Description
Slash has owned dozens of guitars over the years, but nearly everything he’s recorded since 1986 has come from one specific Les Paul. The APH-2S was built to bottle that instrument’s tone and pour it into his other, stage-ready Les Pauls – so the guitars he plays live sound like the one immortalized on tape.
Underneath, it’s the same Alnico 2 magnet formula as Seymour Duncan’s standard APH-1 Alnico II Pro, but the winding here is dialed in with a touch more output – enough to nudge a stock Les Paul into that sustained, slightly snarling territory Slash is known for. Seymour Duncan also carried over several details from the actual pickups in his ’86 guitar: single-conductor cable, a long-legged baseplate, and a wooden spacer. It’s the same unit found in current Gibson Slash model Les Pauls, and about as close as you can get to the source without borrowing his guitar.
- Warm, moderate-output humbucker suited to blues, classic rock, and jazz
- Alnico 2 magnet for smooth top end and singing sustain
- Single-conductor wiring, long-legged baseplate, wooden spacer
This set pairs a reverse zebra bobbin in the bridge with a standard zebra bobbin in the neck – matching the configuration on Slash’s own recording guitar. While it’s a natural fit in a Les Paul, it’ll perform just as well in any balanced humbucker-loaded solidbody, and works nicely in hollow and semi-hollow guitars too. For players chasing that specific crunch-into-sustain sound, or just want their rig to genuinely match the record, this is the pickup set to build around.
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