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Legend Series P.A.F Clone – Tim White Timbucker
Timbuckers cost $2,000 on the open market if you can find them. The Tim White Legend Series P.A.F. from ToneSpec is here to fill the void & an expensive set of used pickups, these come with the best in class ToneSpec lifetime warranty.
The Tim White Timbucker isn’t just rare, it’s revered. Wound quietly in the late ‘90s by a humble craftsman who gained a cult following in the early gear forums, Tim White came out of nowhere and, without a brand machine behind him, built one of the most sought-after tones in boutique pickup history.
Like OTPG, Don Mare, Throbak, Ron Ellis, and others who rose from early internet chatroom hype, White let his tone do the talking. But where others chased visibility, Tim chased perfection. The result? A PAF-style pickup with clarity, bloom, and harmonic complexity that still outshines most boutique sets today, if you can even find a pair.
He stopped winding around 2008, and Timbuckers vanished from the market, becoming the stuff of legend, traded quietly between those “in the know.” Sometimes players don’t realize how good something is until it’s gone. But legends like this? They don’t really disappear… they get cloned.
Our ToneSpec Timbucker clones go further than homage. Using deep reverse-engineering and techniques perfected across decades of tone chasing, we’ve brought this sound back with a lifetime warranty.
And if anyone’s qualified to do it? It’s us. We previously cloned the Tom Holmes and Virgil Arlo catalog, and we didn’t stop there cloning pickups from all of the masters.
So if you’re chasing Timbucker tone without the auction or guesswork, we’ve got you covered.