59 SB-PAF Humbucker option-set-817280-buttons-1 The Firebird pickup takes a

The Firebird pickup takes a totally different approach by instead orientating a bar magnet within each of its two coils and orientating them vertically across the full width of the pickup

This mix of Humbucker and soapbar P90 where originally envisaged for one of our in house guitars (namely a beautiful Patrick James Eggle Macon Jr) but before we had the chance to actually install them

rewind and replication work over the years here at SUNBEAR has resulted in quite a few pickups revealing elements of pickup making you just won’t find in books or even the darker corners of dusty online forums

As seen in Guitarist Magazine issue 536 May 2026

While this is far from an easy task to pin down and of course the pickups loaded into those historic guitars varied a fair amount

59 SB-PAF Humbucker option-set-817280-buttons-1 The Firebird pickup takes aWhere do you start with the PAF? Well, theres our low wind 57 set of course but what about if you want some more classic burst bark and punch? Well, these are our answer. Maintaining our typical goal of clarity, sweetness and musicality we add a rough cast Alnico IV magnet to the bridge pickup for some extra high end grit, alongside a very even low mid 8k output to round things out.