Detail 01
Alnico II magnet
The pickup uses the same magnet type as the standard APH-1 Alnico II Pro.

Independent shopping perspective
A warm, moderate-output neck humbucker built to bring Slash’s recorded Les Paul tone to other guitars.


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What matters in use
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Detail 01
The pickup uses the same magnet type as the standard APH-1 Alnico II Pro.
Detail 02
It is wound with boosted output intended to push a stock Les Paul toward sustain and crunch.
Detail 03
These are appointments shared with the Duncan pickups in Slash’s 1986 recording guitar.
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Product questions
Straight answers to the questions shoppers most often ask about this product.
It is recommended for the neck position.
It was designed for Les Paul guitars and also works in well-balanced humbucker-equipped, hollow, and semi-hollow body guitars.
All mounting hardware is included.
It is hand built in Seymour Duncan’s Santa Barbara, California workshop.
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