Description
Pete Thorn had a problem: most two-humbucker guitars sounded great through a cranked, dirty amp, but fell apart the moment he backed off the gain. Neck and middle positions turned to mush, and switching to a single-coil guitar mid-set felt like landing on a different planet tonally. He brought that frustration to Suhr, and the Thornbucker is the answer — a humbucker engineered to deliver the touch-sensitivity, articulation, and chime of a genuinely great early 50’s “patent applied for” pickup, but with the consistency you only get from a builder obsessing over every variable.
Getting there wasn’t guesswork. Suhr ran through magnet types, wire gauges, cover materials, and coil winds, building prototype after prototype and comparing them against benchmark vintage examples until the formula clicked. What came out the other side is a pickup that stays clear and dynamic at low gain, holds together in the middle position, and still growls convincingly once you dig in or hit the gain switch. Four-conductor wiring is included as standard, opening up coil-splitting and series/parallel wiring options that the original PAF-style designs never offered.
This listing is the bridge unit, 53mm spacing, finished in White.
- Position: Bridge
- Magnet: Alnico IV
- DC Resistance: 8.4KΩ
- Wire: Plain Enamel
- Hook-up Wire: 4-Conductor
- Spacing: 53mm
- Finish: White
Also available in Black, Parchment, Zebra, and Reversed Zebra to match neck pickups or pickguard colors.
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