Stephens Design VINTAGE LAB-PG set-Peter Greend specs!

This is the second offering in my Vintage Lab PAF pickup sets, these are wound to Peter Green specs, and include the flipped magnet, and engineered to sound good with neck pickup flipped around as his was. This is a hotter set than the stock VL set, bridge at 8.6K, neck at 8.2K, both alnico 5. These are a little darker due to extra winds, but certainly are full of bite and harmonics galore. I am using the neck adjusted the same way Peter did, with the bass side of the neck slightly below the ring and treble side slightly up over the edge of the ring, as seen in his videos here on YouTube!

I'm using my '73 Vibrolux as usual, blackfaced and turned up for distortion, no pedals, no effects, just guitar and amp.

Please watch my other Vintage Lab video for a more average vintage type set you would find in Duane Allman's guitar etc. I also play my VL set in direct comparison to my real PAF equipped guitar so you can judge how authentic the two VL sets certainly are. Enjoy...
Dave Stephens
http://www.sdpickups.com

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[fmilktoast]

hey dave. do you know anything about what string gauges he used?

[SDPickups]

@fmilktoast No, I wish I did, string gauge is really important in figuring out what an artist's tone was. For example, early Page, he used 8 gauge which is critical to nailing his sound. Bloomfield surprisingly used very heavy strings like 12's or even 13's. If you find out let me know.

[kissyxander]

As a lifetime PG fan, you may not have captured the playing quality (no criticism, few ever have) but boy you have the guitar tone nailed. Great sounding amp too. Hats off to you.

[SDPickups]

@kissyxander Thanks. You need the right amp for Peter Green tones too, if you watch all the available YouTube videos of him playing you only see Fender amps that use 6L6 power tubes. Michael Bloomfield also used Fender 6L6 powered amps, my Vibrolux fits right in that groove.

[JakeHoyle92]

Is that a Stellar guitar? If so, what is your opinion on it

[SDPickups]

@JakeHoyle92 Yes its a Stellar. Its not a bad guitar for the money, I'm not sure they're making them like this one anymore. You really need to removed the pickups and the complete wiring harness because they are all very substandard garbage. I have completely rewired mine to authentic 50's wiring with NOS bee caps, new pots, the whole deal. Any VL PAF set needs a 50's repro harness to go into, no matter how expensive your guitar is, the harness is part of the tone too....

[SDPickups]

@Slammintone Yes you could. You might also take a look at the VL59JP set, as it is somewhat similar and designed with similar hot wind but neck is purposed for playing the right way around with really nice clarity for a hot neck....

[Slammintone]

Can I get this set with the magnet flipped normally in the neck position, like a regular in phase set? I think they would be wonderful. Thanks!

[SDPickups]

@blackjerryboymetal You need to do better research ;-) He never flipped the magnet but the magnet IS flipped. Buy the Les Paul Handbook by Paul Balmer. Joel Dantzig founder of Hamer guitars took the pickups out of their cavities and found the neck pickup magnetic polarity IS backwards. This is documented and photographed in the book. Few pickup makers know this. Turning a pickup backwards does not change phase, try it. Some PAF's accidentally had flipped magnets, not uncommon at all...

[SDPickups]

No. If you flip the magnet the pickups will be out of phase no matter which direction the pickup is facing. With the neck pickup having the screws face the bridge, the brighter slug coil is hearing the strings closer to the neck, so you get a noticeably different tone by itself. You can wire the pickups out of phase but it won't sound quite the same.