Description
Great set of pickups from UK winder Sunbear. I'm playing through a navigater les paul, ibanez metal screamer pedal, hughes and kettner rotosphere and a JTM45 replica with a clestion 100 alnico speaker in a 1 x 12: lazy J cab.
from their website:
https://www.sunbearpickups.com/products/kz57-sbpaf-humbucker
As seen in Guitarist Magazine issue 536 May 2026. The KZ57 SBPAF is the latest addition to my highly detailed PAF replication offerings! Based around the wind style of the earliest Geo Stevens winder used during PAF production in Kalamazoo. Wind specs from turns per layer, coil build, tension etc all taken from unwinding original pickups produced during the golden era, then mixed with a few tweaks that aid in compensating for today’s more consistently produced coil wire (no need for costly NOS vintage wire as a result!). These earliest PAF coils have a uniquely “fluffy” low tension coil with a fuller bobbin produced with equivalent number of turns than those production the machines that superseded this style.