1968-1969-1970 Gibson T-Top patent number sticker humbucker Chrome PAF pat no

Great late 1960's pat.no. sticker humbucker with original coils and wire, replaced lead. Can be used in the bridge and neck position. Measures a perfect 7.65K Ohm. Screw holes in the feet are widened but we just repaired these so they work fine with the original screws.
 
Amongst Gibson owners the T-Top humbucker is, next to the PAF, arguably the most sought after 'vintage' Gibson pickup. Examples change hands for what can be quite a lot money ... so what's the deal with them.

 
Well firstly the T Top (it was never called that by Gibson) isn't so much one pickup, as a family of pickups from around 1968 to about 1980/1981, that all happen to use the same type of bobbin. The old PAF bobbin with its distinctive little holes at one end was distinctly fragile, and when Gibson re tooled the bobbin they made it a beefier moulding stamped with a T on top of the mold. All T Tops are wound with 42awg poly wire and Gibson's production techniques were much more standardized in the T Top era than in earlier PAF days, so it's not surprising that most T-Top's came in around 7.5k bridge and neck.