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Top Shelf Custom

$115 - $280 (Pricing varies depending on options chosen)

Looking for PAF's that ring like a bell?

These do and they have crystal clear vintage tone.

Low output vintage PAF tone at it's purest.

These are non-potted low output 7.2k 7.4k

Crafted using butyrate bobbins, maple spacers, our special custom spec cast alnico magnets, custom covers and baseplates. In order to use specific alloys the slugs, keeper bar, and pole screws were all custom manufactured. Specially selected plain enamel wire sorted from many spools to find wire of a specific diameter and ohms per foot.

Over the past 8-9 years we've been experimenting with alnico. Adjusting raw materials and even adding materials not typically used in the production of alnico in an effort to simulate impure raw materials like used in the 1950's. After years of testing and thousands of magnets we've settled on what we call for lack of a better description "custom alnico" since it doesn't correspond to any standard grade. It's a fairly weak magnet somewhat similar to alnico 3.

The result is a PAF pickup with an almost single coil sound and lacks the compression found in other grades of alnico. Due to it's low strength sustain and "bloom" is pronounced. Very much a vintage sounding pickup when combined with low wind count coils. Listen to the "Top Shelf Custom" pickups on the Doug & Pat show #6 humbucker shootout and decide for yourself.

The demo on the Doug & Pat show.

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