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monstereo · March 24th, 2009, 11:37 PM

i love my 72 telecaster custom. love love love it. i had a japanese one in 96 but then i got stupid trying to improve the abysmal tone of the wide range humbucker, and wound up with 2 mini humbuckers and a gretsch filtertron before i gave up and sold it.

now i am starting from scratch with a MIM model, and surprisingly the WRH in that one is even worse than the japanese one. does anyone have any suggstions on rebuilding the current one, or does anybody do high quality rebuilds of the WRH?

it blows my mind that there is so little effort to do a good job with an aftermarket pickup for this one because as i make my way around the internet i see such a demand for them.

i have tried a rewind job (two times) on my mexican pickup, and they end up sounding too hot with even just a little more wire on the bobbins. so much of it is resting on the cunife magnet polepieces of the original humbuckers from the 70's, but the magnets are not in enough supply or much demand for that matter.

most people say the factory MIM ones sound like a gibson humbucker, and i would be willing to settle for a good quality burstbucker tone, but the mexican ones don't even really come close to that even.

fender must have bad memories of these pickups because they clearly are all about the "vintage mojo" look and care very little about the sound. pls help!

March 24th, 2009, 11:37 PM	#282 (permalink)
monstereo NEW MEMBER! Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Toronto Posts: 8	i love my 72 telecaster custom. love love love it. i had a japanese one in 96 but then i got stupid trying to improve the abysmal tone of the wide range humbucker, and wound up with 2 mini humbuckers and a gretsch filtertron before i gave up and sold it. now i am starting from scratch with a MIM model, and surprisingly the WRH in that one is even worse than the japanese one. does anyone have any suggstions on rebuilding the current one, or does anybody do high quality rebuilds of the WRH? it blows my mind that there is so little effort to do a good job with an aftermarket pickup for this one because as i make my way around the internet i see such a demand for them. i have tried a rewind job (two times) on my mexican pickup, and they end up sounding too hot with even just a little more wire on the bobbins. so much of it is resting on the cunife magnet polepieces of the original humbuckers from the 70's, but the magnets are not in enough supply or much demand for that matter. most people say the factory MIM ones sound like a gibson humbucker, and i would be willing to settle for a good quality burstbucker tone, but the mexican ones don't even really come close to that even. fender must have bad memories of these pickups because they clearly are all about the "vintage mojo" look and care very little about the sound. pls help!