Tom Doyle was Les Paul's "Right Hand Man" for over 45 years - Tom was Les' very close friend, his personal guitar builder & repairman, his co-inventor, confidant, and his soundman, engineer, and show producer every Monday night for 27 years at Fat Tuesdays, then at the 2 Iridium Clubs in NYC... among many other things. Suffice it to say that two were very close and Les counted on Tom for all things guitars and sound for almost 5 decades. Most people don’t know this, but Les Paul was working very diligently in the last years of his life in an attempt to clean up the Humbucker pickup. He felt that the bottom end of the frequency response was muddy and unclear, and he fervently wanted to fix that. It seems everyone thinks that Les only had an interest in low-impedance pickups… but that is patently untrue and blatantly false.

Les had an incredible passion for making things “just right”... and would tinker, test, and experiment on things he wanted to fix, tirelessly - almost to the point of obsession. His constant passion towards the end of his life was for getting the high-impedance humbucker to come alive, and deliver that clarity that he so desired. As an homage to his long time friend and mentor, Tom Doyle and his friend Max Stavron have brought Les Paul's Dream of a clear, articulate, harmonically lively Humbucker pickup to life... READ MORE ABOUT TOM HERE
 

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Les was working tirelessly in the last 5 or 6 years of his life to create the cleanest, clearest humbucker he could - and we have all of his experimental winds, all of his notes, labels, parts, etc... piles and piles of the stuff. Tom & Max pored over all of Les' notes, analyzed all the different experiments, measured the readings on all the prototypes, and kept chugging along in the direction Les was headed. You see, Les felt that if there was obviously going to be humbuckers in the famous guitar that bore his name, then by God, he wanted them to have clarity, sharpness, and sparkle... and not have that muddy bottom end that so many double coil high-impedance humbuckers have… and we did it!

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Suffice it to say that no expenses were spared, no corners were cut, nothing was left out with regard to the quality and wind spec of these beautiful PAF Humbucker pickups that Tom & his partner Max have made as an homage to our close friend and mentor. Made with the strictest adherence to vintage detail and era correctness... Every part, piece, magnet, screw and wire, etc. is the "REAL DEAL". Nickel Silver base plates, butyrate bobbins, maple spacers, proper alloy slugs and fillister pole screws, long cast magnets that are gaussed by us, proper 42 gauge enamel coated wire, American made Vintage covers by the same manufacturer as the originals... you get the picture! Its all here...  like the Vintage Originals!

~ LES WOULD BE PROUD!  

Tom Doyle has had the experience most guitar players could only dream of, working closely with Les Paul as his right hand man, guitar tech and co-inventor for over 45 years. It was said that Tom could hear the same things tonally that Les could and this ability has led to a set of PAF pickups that carry on the legacy of Mr. Les Paul. In the last few years of Les’ life, he never stopped in his pursuit to create a humbucker that was clean, clear and articulate. Les always loved the rich tone of a high impedance PAF but modern recreations always had too much mud for his taste. Now, thanks to detailed notes and prototypes passed from Les to Tom, TRU-CLONES PAF Humbuckers produce all the sonic qualities that Tom Doyle is certain his mentor and friend would have wanted in his own guitar. Sparing no expense, Doyle Coils are hand-made and custom wound entirely in the USA using a special recipe that has taken years to develop.