General Vintage Tone 1959 PAF humbucker set Hand wound Peter green

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This the legend Tones of Peter Green , for Vintage Les pauls , the legend Burst out phase tones !

The Paf made with the best parts and true vintage correct specs by General Vintage Tone.


Everyone who knows about Peter Green as a guitarist knows about his famous “PG Mod” out of phase tone. While not very well accepted by the general population of guitarists, anyone who is a fan of Peter Green is interested in the unique tone.

But, I often ask myself, “What if Peter had a typical Les Paul that didn’t have the necessary resonance and sustain needed to pull off the out of phase tone properly?” What then? Well, I suspect there would be no Peter Green out of phase tone to be chasing! Let me explain…

Having been totally into the out of phase tone since I first heard Peter play it (Merry Go ‘Round on the Dog & Dustbin album), I was able to finally have my first experience with it in 1971. A good friend of mine, Peter Montagna, was lucky enough to have a dad who was into woodworking. Somehow, Peter found out about how to get the out of phase tone by manipulating a magnet in one of the humbucking pickups. I didn’t have a Les Paul at the time (I was using an SG), so we decided it would be best to get the Peter Green tone from an actual Les Paul. So, we headed to 48th St. in Manhattan on a quest to find a Les Paul.

Of course, original 50’s Les Pauls were scarce, and I probably wouldn’t have been able to afford one anyway, but there was hope because of Gibson’s recent decision to make “real” Les Pauls again in 1968. We found one of them, a P90 Goldtop, at We Buy, where I traded my SG and some cash for the guitar. Since Peter’s dad had all the necessary equipment to route the guitar for humbuckers, that wasn’t an issue. After doing the deal at We Buy, we went across the street to Manny’s and bought a set of humbuckers. To make a long story short, when the guitar was ready, there it was – perfect Peter Green out of phase tone! I thought, “well, that was easy,” and just assumed that I could get that tone from any Les Paul going forward. That turned out to be a very bad assumption.


Peter and I went through the procedure to open up the neck pickup and flip the magnet. Great excitement in the air as I fired up my blackface Twin Reverb and starting playing some Peter Green licks out of phase. The result was total shock! The guitar sounded like crap. Out of phase was thin and weak, and there was no sustain at all. I just couldn’t believe it. What the heck was wrong? I was totally bummed, and more bummed when I tried to talk the buyer of my Gold Top into selling the guitar back to me. He just wouldn’t do it. So, there I was, stuck with a guitar that would not play out of phase satisfactorily at all. Of course, even not out of phase the guitar was pretty much dead sounding and nothing like the Gold Top.


- Correct paf base plates .
- correct butyrate double bound bobbins .
- Made in plain enamel 42 awg magnetic wire .
- not waxx pott.
- Two alnico magnets with custom
Made gaussed .
- True vintage correct covers .
- buffed pole holes in covers .


Outputs values neck 8k ohms and bridge 8.4k ohms with 5% tolerance .