PAF Pickup Secrets: What Makes a PAF Guitar Pickup a P.A.F. Pickup? Learn The Details!

PAF humbucker guitar pickups. What are the details that make a P.A.F. guitar pickup and a great P.A.F. pickup reproduction? Learn the details that can help you spot a vintage PAF pickup and a great repro. Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail of ThroBak Electronics tell all in this epic video filled with insider P.A.F. pickup facts.

Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail take apart a ThroBak Vintage P.A.F. replica to explain the key construction and cosmetic details that are found in vintage PAF guitar pickups and the best reproductions.
Details covered in the video include.

#1. Details of the P.A.F. pickup cover explained.

#2. How to spot a vintage P.A.F. by looking at the flat back black tape protecting the coils of the guitar pickup.

#3. Close up view and discussion of P.A.F. pickup adjustable pole screws.
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#4. Details of Brass and Nickel Plated Steel bobbins mounting screws.
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#5. P.A.F. pickup start and finish wire placement and color explained.
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#6. P.A.F. guitar pickup bobbin color variation explained.

#7. P.A.F. humbucker keeper bar explained.

#8. P.A.F. Butyrate bobbin plastic explained. Learn the smell of a vintage P.A.F. bobbin!

#9. Vintage PAF guitar pickup machine coil winding explained.
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#10. Learn some of the cosmetic flaws found on vintage P.A.F. bobbins and the best repros.

#11. P.A.F. bobbin and sink marks and flare explained.

#12. PAF bobbin slugs and bullseye pattern explained.

#13. Maple spacer explained.

#14. PAF guitar pickup Alnico bar magnet grades and cosmetics explained.

#15. Alnico pickup magnet charge direction explained.

#16. PAF pickup baseplate construction, materials and cosmetics explained.

#17. Ground wire soldered to baseplate location explained as a means of identifying a vintage PAF guitar pickup.

#18. Vintage style, braided, two conductor wire explained.

#19. Coil turn count and winding machine details further explained.

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ThroBak uses 100% USA made parts in their vintage P.A.F. guitar pickup reproductions.

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