on his first homemade it was a gibby PAF(1961 alnico II) that was rewound by seymour personally(this is absolute fact my bud was with eddie when they went to seymour to get it done)
eddie messed up ONE coil of the P.A.F while taking off it's cover:smack: :laugh2:
he told seymour to make the one coil hotter than it was and ed used this one for years
WICKED... YOU ARE CORRECT HERE... SEYMOUR ONLY REWOUND 1 COIL OF EDDIE'S PAF... AND IT WAS MADE HOTTER... THE COIL MIS-MATCH CREATED THAT SPECIAL TONE WITH SOME SINGLE COIL QUALITIES... ALMOST LIKE A P-90
phase two began around 1983 when he told seymour he wanted to keep that pups tone essentially but have more output and warmth
the CC was born but it was not called that yet
eddie stopped seymour from selling it to the public with the threat of a law suit
THIS IS NOTE ENTIRELY TRUE... THE CUSTOM WAS ACTUALLY AN EXISTING PICKUP... THE ORIGINAL HUMBUCKERS WERE THE 59, THE CUSTOM, THE JAZZ, THE JB, THE MAG(PRE-STAG MAG) AND THE DISTORTION.
WHAT ED DID WAS PUT AN OLD PAF ALNICO MAGNET IN THE CUSTOM... IT IS TRUE THAT SEYMOUR WANTED TO ATTACH EDDIE'S NAME TO THIS VARIATION OF THE CUSTOM AND MARKET IT... NO DEAL WITH ED THOUGH...
the custom shop "78 bucker is the same wind that seymour did for ed on his old original '61 P.A.F:beerchug:
THE EVH/78 MODEL ACTUALLY HAS BALANCED COILS... I WISH THEY WERE MIS-MATCHED BECAUSE IT WOULD BETTER CAPTURE THAT EARLY TONE
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