About Sheptone
Jeff Shepherd
started the operation after relentlessly trying to remedy the lack of tone he
experienced with other guitar pickups. An on-and-off recreational guitar player
since the age of 12, the guitars just didn’t sound the way he wanted. While
playing with a local band, he found himself on a quest for tone. He purchased a
set of 1958 Gibson PAF’s for $4000 to put in his EC-1000 and the difference was
incredible. Being the type to tinker and take things apart simply to see how
they work (much to his parents’ dismay as a child) he began to experiment with winding his own pickups. Eventually comparing them to his 1958
originals, back and forth, adjust and re-adjust, for over a year until he
finally was able to duplicate THAT tone. Since then, he has been fortunate
enough to extensively analyze over 100 vintage humbuckers to develop a
consistent recipe to produce reasonably priced
alternatives for over-priced vintage pickups.
With a lot of work, and some luck along the way, his original curiosity exploded into a full time business, with customers all over the world based on word-of-mouth alone.