Anyone know about "Vintage Split" humbucker Or Fender Custom Shop Texas Specials

Please someone help me decide which pickups to get...

I have a recently aquired a 1994 MIM Telecaster Special that had a humbucker stock and i dont like the duncan pickup thats in there i want more of a classic sound like the kinmans but without the kinman price tag
http://www.kinman.com/images/inside/mediaCentre/sounds/60n%20Steve.mp3

Heres my new tele with Dimarzio and duncan pickups now. soon to be different.
http://www.jeffreycollier.com/tele/slides/DSC00095.JPG

So i was thinking about this opportunity I have to buy a brand new never installed set of Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Tele Pickup set for $100 and i think thats a pretty decent deal... but then I'd have to get a single pickguard which is 10 bux unless i get actual fender parts. Does anyone have any sound clips of these pickups? Should i get actual USA fender replacement parts tone, volume, switches etc?

I was also kicking around installing one of these Classic Fender style "Vintage Split" humbuckers
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-50206111187217_1982_10254052

Or spend the cash $89 and get a real deal fender classic split bucker?
http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/43000047/Images/1/Fender%20tele%20humbucker%20bridge%20and%20neck.JP G


Whats everyone think? Does anyone have these pickups and can provide some samples?


Heres a link to my other telecaster post
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discussion-forum/95235-hey-you-tele-masters-can-you-help-me-out.html#post1076651

I'd get the real one if you can. I tried the GFS Vintage Split one once and I wasn't impressed. They aren't the same construction as the real thing, they're just voiced a bit brighter and have the polepiece pattern on the cover for the 'look'.

I wasn't impressed with the GFS either. Of course, there are some guys here who like them.

I have the GFS Vintage Split Humbuckers in my Squeir Tele Custom. I LOVE the bridge pickup. It has a really bright, chimey high end that I love. I've said this to a lot of people, but it sounds exactly like the guitar in Ryan Adams' "Do Miss America."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR81oLED1ss

Now, I know from an interview that Ryan recorded most of that album on vintage 72's through Twin Reverbs...and I think the GFS VSH bridge pickup can nail that sound.

The rhythm pickup is less spectatuclar...but I barely use it anyway. It sounds underwheming...the best way I can describe it is dull and mediocre, but the bridge is great!

i say spend the cash and buy the fender WR bucker.

the rhythm pickup is just so warm and fat i love it. i really think you will to.

jmho of course, but you did ask haha

pooh! I've got that GFS 'bucker that I was gonna stick in the neck position of
an upcoming Tele project - I mean, I'll try it before I decide.. but it's kinda
disconcerting that so many of y'all have given this pup the ol' thumbs-down!
hopefully I'll be one of the guys who likes it, huh? :wink:

that's a nice red color, Assholio - is it opaque or can you see wood grain under
there?

pooh! I've got that GFS 'bucker that I was gonna stick in the neck position of
an upcoming Tele project - I mean, I'll try it before I decide.. but it's kinda
disconcerting that so many of y'all have given this pup the ol' thumbs-down!
hopefully I'll be one of the guys who likes it, huh? :wink:

that's a nice red color, Assholio - is it opaque or can you see wood grain under
there?

If you want to do something fun, you could put in the GFS bridge 'bucker in the neck and see how that sounds. :lol:

Some things to be wary of with the Fender Wide Range Humbucker. First, it's bigger than a regular humbucker and you'll have trouble finding a pickguard that fits it (forget about a mounting ring). Second, what you'll find (if you can) are reissues that are not constructed the same as the original Seth Lover designed WRH for the '72 Tele Custom and subsequently the Deluxe. The originals had CuNiFe (copper, nickel, iron) magnetic pole pieces, but the reissues are made just like an ordinary humbucker with a bar magnet underneath and slug polepieces running up through the coils. The originals had large bobbins and coils, whereas the reissues are just regular sized (smaller) humbucker coils inside a larger casing with wax to fill the void. Third, you need multi conductor wiring to get coil-shunt (some call it tapping or splitting) or phase options in your wiring; I don't think the Fender reissue WRH has three or four conductor cable.

If you stick with a normal humbucker you've got so many options it isn't even funny, and you'll have the flexibility to swap them out.

I have Lindy Fralin Unbuckers in the neck position of two Tele parts-sters that I made and I'm very happy with them. They behave well in the Keith Richards style combo of the humbucker in the neck together with the bridge single coil. Also when you coil-shunt the humbucker to use just one coil, it combines very well in more traditional Tele combinations (parallel and series) with the other pickup. Not to say the WRH reissue is a bad pickup, but you should understand what you're getting and how it will get you the sound you want.

pooh! I've got that GFS 'bucker that I was gonna stick in the neck position of
an upcoming Tele project - I mean, I'll try it before I decide.. but it's kinda
disconcerting that so many of y'all have given this pup the ol' thumbs-down!
hopefully I'll be one of the guys who likes it, huh? :wink:

that's a nice red color, Assholio - is it opaque or can you see wood grain under
there?


yes its a nice red and you can see the wood grain. The nimrod before me sprayed the original black pickguard white so i need to get another one of those thats why i was going to get the GFS bucker... since its cheap and i need to order a pickguard and thats the only place ive found that has them.
heres a pic to show the grain.. i need to take better pics but ill do that when im done.

http://www.jeffreycollier.com/tele/slides/Photo97.jpg