screws into body cavity
Drop it into any standard Telecaster neck route for that classic, slightly aged twang Duncan chased straight from his own guitar.
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