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Seymour Duncan Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Duncan Custom
Seymour Duncan releases hand-wound replica of an OG humbucker from the dawn of the high-gain era

By Jonathan Horsley Published

This 50th Anniversary release sees the Duncan Custom reverse-engineered and offered as a signed, limited edition set with a hand-wound '59 neck humbucker

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Seymour Duncan Mortal-Coil Multi-Voice Humbuckers
Seymour Duncan unveils MortalCoil active humbucker set – will it dethrone Fishman as metal’s state-of-the-art pickup?

By Jonathan Horsley Published

NAMM 2026: A serious upgrade to any high-performance electric guitar, Seymour Duncan promises a super-fast attack, clarity even when the gain is dimed – and hey, there's a single-coil voicing too

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Slash wears a top hat and plays a Gibson SG live with Guns N' Roses, with pink and blue lights in the background.
“The SG that I had at the Ozzy gig, that guitar needed a louder pickup but I still wanted that true-to-life guitar sound that I like”: Slash and Seymour Duncan dial up the raunch with the Guns N’ Roses legend’s signature 3.0 humbuckers

By Jonathan Horsley Published

NAMM 2026: Hand-wired in Santa Barbara, they're not just for Les Pauls or SGs. Slash has one in his BC Rich Mockingbird – and they'd work a treat in a hotrodded S-style

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Adrian Belew with the Fender Stratocaster that he and Seymour Duncan relic'd in the back garden
Adrian Belew on how he and Seymour Duncan made one of the first relic’d guitars

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The prog guitar icon has posted new pics taken by Seymour Duncan that show off their handiwork as they turned Belew's new Strat into a relic and started guitar's most controversial trend

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Seymour Duncan JB Jr.: the iconic high-output humbucker has been designed for the single-coil pickup sized routing of the Telecaster's bridge position.
“The legendary JB tone, now reimagined for Telecasters”: Seymour Duncan might just have dropped this year’s must-have Tele mod

By Jonathan Horsley Published

One of the greatest rock humbuckers of all all-time, slimmed down to single-coil size to drop into your Tele's bridge position. Meet the JB Jr For Tele

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The Seymour Duncan Joe Bonamassa Bolin Burst Signature Pickup Set replicates the same humbuckers that are in the blues superstar's 1960 Les Paul Standard once owned by Tommy Bolin.
Seymour Duncan expands Joe Bonamassa range with humbucker set based on pickups from his ‘Bolin Burst’ Les Paul

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Like JoBo says, got a cheap Les Paul? Give it a high-end power-up with a pair of replica humbuckers from his iconic Bolin Burst, fresh out the custom shop – and the first 500 sets come signed

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Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel plays a custom Marshall stack Jackson guitar while David St Hubbins sticks to the classic Les Paul in this live pic from 1992.
Seymour Duncan celebrates Spinal Tap sequel with custom pickup that has an “eye-watering” 111K DCR

By Jonathan Horsley Published

But what will this monster one-off pickup sound like – and will we ever see it in production?

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Seymour Duncan Jazzmaster Silencer Pickups: these aftermarket pickups feature a patent-pending triple-coil design and are drop-in replacements for any standard Jazzmaster pickup.
Seymour Duncan unveils the Jazzmaster Silencer, drop-in pickups to soup-up your offset

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Step on that fuzz pedal and fear not about the the noise thanks to Seymour Duncan's patent-pending triple-coil design. The Jazzmaster Silencer is offered in Vintage and high-output Hot editions

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A still of Joe Bonamassa playing his 64 Greenburst Strat as he demos his new signature Seymour Duncan pickup set. Bonamassa wears a ballcap and a black hoodie.
Joe Bonamassa and Seymour Duncan put pre-CBS tones on the menu with “Greenburst” Strat pickup set

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The hottest mod of the year? These replicate the same gray-bottomed single-coils in the ’64 Stratocaster that stopped Bonamassa in his tracks at Norman’s Rare Guitars

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Schecter Ink Bomb C-1
Schecter’s Ink Bomb C-1 is a Seymour Duncan-equipped electric with a wholly unique finish

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Abstract expressionism runs rampant in the Schecter paint room

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