When did Duncan introduce the Antiquity PAF?

[Disturber]

Which year did Duncan introduce the Antiquity PAF?

I tried to google this, but can't find any info. Which was the first year of the Antiquity PAF humbucker?

I have a pair from 1996, they must be fairly early I guess? They have shiny polished mags, signed by Seymour. That is kinda funny as Duncan states that the Ants are: " a faithful replica of the great sounding "patent applied for" humbuckers that Seth E. Lover designed in 1955. "

I know that they are using rough cast magnets now, just like they did in the real ones. But early on I guess they just used their standard magnets. So that does not make them a 100% faithful replica.

They sound absolutely great though, since I had the mags fully charged. I really love them. I was thinking of putting something else in this guitar, then I played it last night and went, "what am I thinking? Fool, this is tone heaven, no need to go through a lot of un-necessary buying, soldering and selling for nothing...". This set stays.

[bubs_42]

I've seen a pair from 94. I have a Neck Pickup that is my Benchmark that is in storage. They are great pickups but I find the neck pickups to be too Muddy "jazzy", but most of the bridges i've played are heavenly.

[django49]

I have some that date to around that era. Cannot recall when I got the guitars that hold them....The Humbuckers sound (and look) great in an older ES-335 (better then the Classic 57s) and another set in a "parts" guitar, replica of sorts of an early PRS. FWIW, I also have a pair of Antiquity P-90s in an Epi archtop that turned a ho-hum guitar into a faux 50's rockabilly star.

I like them a lot.

[Disturber]

Yeah, this 96 set has been love/hate. I never got enough oumph out of them. Then I tried A5's and under gaine the bridge sounded scary much like the Custom 5. Then I had A4's and it was good. I got the original magnets fully charged and put them back a while ago and now that I dialed them in these pups are super sweet. Degausing is not for me apparently. Give me full throttle or get outa here, kinda. :-)

I have Ants Texas Heats in my T62. Absolutely the best strat pups I've ever played. I have a set of Ant Firebird pups in the Eclipse. They too sound killer. And I have a neck Ant in the T51 that is smoky sweet. I really like the Ants that I've tried so far.

So, would it be most possible that 1994 was the year that Seymour Duncan released the Antiquity PAF on the market then?

[JohnnyB]

I have a guitar buddy with a great set of ears (Weber had a 12" guitar speaker to his specifications in his product line). He liked the sound of the Antiquities, but wanted more output, so he swapped in the magnets from Classic '57s with the Antiquities windings to get the sound he wanted.

I had an Epiphone Les Paul Standard, and for a nominal fee he swappd in the remaining set with Antiquities magnets and '57 Classic windings, and the result wasn't half bad either, especially since I wasn't into screaming overdrive. For clean jazz it was a really sweet combo and made that Epi hit 'way above its class, tonewise.