Seymour Duncan announces new products for 2012- coming soon to a dealer near you!

’59 Custom Hybrid Pickup

Seymour Duncan is very engaged with their customers through many different avenues, but especially on their excellent forum. The new ’59 Custom Hybrid is a perfect example. This pickup was born from a thread on the forum in which a user had experimented with combining coils from a ’59 and a Custom and put them together to surprising results. This pickup is extremely versatile, with an Alnico 5 magnet; you get the lush vintage warmth of the ’59 with the hot crunch of the Custom. It’s very responsive to volume changes giving you the ability to go from warm vintage, mid-range growl or hot crunch.

Loaded Pickguards for Strat® featuring the Liberator

Strat® players can customize their sound and upgrade their electronics in minutes with our new series of Fully Loaded Pickguards.  The Triple Rails Pickguard is locked and loaded for those that play rock or metal using the ferocious Hot Rails for Strat® pickups.  The Classic Pickguard features a Custom Stack plus in the bridge, a Classic Stack in the middle, and a Vintage Hot in the neck, giving you the sound of a Classic Strat® and then some. The Bring Your Own Pickups Pickguard allows you to choose your pickup combination so that you can create the tone you desire. Install any combination of pickups in minutes thanks to the Liberator which is installed in the Triple Rails, Classic and Bring Your Own Pickups Pickguard and will allow you to change your pickups in minutes using only a screwdriver. The Antiquity Pickguard features an artfully aged look with true vintage tone and each is personally signed by Seymour W. Duncan.

Joe Bonamassa Signature Pickup Set from the Custom Shop

The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop has teamed up with blues-rock virtuoso Joe Bonamassa to produce the Joe Bonamassa Signature Pickup Set. This immaculately crafted and calibrated dual-humbucker set accurately replicates the P.A.F. pickups in Joe’s beloved 1959 sunburst Les Paul®. Their rich, dynamic, and nuanced voice will appeal to all tone connoisseurs who cherish the passion and power of the original humbucker.

Wound on the historic Leesona machine that created humbuckers for Gibson back in the ’50s and ’60s, the set features an Alnico 2 magnet in the neck pickup and Alnico 3 in the bridge. Period-correct butyrate bobbins, lightly antiqued nickel covers, wooden spacer, and retro-style “Bonamassa” P.A.F. stickers heighten the vintage vibe.

Only 1,959 sets will be sold worldwide and each will be hand signed by Seymour and Joe and include a special USB flash drive with the story of the making of the Joe Bonamassa Signature Pickup Set.