Description
The SH-1B is the bridge-position half of Seymour Duncan’s ’59 model, a humbucker designed to nail that late-1950s PAF character without the squeal. It’s a genuine chameleon pickup — clean tones come out warm but never muddy, with a crystalline top end that keeps chords defined, while pushing it into distortion gives you a full, bright growl with smooth, controlled sustain rather than harsh compression.
Under the cover you’ll find the vintage-correct recipe: plain enamel magnet wire, a long-legged bottom plate, and a single-conductor vintage-style cable, all left logo-free for that period-correct look. Unlike the SH-55 Seth Lover, the ’59 leans into slightly scooped mids and is vacuum wax potted, so you get quiet, feedback-resistant performance at stage volume without sacrificing openness.
This versatility makes it equally at home in country, jazz, blues, and funk rigs as it is in classic and heavy rock settings. Plenty of players run the ’59 in the neck paired with a hotter bridge pickup — the SH-4 JB or SH-13 Dimebucker are common partners — to stretch the tonal range of a single guitar even further.
- Vintage PAF-style humbucker voicing
- Bridge position model, black cover
- Plain enamel wire, long-legged baseplate
- Vacuum wax potted for squeal-free operation
- Vintage-style single-conductor cable, unbranded cover
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