What is a PAF pickup?
PAF is an acronym for Patent Applied For. This Patent Applied For term is often used when a new design is invented and a patent has been applied for but not yet granted. Gibson applied for a patent for their new humbucker in 1955. Knowing that other humbucking patents had also simultaneously been applied for, Gibson began production on their design before the patent was granted and marked them as “Patent Applied For” to discourage copy cats. Interestingly enough, Larry Dimarzio of Dimarzio pickups trademarked the PAF acronym in the 1970’s preventing any other pickup manufacturer from using the acronym to describe their own products.
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