Low wind PAFs instead of PAFs?

Lebarque

Anyone use low winds? I'm considering some for a 335-style. How do you find them? Anyone looking to move some on? I seem to remember @guitars4you liking them?
Cheers

Evilmags

On a Heritage H575 the ones Oil City made me are excellent. Woody, jazzy neck tone and bluesy bridge. 

markj

Same here. I'm looking at Monty's PAF's.

mgaw

OX4

RiftAmps

Monty's 

Loobs

Evilmags said:

On a Heritage H575 the ones Oil City made me are excellent. Woody, jazzy neck tone and bluesy bridge. 

citizen68

Deacci Zeroes

mr-mac

Deacci LP59-zero

StuartMac290

I have a set of OX4 low winds in one of my 335s, and a set of MHS in the other. Both are excellent, but the OX4s are a bit sweeter and richer-sounding.

guitars4you

Lebarque said:

Anyone use low winds? I'm considering some for a 335-style. How do you find them? Anyone looking to move some on? I seem to remember @guitars4you liking them?
Cheers

the Lollar Low Winds are factory fitted on my Collings i35LC and suit me, but I play with far less gain today, so you might well find the level of gain you use has some bearing on which pick-ups you favour

photek

Another plus 1 for Monty.

Dominic

A load of old cobblers......marketing bs........I have Lollar Imperials in one guitar and LOW WIND Imperials in another identical guitar ..........really can't tell the difference at all .....and even if I could it's nothing that turning the vol knob down one digit wont solve
 Got OX4 and Seth Lovers in others ...........same story
All in the mind I think

fretfinder

Stormy Mondays. Preferably early ones when they were handwired. Oh wait, there's no such thing as literally handwired pickups! 

WezV

fretfinder said:

Stormy Mondays. Preferably early ones when they were handwired. Oh wait, there's no such thing as literally handwired pickups! 

actually, most are handwired.   but the definition of "hand wound" might be up for debate

photek

Dominic said:

A load of old cobblers......marketing bs........I have Lollar Imperials in one guitar and LOW WIND Imperials in another identical guitar ..........really can't tell the difference at all .....and even if I could it's nothing that turning the vol knob down one digit wont solve
 Got OX4 and Seth Lovers in others ...........same story
All in the mind I think

Interesting, I notice quite a difference between my Monty's, OX4's and antiquities, particularly on break up settings. Less so with lots of gain. It's not Day and night but definitely enough to have more than one Les Paul.

fretfinder

WezV said:

fretfinder said:

Stormy Mondays. Preferably early ones when they were handwired. Oh wait, there's no such thing as literally handwired pickups! 

actually, most are handwired.   but the definition of "hand wound" might be up for debate

What I meant was that none are wired/wound totally by hand without the use of any machine.

WezV

I know, I'm just being pedantic.

  It's funny how many PAFs are advertised as handwound (meaning the wire is guided onto the spinning bobbin by hand... to a greater or lesser degree) when the originals never were at all.  But I can't deny most of the pickups I buy are handwound in some way.  

Gibson pickup winding machine was a quirky beast, and it's probably easier to mimic its randomness by hand.