Thicken up your neck-position tone with the Golden Age Overwound Humbucker. Featuring an aggressive black exposed coil aesthetic, this pickup combines a modern, stripped-down look with extra coil windings that deliver increased output, rich mid-range warmth, and smooth, singing sustain. It is engineered to give you a fatter, more powerful lead and rhythm voice without sacrificing articulation. Whether you are completing a custom build or upgrading your current instrument's neck electronics for greater punch, this pickup provides the reliable, professional-grade performance you need.
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Brand: Golden Age
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Type: Overwound Humbucker Pickup (Neck Position)
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Aesthetic: Exposed Black Coils
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Output: Overwound (Higher output for increased warmth, fat mids, and smooth sustain)
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Ideal for: Custom guitar builds, sleek black hardware aesthetic upgrades, blues/rock players, and anyone seeking a fatter, higher-output neck humbucker 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)
