Repairing Gibson Humbuckers

Modern humbuckers tend to be very consistent in terms of quality. Indeed, Tom Brantley gets hardly any passing through his North Carolina workshop for repair; the majority of poorly pickups he sees date back to the late 80s and prior. “I usually work on stuff that’s 40, 50 or 60 years old, often older – it’s taken that long for them to fail,” Tom tells us. “With the covers on, humbuckers are