Stevens Pickup Winder used to make Gibson P-90 pickups from the late 1940’s to the late 1960’s. In the mid 1970’s, Gibson moved most of their old factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nashville, Tennessee. Knowing that Les Paul was an avid tinkerer and experimenter, Gibson invited the star to come down to the Kalamazoo factory and take any machinery that would not be transferred over to the company’s new location. Since Les often created his own low impedance pickups, he chose to bring the Gibson factory’s discarded pickup winder to his home in Mahwah, New Jersey. This impressive piece of Gibson history was not only used for the mass production of Gibson pickups until the late 1960’s, but was also personally used by Les to craft his own prototype pickups and experiment extensively in his home laboratory right up until the early 1980’s when he gave this unit to Tom.

Dimensions: 12” x 29 ¾” x 18”