Micro-Stealth PAF Humbucker for Archtop Jazz Guitar
The most innovative floating pickup for Archtop Jazz-guitar in decades, The Micro-PAF Humbucker is Engineered for a warm, clean and flattering "Jazz" sound. Uses custom manufactured low-intensity neodymium magnets and real hardwood spacers to achieve a vintage tone with a modern "bite," strong attack, and three-dimensional sounding overtones.
The Micro-Stealth PAF Humbucker is a favorite of custom modern builders and is now featured on select archtops by Emerald and Fibonacci and a growing list of custom builders.
The most popular option is my putty-mount Micro-Stealth PAF which installs effortlessly on your archtop with included putty.
I also offer a "floating" pickguard mount version of the Micro. Please note: floating pickups are meant to be semi-permanently installed to the pickguard by a qualified luthier: they can be mounted with glue or screws (pickup mounting tab may be safely drilled on either side of the two horizontal lines =).
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My 1966 Harmony arch-top jazz guitar just got new life with a (Micro-Stealth PAF) humbucking pickup made by Portland's Jason Krivo Flores. It has the perfect combination of attack, bite, warmth and gently pushed mid-range that I was struggling to find in other pickups—Now I want one for every guitar I have!" |
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Players have been asking me for years to develop a low-profile Jazz humbucker for “old-school” style archtop guitars which have limited space between the top and strings. The Micro PAF pickup gives players what they have asked for: an adjustable 12-pole PAF style humbucker with a thick warm and punchy “Jazz” sound, all at an incredible mere 6 mm thickness.
Engineered for a warm, clean and flattering "Jazz" sound, the Micro-Stealth uses custom manufactured low-intensity neodymium magnets and real hardwood spacers to achieve a surprisingly sweet attack with three-dimensional sounding overtones. DC resistance ≈ 8.2Kohms 
The Micro-Stealth PAF is standard on the new Kestrel archtop from Emerald Guitars
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^ Hear and see the Krivo Micro-Stealth PAF on a 1950 Gibson L7-C. Installation and review by Steve Bloom www.bloomworks.com |
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Here is a sound clip of Dan Kozar: fingerstyle jazz guitarist performing with his Krivo Micro-PAF Humbucker installed
on his gorgeous Paul Saunders guitar. |
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