The Music Emporium in Lexington, MA has a brand new Collings City Limits in "Aged" Gold Lacquer with a set of ThroBak ER-Custom P.A.F. humbucking electric guitar pickups. This example has been subtly and tastefully aged in a way that makes it instantly feel like a 50 year old classic. 8.03 lbs; incredible resonance and volume when played acoustically; round, fat, articulate tones when plugged in (both overdriven and clean).
A big THANK YOU! from ThroBak to all the guitar builders that brought instruments to NAMM 2016 with ThroBak electric guitar pickups. These include Master Builder series guitars from D'Angelico, New York City; Rock N Roll Relics, San Francisco; and Collings, Austin, Texas. A hearty congratulations to all these great builders on a successful show and a great start to the new year! "Aged" Collings I-35 LC in Faded Cherry with ThroBak ER-Custom P.A.F. Humbucker pickups. Rock n Roll Relics Heartbreaker model with ThroBak vintage reproduction '55/'56-SB P90 pickups with heavily aged butyrate reproduction P90 pickup covers in Bone. D'Angelico Teardrop New Yorker with custom DA-102B ThroBak jazz pickup.
Collings Guitars of Austin, Texas brought one of their "Aged" I-35 LC guitars in a Faded Cherry finish to NAMM 2016. "Aged" Collings guitars have aged pickup covers and hardware along with a "tastefully aged" finish. This guitar has ThroBak ER-Custom P.A.F. humbucker pickups with lightly aged Nickel covers. The aged option is offered on the Collings CL, I-35, 290 and SoCo models. After the show this guitar was sent to Willies American Guitars in St. Paul, Minnesota. Serial # I35LC15739.
A single ThroBak DA-102 B floating jazz electric guitar pickup is featured in the new D'Angelico New Yorker built by Master Builder, Victor Baker who crafts these jazz guitars in Astoria, New York. The Master Builder New Yorker will be available for order at your local Guitar Center and guitarcenter.com in late February 2016.
Rock N Roll Relics Guitars with ThroBak Vintage reproduction P90 guitar pickups at Winter NAMM 20161/27/2016
ThroBak '52/'54-SB P90 electric guitar pickup set and ThroBak '55/'56-SB P90 electric guitar pickup set make their NAMM debut.Rock N Roll Relics Guitars showed two gold top Heartbreaker model electric guitars with ThroBak vintage reproduction P90 pickups at Winter NAMM 2016. The Heartbreaker model with the wrap-around bridge features ThroBak vintage reproduction '52/'54-SB P90 pickups with heavily aged butyrate reproduction P90 pickup covers in Cream. The Heartbreaker model with the stop-tail bridge features ThroBak vintage reproduction '55/'56-SB P-90 pickups with heavily aged butyrate reproduction P90 pickup covers in Bone.
D'Angelico Guitars unveils Master Builder Series.D'Angelico Guitars introduced its new line of Master Builder guitars featuring custom wound ThroBak pickups at Winter NAMM 2016. The Master Builder series are crafted in New York City and harken back to the early days of D'Angelico guitars. ThroBak is excited to have our pickups in these beautiful electric guitars. D'Angelico Guitars Master Builder NY-SS model with ThroBak PAF's.The D'Angelico Master Builder semi-hollow model NY-SS (shown above) and D'Angelico NY-DC (double-cut) both feature two custom wound ThroBak DA-101 humbuckers. These ThroBak PAF humbucker pickups are a perfect compliment to the tonal complexities available in these exceptionally made electric guitars. D'Angelico Master Builder New Yorker Jazz GuitarThe D'Angelico New Yorker jazz guitar has a custom wound ThroBak DA-102B floating mini humbucker jazz pickup that allows every inch of the carved European spruce top to be heard vividly. Shown here in Sunburst D'Angelico Master Builder New Yorker Teardrop Jazz GuitarThe D'Angelico Teardrop New Yorker jazz guitar is one of the most unique designs in guitar history. The first Teardrop was built at the request of musician Pete Girardi in 1957 who wanted a guitar that would be unique to his group, The Teardrops. The newest Teardrop New Yorker jazz guitar from D'Angelico is made in NYC and features a custom wound ThroBak DA-102B floating mini humbucker jazz pickup.
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On December 4, 1967 Jimi Hendrix threw his Flying V into an amp at a gig at the City Hall, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne after becoming frustrated with his equipment. The guitar stayed lodged in the cabinet like a giant arrow. And as Hendrix manager Chas Chandler recalled, " The audience thought it was part of the act, the amp just went ‘rmmmmm’, and from that minute nothing else went wrong. It was just one of those little magic seconds. It just altered the balance of the act and he went on to just tear the place apart.”
The ThroBak ESG-102B P.A.F. Humbucker is featured in the "New Gear" section of the Holiday 2015 issue of Guitar Player magazine on page 25. Cloned directly from a '64 SG, these PAF clones have the same snarl and bite in the bridge and acoustic depth in the neck of the original PAF pickups installed in vintage ES-335 and SG guitars of this era. If you want the period correct pickups for your early '60's ES or SG style guitars the the ESG-102B Pickups are it!
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AuthorsJon Gundry |