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Post by chrispope on Feb 2, 2006 11:51:01 GMT -7
I know it is a dumb question, but....?
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Post by johnnyl on Feb 2, 2006 12:31:40 GMT -7
Here ya go chris..
P.A.F. or just PAF is a famous first in the world humbucker guitar pickup, invented by Seth Lover in 1955 as an engineer for Gibson and started to be used in mass production guitars in about 1956 or 1957. The strange name of pickup wasn't intentional. Gibson and Seth Lover filed a patent on June 22, 1955. After that, first produced Les Pauls had new pickups with a sticker on a bottom plate of a pickup that said Patent Applied For. A patent was issued on July 28, 1959. Since it took more than 4 years to get a patent number, the unnamed pickup had been dubbed "PAF" by lots of guitarists in the meantime. Even after getting the patent (U.S. Patent 2,896,491), Gibson printed the wrong number on some PAF stickers: most humbuckers were labelled with U.S. Patent 2,737,842 until 1962. The number shown on the pickup is actually a patent for a Gibson trapeze tailpiece bridge, not a pickup at all. Both true PAFs and incorrect patent marked PAFs are pretty rare today and make an expensive vintage collectors' item. PAF pickups can be usually identified by their look: they have two internal coil bobbins under a 1.5" x 2.75" metal cover with one bobbin having a row of six adjustable pole pieces, with the other bobbin having non-adjustable pole pieces. Standard PAF pickups had 5000 turns of wire on a bobbin and impedance of 7.5k ohms.
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Post by Curt on Feb 2, 2006 12:32:26 GMT -7
I know it is a dumb question, but....? P atent A pplied F or
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Post by John on Feb 2, 2006 14:32:17 GMT -7
I thought it stood for Petite Asian Female?
....oh, wait....that's another website.....never mind....forget I said anything.
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Post by tele1962 on Feb 3, 2006 9:47:07 GMT -7
Johnny, that was a really good bit of history and explanation...good job!
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Post by johnnyl on Feb 3, 2006 22:00:04 GMT -7
thanks but I kinda plagerized... wikopedia...
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