Description
Seymour Duncan didn’t just chase the tone of a decades-old P-90, they reverse-engineered the whole build process. Pull the cream soapbar cover off this Antiquity and you’ll find the same hand-wound bobbins, the same wire, and the same “flatback” tape that went into gold tops and old ES-330s. Nothing about this is a modern shortcut dressed up to look old.
Two Dun-Aged Alnico II magnets, matched and calibrated for the neck slot, sit on a precision metal spacer that pushes the field through six fillister pole pieces straight to the string. That’s the mechanical heart of the classic P-90 growl: fat, a little grimy, with an upper midrange snarl that cleans up beautifully when you back off the volume knob. This is the neck version, wound to 8.10K DC resistance with 6.85 henries of inductance and a Q of 2.84 — slightly softer and rounder than its bridge counterpart, which is exactly the balance a neck pickup should carry.
Built in Gibson Les Paul spacing with a cream soapbar cover (black is also offered separately) and mounted directly to the body rather than height-adjusted via screws into the ring, so setup is straightforward once it’s in.
- Neck position, Les Paul spacing, cream cover
- Two calibrated Dun-Aged Alnico II bar magnets, south polarity
- Hand-fabricated bobbin, wire, and flatback tape construction
- DC resistance: 8.10K ohms | Inductance: 6.85 henries | Q: 2.84
- Mounted to body (no height adjustment screws)
If you want the low-fi bark and vintage grit of an original P-90 without hunting down a fifty-year-old guitar to get it, this is the pickup to drop in.
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