Gibson Shaw NOS Patent Number Humbucker 1980s Double Cream With Ring and Screws Knobs The non-adjustable 1-1/2" horseshoe pickup

The non-adjustable 1-1/2" horseshoe pickup with its black textured cover is original and correct for this production year — the fixed-height design that Rickenbacher used before adding adjustability in 1939

The square-shouldered cabinet and separate head format produce the balanced low-end and clear upper-mids characteristic of early-sixties blackface-adjacent Fender design

sweet midrange and clear treble that Indian rosewood approaches but does not fully replicate

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Gibson Shaw NOS Patent Number Humbucker 1980s Double Cream With Ring and Screws Knobs The non-adjustable 1-1/2" horseshoe pickupNo sales tax for US customers outside California. Tim Shaw joined Gibson in 1981 with a specific mandate: reverse engineer the original PAF humbucker. Working from original late 1950s specimens, Shaw analyzed the magnets, wire gauge, bobbin geometry, winding count, and potting method that produced the sound that players and collectors had been chasing for two decades. The resulting Shaw PAF produced from roughly 1981 through 1985 under the Patent