Red Headed Stepchild Humbucker Set

$179.99 ~~$599.00~~

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If you are looking for over the top, just outside of the "Patent Applied For" range tone, look no further. This is the hottest set that I build for really driving the amp. Thick and chunky with lots of crunch. Using 57-58 spec 42 enamel wire, the bridge coils are full and just can't take any more! Paired with an AB custom neck. Again the brainchild of Brian Kahanek, the tone clip video is of his Custom Melancon Tele with this set installed, played through a Marshall amp. If you want hot, does it get any better??

Specs

Name	Magnet	DC Res	Wire Type
Red Headed Stepchild - Bridge	Alnico 5	9.0K	42PE
Red Headed Stepchild - Neck	Alnico 5	7.6K	42PE

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Awesome...!

this set up, with 2 s pickups and the redhead that splits in the bridge sounds killer.....tone all day! Thanks, Ill b back!

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RHS Set

These pickups may have their inspiration in the PAFs of old, but Sheptone has taken it to another universe entirely. Using any other brand after playing these is tantamount to using toys. I cannot recommend them enough!

Thank you so much for the kind words. I greatly appreciate it.

Red Headed Step Child...a welcome member of the family.

I have receieved the Red Headed Stepchild set, but I have not installed yet. Ordering them was clear and easy. I think the pickups arrived about a month after I ordered them which is faster than I expected. Packaging was great. I will let you know how they sound once I have installed them.

Thanks for making my old favorite pickups obsolete :)

Put the bridge in an SG as a replacement for a pickup I really like, a lot.

I was blown away by how good this sounded, again compared to one I was planning to use (Rio Grande BBQ Bucker). At low volumes your pickup chimes, when up, it sings.

I'm also comparing this to my collection of 70s/80s vintage Greco and Burny buckers, which I hoard.

Long story short - I'm kinda sad your pickup has made my favorites feel obsolete :) Great work!

Thank you,
Dan

Thank you,

Dan,GBG

This makes me very happy to read. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be a part of your builds.

Best paf humbucker !!!

This is my third set of redheaded step child pick ups. Absolutely the best sounding paf humbucker around!!! Once again Josh you killed it!

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Really vintage tone 335

Both 6T8 have a fast, dynamic response at any volume. Both overdrive and distortion work equally well. Warm and harmonious sound. Great.

Sweet sound tele pups!

I replaced fender 64pure vintage pups with sheptone A2tele.
This pickup set sounds sweet so if you like jazz, blues, solo guitar and so on, you can enjoy the tone. If you like punchy tele sound, I recommend you go to sheptone A5 tele set. I think this goes better with swapash body and maple fingerboad!

Great Sounds

I purchased a set for my Warmoth build, and they sound just great! Clean or overdriven, they have a certain clarity to them that I like. And they never sound harsh to my ears. I have them wired like a 50's LP, and with a phase switch wired on a push pull pot. I can get all kinds of sounds out of these. Thank you!

An amazing and unique set of PAFs, and a standout builder.

The Sheptone Blue Sky set is an exceptional pair of PAFs. The neck is somehow both airy and woody, and also smooth and creamy. It never gets muddy but delivers very smooth and round tones.

The bridge, in my opinion, is a very special pickup that really stood out to me. I have never experienced such a vocal sounding and expressive bridge pickup in my life, it just does everything I want it to do and more. It's like a 52 tele on steroids without an ounce of harshness in the treble. Roll back the volume and it doesn't lose any heft, and gets you even closer to a single-coil like sound. It's insanely inspiring.

On top of that, Josh is super helpful and available to answer any questions you may have. Truly top notch customer service.

Stop Chasing Dragons

Just buy this thing. It's the best humbucker for any style of music, period. Don't tell me you're a tone snob unless you at least try it.

High gain? It's wound enough to give you some serious chugs and leads so smooth, like butter on a muffin, but not too much that you lose clarity and definition to compression.

Clean? This is one of the very few bridge pickups that can actually pull off a great clean tone without fumbling with the volume and tone, and it holds up split.

It's friendly with fuzz and drive pedals, built like a tank (seriously, Josh isn't screwing around with that baseplate and wire quality) and sleek enough to fit into any humbucker routing.

Red Headed Stepchild Humbucker Set

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