This is a custom piece not typically sold on the Sheptone website. Built with similar aspects of the AB Custom Humbucker, this pickup is wound using 1959 spec 42 Enamel wire which results in a bit thicker coil, and a higher final resistance. Same alnico 5 magnets as the Tribute set. This set will really push the amp. This set has a nice thick and warm tone, perfect for hot blues or hotter rock, and great for lighter solid body guitars. This is at the high end of output in the "Patent Applied For" range, but still clean up nicely with volume control.

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.