Privateer Metal Pickups This combination brings together the

This combination brings together the best of vintage and modern voicings

The A5 magnets replaced A3 in telecasters after a short period

and balanced for their positions in the guitar

so if you are looking to recreate that early Maiden tone these are the pickups for you

with reverse polarity as standard

Privateer Metal Pickups This combination brings together theThis humbucker is based off of Adrian Smith's Ibanez Destroyer II pickups, specifically the bridge pickup, which I had the pleasure of rewinding before the Iron Maiden World tour in 2025. These were created after taking careful note of the construction of Adrian's pickups, which many people believed were Super Distortions, but they were not they were actually a combination of components from at least Ibanez and DiMarzio, but appeared to have already