Drive your amplifier and cut through the mix with the Golden Age Overwound Humbucker for bridge position. Engineered with extra coil windings for increased output, this pickup provides the aggressive mid-range punch and added sustain necessary for rock, blues, and heavy playing styles. Finished with a classic gold cover, it offers a sophisticated vintage look while delivering the modern, high-output performance that today's guitarists demand. A versatile choice for balancing output in custom builds, upgrading factory-standard instruments, or adding authority to your bridge-position lead tone.
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Brand: Golden Age
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Type: Overwound Humbucker Pickup (Bridge Position)
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Finish: Gold Cover
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Output: Overwound (Higher output for increased bite, sustain, and mid-range focus)
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Ideal for: Custom guitar builds, gold hardware aesthetic upgrades, high-performance replacements, and players seeking a hot, punchy bridge tone.
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)
