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Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF HUMBUCKERS...
THE LEGACY CONTINUES
The PAF -
Buck the Hum and Buck the BS!
When it comes to
what makes PAF’s, PAF’s… some guys go on and on
about cosmetic matters such as “tooling marks”
and other such nonsense. That’s basically just
smoke and mirrors. If you know anything about
how pickups actually work, its all about
magnetic induction - and then how the pickups
interpret that information, and then how that
signal gets sent to your amplifier. That’s what
makes a PAF Humbucker pickup sound as it should.
Most pickup makers are only seemingly concerned
about making pickups that look like PAFs, of
course
Tom Doyle's TRU-CLONES PAFs look like the real
thing, but more importantly
they have that elusive authentic tone that only
comes from a true understanding of this
exclusive, very specific
formula and proper building technique. Our
Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF pickups are
meant to be Vintage correct in how they look and
feel, certainly… However, we don’t spend a whole lot
of time on things like tooling marks, and
circles inside of squares, etc, etc. That stuff brings
absolutely nothing to the party… we assure you!
We are not trying to fool anyone that these
pickups are the actual original ’57 through ’59 PAF pickups. They are not meant as an attempt to
be a counterfeit product, hence you will not see
the “Patent Applied For” sticker on the back of
Tom’s pickups… just his proud maker’s mark.
There’s an
actual science to why those old PAF pickups
sound as they do… and sure a little “black art”
and mojo get thrown in for good measure. What we spend our time creating here is all
about understanding electronic and magnetic
induction, transduction, proper magnetism and
flux field, improving the signal-to-noise ratio, vibrational resonance, current flow, and of
course… all of that equals tone. Oh that sweet,
sweet tone… the one that’s in your head, and on
that favorite album you grew up listening to. We
get it… after all, Tom was there! He has enough
stories to fill ten books. You should hear the
one about Les dragging Tom into NYC back in ’69
to meet these guys that were recording their 2nd
album. Turned out to be some young guys calling
themselves ‘Led Zeppelin’ or some such! Tom had
already been working with Les for 7+ years at
that time.
Tom has handled
and worked on countless early Kalamazoo Gibson pickups with
Les Paul right there at his side. Tom and Les
took them apart, put them back together, reverse
engineered them, experimented on them, installed
them in countless guitars, rewound them, added
stuff, took stuff away, compared them, and
explored the innumerable variables that made
these humbucker pickups sound the way they do.
They changed the magnets, degaussed them, added
copper winding wire and took some off, changed
the pots and caps, switches, signal paths, etc,
etc… All in the interest of chasing that elusive
balance, signal, and “perfect tone”. Tom has
been making custom hand-made pickups since the
mid 70's... way before it was "the thing to do"
or cool, or trendy. Hell... even before most of
today's pickup makers were out of junior high
school, for that matter!
Now all of that
knowledge, experience, understanding, and
decades of hands-on with “The Master” is
available to you in these amazing PAF
reproduction humbucker pickups. Our Limited
Edition Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF '57
Humbuckers...
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Tom
Doyle was Les Paul's personal guitar tech, luthier, co-inventor,
soundman, confidant, and "fixer" for 45
years... right up until the time of
Les' passing. Suffice it to say that all
that time at the side of "The Master"
has given Tom the experience and know
how that no one else on the entire
planet can possibly have. He and Les
Paul worked together refining and
redefining what an electric guitar could
and should sound like... a true labor of
love that still lasts till this day. Now
you can have a piece of that history. Many
have come along and attempted to recreate the sound, look, feel,
and tone of the famous '57 PAF Humbucker that is "the sound" in
every tone chasers head throughout the world... and some have
come close, others not so close. However, none have had the
first hand knowledge, the actual day-to-day first person
experience and the hands on background that Tom Doyle has. Tom
is nothing less than a walking, talking historical encyclopedia
of all things Les Paul, guitars, electronics, sound, and
musical history from the last 50+ years... from the artists to the
instruments, to the gear they were using, to the experiments
they tried, and everything in between! Tom has been called "The
Luthier to the Stars".
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These pickups are hand made, one at a
time in the
USA with the very best & highest quality
vintage correct components available.
Get yours now... Supplies will be
limited.
OWN A PIECE OF
THE LEGACY... |
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When you get a set of these Limited Edition
Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF '57 Humbuckers... Your
Tone Quest just might be over!
These Vintage '57 PAF Humbucker Pickups
are spot on Vintage recreations of the
originals... Undeniable '57 PAF
reproductions
in every single way. Cosmetically of
course – with all the proper Vintage
components, electronics, all of it...
The vintage 42 gauge wire, the butyrate
bobbins, the nickel silver base plates,
the maple spacers, the degaussed long cast
magnets, the proper vintage screws, the unpotted nickel covers, etc, etc... and
with all the punch, bloom, articulation,
tone, and control that the original late
50's Kalamazoo
pickups had in those famous Les Paul
Bursts... and maybe just a little more!
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