Golden Age Overwound Humbuckers

As I was in the midst of buying knobs, screws, switches, tuners, etc. for a project guitar I was putting together early this year, I came across the Golden Age Overwound set. I hadn’t really given much thought to the pickups I was going to use, but for the price, I couldn’t really say no. I got the chrome covered set; they hold their own against a myriad of other pickups I have (Gibson, Duncan, DiMarzio, Bare Knuckle) that cost up to 3x as much. I am very impressed with the quality, clarity, and value of these pickups, and will definitely invest in another set very soon.

I installed the regular GGs (8K & 9K) in one of my builds and they sounded fantastic, so I decided to replace the ancient DiMarzios in my old Gibson Les Paul with them, but mistakenly purchased the over-wounds instead. The bridge pup was OK, but the neck one sounded like a mess, plus both of them exhibited such otherworldly attack that I had to bury them below their rings to counteract the effect. I had never heard a pick-up doing that before. I'm all for attack, but in the case of these pups, it is too percussive to the point of wrong. The other thing is the matte finish which looks weird (my other set has metal covers.) I really wanted to love these as much I did the originals, but I guess 12K and 43# wire is not for me or my set-up. Also, I don't understand why it's called a set if both pups are identical, physically and spec-wise.

I purchased the neck pickup to install in a build of mine and it sounds superb.

Replaced my Seymour Duncan super distortions with these over wound and I love them! Much more control with the volume knob now! Try them! You will not be disappointed!

Nice pickup. Quality and performance. Thanks!!!

Good product. A bit on the hyper side compared to a pair of 59's.

I bought this to replace a George Lynch Screamin Demon pickup that just never agreed with me. This is what my Jackson needed. Sounds great.

Good sound good control will be getting matching neck pickup soon

i bought these on special to put into an epiphone Les Paul but they ended up in a Les Paul studio. who do i send my medical bills to as they are absolute ball tearing pickups & i am now in need of an operation. love them swapped the bridge pickup over to an original humbucker but swapped it back to the Golden age pickup after 30 mins as they give a better balanced sound.

Got the tone I have been looking for ,Going to add a coil tap switch and treble bleed circuit as soon as the parts arrive. After test driving all the electric guitars I have been wanting all my life I finally got to the point where I could afford any of them but the manufacturers have lost sight and identity and I just got tired of trying to find my dream guitar. Bought an Epiphone SG and put these pickups in and couldn't be happier . Still have lots of money left for other things.