Command your lead tone with the Golden Age Overwound Bridge Humbucker. Featuring exposed black coils for a sleek, modern look, this pickup is engineered with extra windings to deliver the hot, aggressive output needed to push your amp into thick saturation. It offers excellent mid-range punch, tight low-end response, and long-lasting sustain—perfect for cutting through a mix in live and studio settings. Whether you are building a custom rock machine or giving a factory instrument a high-performance bridge upgrade, this pickup provides the raw power and reliable electronics quality that define the Golden Age series.
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Brand: Golden Age
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Type: Overwound Humbucker Pickup (Bridge Position)
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Aesthetic: Exposed Black Coils
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Output: Overwound (Increased output for added punch, bite, and sustain)
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Ideal for: Custom guitar builds, sleek black aesthetic upgrades, rock/hard rock playing, and players seeking a high-output bridge position voice.
The overwound versions of our classic Golden Age Humbuckers! The same Alnico 5 magnets, but overwound to 12K ohms for high output, powerful midrange and driving tone.
The AWG43 coils are wound on fabric-taped bobbins, mounted on a brass baseplate, and wax-potted for microphonic suppression.
The output wire is 4-conductor plus ground, enabling versatile custom coil-tapping, series/parallel, and phase switching options. 12K ohms. Bridge model polepieces have 2.015" spread; neck models have 1.97" spread. Mounting screws, springs and wiring diagrams included.
Inspired by great guitar pickups of the 50s!
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Alnico 5 magnets (aluminum/nickel/cobalt) as used in the originals, for classic tone.
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Vintage dimensions for easy installation in standard pickguards and bodies.
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Wax-potted for microphonic suppression.
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Wiring diagrams included with each pickup.
Length: 2.75" (69.85mm)
Width: 1.5" (38.10mm)
Height including mounting tabs, bridge pickup: .840" (21.34mm)
Golden Age® is a registered trademark of Stewart-MacDonald Manufacturing Company, Inc.
