I have to say, that I like the Sound of the stock pickups, once I changed the pots from the stock 250's to 500K pots.
I'm sure i would love a set of Telenator's Repro's but that would require another 72RI as I have no good reason to change this one, a third time.
After going to the 500K pots and getting the pups height adjusted to the best sound I could find, I enjoyed it for about a year. Then I picked up a new 69RI Thinline and found that they put 1Meg pots on the single coils (
What the heck are they thinking when they build the Thinlines?) I changed these for 250k pots, a set of keystones, a 4way switch and a Q-filter tone circuit.
I ended up trying the 1meg pots with The WRHB's and I ended up with a cool glitch.
The neck pup sounds full and loud the bridge pup ended up thin and weak sounding(the glitch) But the middle position is "Freakin Awesome!" I thought about looking into what is wrong with the bridge pup, but I couldn't get the middle position tone like this again if I tried.
Maybe one day I can pick up a set of Telenator HB's for a few bucks less than the current list $. I'm sure that they are worth every penny, when you account for the time and materials that go into them and the pile of smiles
that come out of them!