The '60s were ushered in with the sound of the surf and hot rods. They hit screaming adolescence with the British invasion. And they came of age with a three-day music festival, which will never be duplicated.

Think of a daring surf guitar. Of jangly rhythms. And of one guy in particular who used to light his guitar on fire. With the Antiquity II series, Seymour Duncan set out to recreate the sounds of the guitars and basses that were around when Seymour first started playing in the mid-'60s.

Like the Antiquity series, Seymour Duncan hand-builds Antiquity II pickups in my Santa Barbara custom shop from the same materials and using the same production techniques as the originals.

However, certain appointments unique to the Antiquity II series make them authentic '60s repros. For example, you'll find custom calibrated, Dun-Aged™, sand cast, Alnico V rod magnets with vintage-correct surface features and the characteristic bone grey flatwork. Also, the cosmetic and sonic ageing isn't quite as intense with pickups in the II series.

Hand-built in Seymour's Custom Shop, each pickup is aged to look and sound like a 1960s original. We use vintage correct blue/yellow cloth pushback lead wire, light grey bottom flatwork, and custom-aged covers for just the right look. The Antiquity II Surfer vintage Strat pickups are all lacquered and wax-potted.