“Every metal component – from the silver-nickel covers and baseplates to the screws and springs – has been expertly aged”: Gibson cooks up “holy grail” PAF mojo with the 1959 Humbucker Collector’s Edition Series 3 – the ultimate Les Paul tone hack?

Gibson 1959 Humbucker Collector’s Edition Series 3: these Murphy Lab aged PAF replicas are limited to just 1000 units worldwide and ship in a brown pink fur-lined Lifton case just like the guitars.

Gibson has unveiled a meticulously aged Murphy Lab replica set of its era-defining ‘Patent Applied For’ humbuckers, shipping them in a custom brown Lifton case – just like the guitars – and promising holy grail tone from its late ‘50s golden era.

The 1959 Humbucker Collector’s Edition Series 3 are not the first electric guitar pickups to replicate the PAF. There is no reliable data on such things, but Seth Lover’s original design has to be one of, if not the most, copied pickup design in history – it is the O.G. classic humbucker.