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Yes. Nearly all our humbuckers and Trembuckers come with optional gold or nickel plated covers. And for humbuckers you can special order them in black nickel, black chrome or a black powder coat. The only exceptions are the pickups that don’t have standard pole pieces, like the Invader, Dimebucker, Stag Mag and Parallel Axis Trembuckers….

When the Discovery Channel needed someone to build the world’s biggest pickup for their series BIG!, who did they call? Seymour Duncan! Here’s some exclusive pictures from inside the Seymour Duncan factory where Seymour and his crew hand made every part of this (certified) world record breaking 158 pound P.A.F. style pickup: from laser cutting…

Occasionally we’ll get a request for a reverse zebra humbucker. It’s a zebra humbucker with the cream and black bobbins switched. We call this “reverse zebra”. Which coil will be which gets kind of confusing, so we’ve made a handy chart. A picture truly is worth a thousand words. Reverse Zebra Chart.

The Invader (SH-8) is not available as a trembucker because it really doesn’t need to be. It has very large hex screw pole pieces which surround the strings adequately with their magnetic fields.

We stopped making the switch pickups (“Active EQ”) in the mid-’90s. We replaced them with the Pro-Active series. The little rocker switches on the Active EQ pickups change the sound. Switch #1 shifts the coil resonance. On a Jazz Bass neck pickup and a P Bass pickup, the resonance moves downward from 22 KHz to…

The 84-50 was American made and of a higher quality. Circuit wise, the two amps are nearly identical, but there were some differences in the voicing. Even the various versions of the 84-40 were voiced differently. None of the differences were anything major. The 84-50 had a different driver stage that was lower in gain,…

We stopped manufacturing amps decades ago, and consequently we have various documents and few parts relating the amps. Unfortunately, we do not have every owner’s manual, schematic or amp part anymore. We have pdfs of some manuals here. You’ll need Acrobat Reader and it’s a free download from Adobe. Alternatively, we will provide you with faxed or posted copies…

Sorry, we no longer manufacture amps. There are a lot of used amps out there (and even a few new ones). We see used ones advertised all the time.

We had a limited run of 35 guitars to celebrate our 35th anniversary but we no longer have any available. Previously ESP Japan had produced a special line of Seymour Duncan guitars that are no longer in production. You can sometimes still find a 35th guitar for sale.

The best place to locate used modules is on the Seymour Duncan forum where you will see some be listed from time to time. Keep an eye on The Trading Post.