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Seymour Duncan Antiquity Tele Bridge Pickup - Black Unaged
If you want it done just like in the old days, the Seymour Duncan Antiquity Retrospec'd (un-aged) Tele Bridge pickup is your ticket to authentic vintage tone...without the smell of old cigarette smoke. Just like the original -- which was derived from Fender's Pedal Steel guitars -- the Duncan Antiquity bridge is scatter-wound and uses non-staggered Alnico II magnets for a sweeter high end and a little "give" when you dig in.
What is scatter winding? With a machine wound pickup, wire is automatically fed onto the spinning pickup bobbin in straight even layers. It's fast and efficient. But parallel wires carrying a current (guitar signal) can induce capacitance in the wires, which attenuates high frequencies and can make the pickup sound less lively. With a hand wound pickup, the operator feeds the wires onto the bobbin in more of a random pattern, and often a more loosely packed coil. The wrapping pattern of the wire is "scattered" and not neatly lined up. The lack of tightly stacked parallel wires reduces the capacitance effect, and the pickup will sound a little brighter and more airy. Back in the day scatter winding was a result of picking winding being mostly manual, and not an intentional practice to create the best tone. As pickup builders like Seymour Duncan unlocked some the magic of vintage pickups, scatter winding became a feature and not a bug.
In the words of Seymour Duncan....
The Antiquity Tele Lead will give you that early-’50s Tele tone, but with the high end sweetened by the custom-calibrated, hand-ground Alnico 2 rod magnets. What you get is the classic Tele twang and snap, but with a treble response that is bright but never piercing.
Like the originals, the ferrous bottom plates are not wax potted for that classic Telecaster tone that’s just on the verge of feedback. Each pickup is hand-fabricated and scatter-wound in our Custom ShopWe use vintage-style push-back cloth wire, a custom-aged, deep-drawn cover for neck models, and all Antiquity Tele vintage Telecaster pickups are lacquered and potted in lamp black paraffin wax, just like they were in the ’50s.