Description
Our PG Blues humbucker is designed to replicate the tones of Peter Green’s famous ’59 Les Paul (hence the name!) complete with the legendary “out of phase” tone achieved when both pickups are on.
The PG Blues humbucker set features Alnico II sand cast magnets, scatterwound bridge coils of 42AWG plain enamel wire and uniquely wound Heavy Formvar neck coils for the famous “out of phase” mid-position, when both humbuckers are on together. Vintage-correct solid nickel silver baseplates and covers, along with totally unpotted coils, all add to the vowel-like vocal delivery, bright yet sweet highs, warm bass and trademark “out of phase” tone.
Individually, the bridge humbucker is pure ’59 PAF in tone with all the touch sensitive response you would expect from unpotted coils. The PG Blues neck humbucker, although wound out of phase with the bridge, retains a wonderful pure and fat tone of its own both, clean and with overdrive.
The bridge and neck humbuckers in this set are wound permanently out of phase with each other and are suitable for all solid-body, semi-acoustic and hollow-body guitars; any guitar that would benefit from a warmer, brighter vintage voice; players who specifically want that famous out of phase in-between tone.
From haunting ambient lead lines and delicate chording to all-out blues rock, the PG Blues humbuckers are for players looking for authentic vintage tone with a unique edge.
Get your tone in shape!
Features
- Perfect for Blues, Jazz, Country, Funk, Reggae, Britpop and Classic Rock.
- Aged Nickel Covers
- Aged Nickel Pole screws
- Includes Rotosound Roto yellows 10-46, coaster, registration with serial number and guitar pick
- 50mm pole spacing
- 4 Conductor
- Alnico 2 magnets
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Bridge Pickup: 7.9 Kohm resistance
- Neck Pickup: 7.4 Kohm resistance
- Handwound in the UK
Item shown: Bare Knuckle The Mule Humbucker Pickup Set – Nickel
Model #: PGBLUESET-ANK
UPC: 746760484567
cjones –
I put a set of these in a Heritage 150 Les Paul that I was setting up as my own ‘Greenie’. They are fabulous pickups in their own right, even without the middle position out-of-phase thing. You can read quite a bit online about the lengths that Tim at BKP went to getting the specs of the rebuilt neck PAF in PG’s old ’59 just right, and that Gary Moore took two sets after telling Tim he’d ‘nailed it’.
drchevalier (verified owner) –
After a conversation with Padraig at Solo Guitars, I decided to go with a set of these to enliven an old PRS Custom 22 that I bought used in 1994. The original owner had put a set of PRS Dragons in it, and while they are a fine pickup, the guitar was just too wooly to make me want to pick it up regularly. The PG Blues went in without a problem, even taking into account the old PRS rotary pickup selector. The tone is open and not wooly with a wide range of options via the rotary selector. The sound is great without being overly hot, as I do not care for super hot pickups, making the guitar suitable for all different kinds of music. Very pleased and will use Bare Knuckle pickups again in a different guitar.
James McCarty (verified owner) –
I’ve loved the Peter a green sound since I first heard it.
And after a couple months of research I decided on the bare knuckle PG blues, not only do they cover the PG sound but the true PAF sound as well.
The big thing that did it for me was NOT losing volume when switching to the middle position, the BK PG blues will take anything you throw at them and stay clear an articulate, they are also very touch responsive, hit’em soft an they are sweet and smooth and warm, hit’em hard an the cut through with a nice bite.
Hands down, I’d spend the money on these again.
Bare knuckle set a benchmark that will be insanely hard to beat.