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I Speak Publicly on the Vintage Guitar Podcast

April 07, 2025 • guitar • josh vittek • vintage • vintage guitar

Here is a link to a podcast interview I did last week with Vintage Guitar Magazine retracing how I got to where I am today. It was fun and I enjoyed actually having the opportunity to talk with James Patrick Regan outside of our typical NAMM chaos. Let me know what you think. Thank you so much to the entire Vintage Guitar team for all of the support throughout my career.

Tribute 2 PAF Style Humbuckers

November 06, 2023 • alnico II • alnico2 • humbucker • paf • tone • tribute • vintage

Do you have a naturally bright sounding guitar that just needs to be tamed and fattened up? Then my Tribute 2's are the humbuckers you need to achieve that ultimate vintage tone. Wrapped with plain enamel 42 wire, the neck tends to measure out at around 7.7 and the bridge at about 8. The AlniCo 2 magnet really helps soften up the harsh top end that can occur with strong maple tops and maple bodies. CLICK ON OVER and check them out.

LIMITED EDITION 15TH ANNIVERSARY T-SHIRT

November 14, 2022 • anniverary • cotton • sheptone • t-shirt • vintage

your wife will steal this from you...

Another 5 Star Review

July 19, 2021 • dogear • gibson • junior • p90 • sheptone • vintage

"The Sheptone P90 is fu*#ing unreal."

Giveaway Winner Clarence Lehman Shares Some Love

May 17, 2021 • fender • giveaway • pickup • sheptone • single coil • vintage

I just wanted to an opportunity to thank Clarence Lehman for sharing this video. Clarence was the winner of March’s pickup giveaway. Once he received his set, he promptly built a new guitar to show them off. Here’s the video he sent over. Thanks Clarence.

An amazing and unique set of PAFs, and a standout builder.

The Sheptone Blue Sky set is an exceptional pair of PAFs. The neck is somehow both airy and woody, and also smooth and creamy. It never gets muddy but delivers very smooth and round tones.

The bridge, in my opinion, is a very special pickup that really stood out to me. I have never experienced such a vocal sounding and expressive bridge pickup in my life, it just does everything I want it to do and more. It's like a 52 tele on steroids without an ounce of harshness in the treble. Roll back the volume and it doesn't lose any heft, and gets you even closer to a single-coil like sound. It's insanely inspiring.

On top of that, Josh is super helpful and available to answer any questions you may have. Truly top notch customer service.

Stop Chasing Dragons

Just buy this thing. It's the best humbucker for any style of music, period. Don't tell me you're a tone snob unless you at least try it.

High gain? It's wound enough to give you some serious chugs and leads so smooth, like butter on a muffin, but not too much that you lose clarity and definition to compression.

Clean? This is one of the very few bridge pickups that can actually pull off a great clean tone without fumbling with the volume and tone, and it holds up split.

It's friendly with fuzz and drive pedals, built like a tank (seriously, Josh isn't screwing around with that baseplate and wire quality) and sleek enough to fit into any humbucker routing.

Blue Sky

I'm very pleased with the Blue Sky's. I have over 10 guitars with different varieties of PAFs and I routinely grab for my guitar with the Blue Sky's. It has that woody and glassy tone I'm looking for. It's organic and dynamic. The overtones bloom at even bedroom volumes. You won't regret putting these in your favorite guitar.

Upshot Pickup

I've been using Shepton pickups in my guitars for the last 15 years and never disappointed! Upshot is another great pickup.

Sheptone Tribute 4 set

Great pickups, fantastic tone, highly recommended!

I Speak Publicly on the Vintage Guitar Podcast

Tribute 2 PAF Style Humbuckers

LIMITED EDITION 15TH ANNIVERSARY T-SHIRT

Another 5 Star Review

Giveaway Winner Clarence Lehman Shares Some Love

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