1980 Gibson Tim Shaw Humbucker (PAT NO. 2737842)1980 Gibson Tim Shaw Humbucker (PAT NO. 2737842) As an engineer at the Gibson Custom Shop, Tim Shaw was appointed the job of recreating the golden era of PAF humbuckers in the early 1980s for use in Gibson guitars, following feedback that the "PAF" clones manufactured in the 1970s were pretty far off the mark. The result was the Tim Shaw PAT NO. humbucker you see before you, manufactured for a short time between 1980 1986. These are often considered