The owner of Amber pickups is Wolfgang Damm. He used to work for Gibson's German distributor M+T for many years. During his time for M+T he developed the P 94 pickup for Gibson - you know, this P 90 with a humbucker format. So this guy really knows pickups..

The customers says...They are outstanding with every gain setting: clean , bluesy overdrive, crunch, high gain lead. Moreover they correspond great with the volume control of your guitar. With the volume all the way up in a clean setting they sound rich, turn the volume down and you will get a Fenderish sound, turn it down a little more and it will sound almost like an accoustic.

Great sounding Pickups, his clientlist speaks for itself.

Brian Kahanek

Keith Scott (Bryan Adams Band)

John Fogerty

Hunter Perrin (John Fogerty Band)

Derek Trucks (Derek Trucks Band/Allman Brothers Band)

Al di Meola

John Norum (Europe/Dokken)

Steve Ouimette (Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock)

Andy Brauer (equipment guy to the stars)

Max Baranet (Builder)

MCI Music (Max Guitars USA)

GM Vintage Restorations

The first electrical signal generated from your guitar comes from your pickups. No matter
what processor, amp, or effects you use, if that first signal is not what you want... your final sound won't be what you want. The pickup is the most important link in the chain.

All of my pickups are built for the best possible tone through exhaustive experimentation and testing. I don't pay much attention to resistance. The wire used, the number of turns, magnet choice, and coil geometry is really what things are all about. I list resistances because that has become the industry standard used to describe pickup specifications

Sheptone specializes in humbucker pickups modeled after the 1959-1961 long-magnet gibson P.A.F.


First let me say that there is no such thing as a reproduced PAF because they all sounded different.
There were many different sounds, because there were many different variables in the manufacturing process. Some even sounded really bad. What can be done is to duplicate the sound of the "average" good sounding P.A.F. by duplicating the assembly process and materials, to consistently reproduce the tone of the best-sounding original P.A.F.'s

Another Fantastic winder of Vintagestyle Pickups......just some famous name of his pickups you always read in the forums

DR.VINTAGE, The LEGEND, MARSHALL Heads.....

WolfeTone Pickups first saw the light of day early in 1995 when I was doing small pickup repairs and got its real start in 1996 while I was employed at Warmoth Guitar Products. While at Warmoth, my interest became an obsession. I fervently searched for parts suppliers, only to fall short, so I stuck to rewinds and repairs. Brett Faust, Warmoth's fret-man and an ex-Fender custom shop employee named my pickups "WolfeTone".

Wolfe spent a great deal of time researching the "black art" of winding pickups and coupled that with what I had learned from Lynn Collins and Jeff Lace. Eventually I met Jason Lollar, a luthier and pickup maker in Seattle. Jason had built a machine to wind his pickups automatically, and I thought I would check it out. We met at his shop, exchanged ideas about pickup winding techniques, parts suppliers, and the likes. I shared my knowledge with Jason, he shared his with me. I thought his machine was a work of pure genius, but felt that hand-winding would be easier for me to grasp, as I just wasn't technically inclined enough to build it.