Yes, it looks like a relic PAF ... and no, it isn't one of those :-)
Back in the early sixties the Valco company came up with some decidedly odd guitar designs
While the pickup looks like a humbucker, it is in fact a single coil with a very odd magnet arrangement: the magnet is huge, and sits next to the coil mounted on a right angled plate that the pole screws are tapped into. This gives a huge 'inductor' plate and a very wide sensing area ... so tons of harmonics. This design owes a lot to the Supro lap steel pickup, favorite of Ry Cooder.
So in my quest to bring forgotten tones back, I have been developing my Oil City Masterwound Val-Tone Pro pickup. The form factor of the original Valco pickup was larger than a standard humbucker ... but following my mission of bringing new and interesting pickups to folks with standard humbucker routed guitars (like the Winterizer II has done for Firebird pickups and the Cow-Tron and Sun-Tron has for old Gretsch and DeArmond designs) I have shoe horned a Valco style pickup into a standard humbucker case.
More as development and testing continues :-)
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