Description
Seth Lover’s original PAF humbucker gets the relic treatment here, right down to the gold cover, which takes Seymour Duncan’s aging process beautifully and looks like it’s survived four or five decades of gigging. This isn’t a generic distressed finish — every Antiquity pickup is built one at a time in the dedicated Antiquity room, with its own natural variance in DC resistance and character, then signed on the magnet and bottom plate to confirm it’s the real deal.
- Plain enamel wire wound around butyrate bobbins
- Alnico II bar magnet (de-gaussed) with a wooden spacer for that airy, vintage feel
- Black paper tape and vintage-style single-conductor cable
- Long-legged nickel-silver bottom plate
- Not wax-potted, preserving the slightly microphonic, honky vintage voice
- Includes a front-tapered mounting ring and matching screws
Sonically, expect the classic PAF signature: warm, full-bodied, and mellow with a bright top end and smooth, unforced sustain, all at a relatively low output. It’s a pickup built for vintage-minded players chasing that pre-CBS-era warmth on brighter-toned guitars — think warm mahogany bodies or maple tops that could use some low-end restraint. Because it’s voiced for that classic dynamic range, it’s best kept away from ultra-high-gain tube amps over 50 watts, where it can lose composure.
Specs: DC resistance (neck) 7.8k Ohms, inductance (neck) 4.22 Henries, Alnico II magnet.
If you want a guitar that not only sounds like it’s lived a life, but looks the part too, this gold-covered Antiquity neck humbucker delivers both in one hand-signed package.
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