Vintage Wide Range Humbucker 5-string

Vintage Wide Range Humbucker 5-stringIn 1972 Fender introduced their take on the humbucker, a singularly unique design from Seth Lover, the inventor of the original "humbucking" pickup. Known for their clarity and top end sparkle, they went out of production in 1979, until Fender reissued them in 1983 with a different design to the originals. These modern versions are a standard humbucker in a larger case, and don't display any of the characteristics that made the originals so unique and

doubled-up single-coil clarity

with a more modern higher output bridge pickup

Available with chrome cover

Staggered AlNiCo 5 magents

choose from my Vintage Wide Range Humbucker with AlNiCo 3 magnets

and the bridge is slightly overwound to approximately 11

DCR Neck: 9

and is scatter wound with 42awg plain enamel wire to roughly 7

They are wound with 42awg plain enamel to approximately 6

Using the same construction methods as the original Firebird pickups

nickel or gold covers

Wire 42awg Heavy Formvar