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Post subject: Custom Shop Wide Range Humbuckers
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:55 pm
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In recent years, the Custom Shop has produced a few guitars featuring Wide Range humbucker reissues.

Does anyone know if these pickups are a special Custom Shop variety, or are they the same as the ones used in standard production line guitars like Classic Player Tele® Deluxe?


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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Wide Range Humbuckers
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:16 pm
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Hello,

I don't have any documentation on the differences but... I was going to purchase a 2012 Telecaster Custom AVRI that had a Fender WRHB in the neck. I auditioned it against a 2013 Fender 1972 Custom Classic Closet from the Custom Shop. It was not contest. The CS blew the AVRI out of the water. In particular the WRHB was night and day better sounding. Not as muddy and note definition was great. I think the CS WRHB are slightly different spec. No matter, I'm still putting in a Telenator WRHB. It's on order and I should have it in roughly two weeks. Have a look at the Telenator sight. He is the ONLY one building them EXACTLY like Fender did in the originals, right down to the ultra rate Cunife magnetic pole pieces....,.

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Post subject: Re: Custom Shop Wide Range Humbuckers
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:48 pm
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stardaruni wrote:
Hello,

I don't have any documentation on the differences but... I was going to purchase a 2012 Telecaster Custom AVRI that had a Fender WRHB in the neck. I auditioned it against a 2013 Fender 1972 Custom Classic Closet from the Custom Shop. It was not contest. The CS blew the AVRI out of the water. In particular the WRHB was night and day better sounding. Not as muddy and note definition was great.


There are definitely differences between WRHs. I own a '72 Thinline RI and a Select HH, both of which have WRHs, and they're like night and day. The Select allegedly has the Custom Shop ones, and they sound extremely rich and precise. The standard ones sound more bright and twangy.
In some ways, the standard ones being on the brighter side is more like the original WRHs, but I'd still take the CS ones because of the musical qualities. Especially as a neck pickup, it is awesome, handling drop D bass and squealies on the treble strings with equal ease. The same can not be said of the regular WRH, alas, which excels as bright midrange and bright midrange only.


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