PAF Pickup Secrets: PAF Bobbins, Slugs and Covers - How it's Made
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- PAF humbucker guitar pickups. How were the parts made? Jon Gundry shows historical ThroBak video footage of ThroBak repro PAF pickup bobbins, slugs and covers being reproduced with vintage correct tooling and machines and processes. www.throbak.co...
Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail screen footage of the ThroBak PAF reproduction bobbin mold being tooled in 2009. In addition, footage and details of PAF repro slug poles being made are discussed. Also shown is footage of ThroBak PAF repro covers being ground and buffed with vintage accurate techniques to assure the proper vintage look after plating.
Footage also includes historic photos if the Dean Markley string winding machines used to produce their classic strings in Michigan. Included is a photo of the first automated machine designed to put the ball end on a guitar string.
Bonus performance of Anson Funderburgh and Little Charley Baty. Nashville session player and guitar player for Bob Seeger is also shown trying his new ThroBak KZ-90 P90 reproduction bridge pickup during a visit to the ThroBak shop while in Grand Rapids, Michigan on tour with Bob Seeger.
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A joy to see those 2 old buggers :-)
Incredible to see the covers being buffed in those molds and the companies connection to the originals. I’ll have to watch this a few more times.
Fascinating indeed
Very, very cool. Thanks for keeping it alive.
Great video!!! I always wondered about the mold!
Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets with Sam Myers use to played the same clubs in So. Texas I played back in the `80's. There was kinda two camps back then... the purists like Jimmy Vaughn and all the guys at the Continental Club and then Antones..and then guys who wanted to be like Stevie..
Y'all have really done something great here. I really can't express enough how grateful I am to have y'all doing what you're doing. I have my new 50s style wiring harness strapped up to my Gibson Flying V, and I gotta tell ya, it has never sounded as good as it does now. I want to mention that part of that is because I had him wire it up in a style that matches the layout of the original V's, but it's also because it was a huge upgrade from the cheap stuff stuck in there. It's much more responsive, and of course there is MUCH more treble retained by turning down the tone pot. The tone pot is MUCH more usable now, all the way down to the ground. The luthier said he wasn't much of a V guy, but said "that's the best sounding Flying V I've ever heard." Can't wait to stick your pickups in it when I save enough. Cheers!
Keep making the videos. Fantastic.
I think the JBL voice coils were wound on that machine in Burbank. I worked for JBL back in the late 80's. I remember that the voice coils were wound off-site. They were first in So. Glendale down by Dodger Stadium before moving to No. Hollywood and then to Northridge where they still are.
First again! Love your videos Jon, they really bring useful and interesting info.
Liked and subscribed! Really great video! ❤️
I've got a 1989 Panasonic VHS camera if you need it. 8mm camera too.
hello ThroBak! loving the channel so far. ( i am new to it). What would you recommend for a 59 les paul? I have Seth Lover PAF seymor Duncans in it at the moment. I find they are nice - but i had to remove the pole pieces in the neck to get a sound i like. I do think it sounds nice, but missing something (obviously not referring to the pole pieces). I would post a picture of the guitar (a ghost build by an American guitar maker.) but I don't think I can post it here? Thanks so much and thanks for the videos!
P.S i tried the Page tele with strings through the body, and it was a really different guitar! leave it to Page to give us a two for one tele. USA01212
thanks guys, promise not to leave you a short story every time!
The ThroBak SLE-101 Plus set is a popular choice for a ‘59 era unoriented A5 tone. Compared to the Seth Lovers the SLE-101 Plus will have crisper low end in the neck pickup in particular. The Plus set has a balanced and slightly mid dominant tone with good output in the bridge for leads.
Does the bullseye pattern on the slugs affect the tone/sound at all or is it only a cosmetic thing?
It’s a cosmetic detail that is consistent with vintage P.A.F.’s but tonally I doubt it makes a difference.
@@ThroBakChannel thanks for the info!