Better Fender and Squier Wide Range Pickups On a Budget 

Fender now makes real cunife wide range pickups again. They are really nice, but expensive. Yours are really great sounding. You brought that guitar alive.

Many thanks for the great work! Personally, I was much, much lazier and extended my Squier humbucker range without winding the coil. I simply replaced the standard ceramic magnets with AlNiCo 5. It was the easiest way to get enough glass from the 2-wire pickups.😔

I just got my DTT dogear P90 yesterday and threw it in a junior dc and I have to admit that the pickup is very very good. I feel like I would have still been satisfied if I had have paid $50 more. Take that for what it's worth.

That sonic difference is nuts! I love the improvement!!

Hi Dylan, do you have an idea of when you’ll offer the WideRange rewind again and what the cost will be? Thanks. Your channel is awesome and super informative!

Oh and if you haven’t done one, Lipsticks…. If you haven’t heard him, steve kimock is a tone master, he has a 70’s era strat i believe that he routed out to use like the full size lipsticks, when this strat (and also most likely his dumble doesn’t hurt) is picked up during a show, it 100% of the time brings a tear to my eye…. i just recently put one together with a $200 Tagima strat that’s orange sparkle and dark dark “technical wood” neck, black pickguard with the 70’s knobs from my CV tele custom and gold super tubes from gfs. The bridge is a little too hot, so i was thinking of getting a second middle one to put in its spot. Thanks again Dylan!

I put Lollar $$$ WIde Range pickups in a China built Fender STARcaster from 2013. That's "StarCaster". It's a look alike China built Simi Hollow Body COPY the the 1970's American Built Fender Starcaster. I swaped out all hardware from Tunners to Strap Ties. I even added a Master Valume Pot to make my guitar just like the real 1970 unit. Would love to have you hear and see it one day.

That was a huge improvement, Dylan. Kudos!!

Another great video Dlyan. I was wondering about those pickup's tone. Fender kind of lies a lot about their budget line pickups. Example: their so called Jazzmaster pickups on a Squier are a Jazzmaster wound coil with a P90 magnet and adjustable rods. I call them a J90. Have a good one.

Sounds great, ton of clarity. I’m going to buy a humbucker sized cunif pick up for my traditional tele. Not sure what single coil pickup in the bridge to match it with for volume.

I’d love to know when this will be available again. Thanks.

The thing a lot of people don't know is that it's still fairly easy to put literally any uncovered humbuckers in that guitar, you just need to put it onto the existing base plate and then solder the cover on and soak it in wax so it doesn't feedback.

These Squiers sound so good!! I just bought a used one at GC. All because I saw it on your YT channel. Thanks, Dylan.

oh so right on about the lollar’s, a while ago i grabbed a CV 70’s custom and put a Lollar Regal Low Wind in the neck and the Lollar Special T in the bridge, holy cow! That Regal is one of the best sounding things EVER….I’ve have had several builds and that Squire CuNiFart has been sitting in my pickup drawer since I bought the guitar. What a great idea Dylan, im filling the form out now and sending it in….

If you’ve got a very very VERY limited budget simply wire the humbuckers parallel rather than series😉👍

Fender alleged that the recipe for Tim Shaw's wide range pickup magnets has been lost in time in order to upsell their $1800 guitars. Glad to see you reconstruct this. You going to sell your version?

As of January 2023, Lollar Wide Range pickups or Lollar Regal pickups are $225 EACH! Hosco equivalents are priced at £80.00 each here in Great Britain. Anybody tried the Hosco Wide Range pups?

genius! Way better tones and actual Tele twang!

Amazing. Big difference in the sound... and you didn't even change the tone wood, LOL.

Are you planning to start accepting orders for rewinding anytime soon? I'm dying to get the pickups on my starcaster fixed.

Lol you guys should put up Wide Range Humbucker Season signs every time you gear up to do a batch

Very nice pickups Dylan. Well done

Wow what a difference, so much more chime!!

Hello Dylan, very nice work! I found them a little too treble and harsh for my taste, I think it has to be with the fact that you dont added a base plate reflector, I think helps in controlling the higher frequencys.

We appreciate you, sir. Thanks!

When are you offering again? Thanks Dylan

I have the same one in natural finish. Got it used at a pawn shop. While it looks pretty, overall, it's a very functional guitar at best. Playability is good, but the lack of tonal options make it feel cheap. The bridge pickup is disappointing. I mainly use neck or middle.

Excellent content Dylan! I'm looking at getting a Tele with at least one humbucker but the whole wide ranging discussion has me a bit confused as to their sound. I'd be ok with a neck humbucker that is similar to the '57 Classic from Gibson or something like that. I just want a Tele with pickups that are not of the standard variety. I'm putting together a Partscaster with '54 Klein pickups so doing anything traditional with the newer Tele would not make much sense. So, to hear your discussion of the Squier version of the wide ranging pups is very interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

So.... how much do you charge for rewiring the pick up? It's kind of annoying that you never say how much you charge for this process. The guitar sounds killer!! Thanks.

I have a Mexican Deluxe Telecaster Reissue, and the stock pickups will sound a bit better with 500k pots. Still not a great pickup though.

There's this girl in my jazz program (a freshman) who brought in a squier telecaster custom for practice which normally she plays woodwind or brass I don't remember. The freshman who knew nothing about guitar thought it sounded dope and even a very experienced sophomore guitarist loved the sound but I HATED IT. I don't like most humbuckers in general and I was kinda sad that I hated it because I kept hearing people say how much clarity there was to these Pickups and I heard it and I thought it was awful. It was so muddy that I couldn't even really hear any notes. It was just like different pitched bass boosted sounds. For a while I thought that's how it was but then I heard a few people demoing it on yt and I loved it. When I finally found your video, I wa beyond shocked, I was horrified. Squier is a fantastic company but holy hell, what was fender thinking when they made these pickups. It doesn't even sound like the same guitar. I just wanna thank you for truly making realize that it really is that good of a humbucker and that this is my favourite humbucker in the world

Man, your pickups always sound great!

Hey Dylan fan from Guatemala here! thanks for all the great content! do you know anything about the FENDER NEW CUNIFE WIDE RANGE Humbucker line? have you tried them? also, are the Lollars CUNIFE? I can't seem to find any details online. lastly, do you think it matters in achieving the "more fender" color of humbucker?

I'd like to know whether converting standard PAF style Humbuckers using magnetic pole pieces etc would improve the clarity and bite of the pickup?

Hey mate. Just wondering if you do orders from Australia? I’m super keen to get one of my pickups rewound as I accidentally cut the copper wire. Cheers Adam

I have that same guitar and they sound alot different to regular humbuckers. I get comments all the time about how great it sounds. I actually compared this guitar to a another thinline with Lollars Regals and my guitar didn’t sound much different. It makes me wonder if my Squier has a real WRHB??? I even compared my guitar to a Gibson sg custom with custom shop hbs and the guy at the guitar shop said my thinline had so much more pop are clarity and really shined above the sg custom.

Hey Dylan love this channel always answers good questions and sometimes questions get answered just as I think'em. Why I'm commenting because I just stumble on a Squier Tele Deluxe an found black an white wires from each of the wide range faker pup's just heat shrinked together and the other two leads from each pup's terminated correctly the Tele works fine. But does that mean I can upgrade to pull/push nobs? (Total 4 wires from each faker pup's) Thank You for your channel 👏👏👏

Good WRHBs sound so nice

Really enjoy your videos...my question: I'd love you to rewind my Squier WRs. But if you're not planning on offering WR rewinds anymore, is there anyone else you know of the does this type of work? Thanks!

For me this microphone is more like a single coil alnico 5. I have this same guitar and for Jazz, it's perfect. Are you of the same opinion ?

Hi Dylan, You didn't explain the magnet swap. Do you use very different magnets? Also, have you ever tried replacing the screws and pole-pieces of a regular bucker with Alnico 5? That seems like it would get you closer to the structure of a CuNiFe Wide-range bucker. When I've done that, I've used a soldering iron on the slugs until they melt the the plastic enough to push the pole pieces through. (Others reading this: Be aware that you can screw that up, so don't try it on a bucker that you like)

Hi Dylan, please do a video on how pickup works on hollow or semihollow guitar

Hello! Are you guys open again for changing some MIM “Widerange”😂 pickups from a Telecaster Thinline 72. I’m in Colombia. I’d had to have them sent out to you but I’d really like to give that a try. What’s the cost for that? Thanks in advance. Great clip

I have a PRS Vela that I might wanna experiment with pickups. Plus I have an original Reverend Billy Corgan with some of the coolest pickups in it I ever heard...just not thrilled with the neck and scale length.

When are you going to offer this again?

The reworked ones sound amazing! Now I wish I had picked up one of the 70s sparkle deluxe that fender was selling about 10 years ago. I have a question triggered by your explanation of the wide range build: is that similar to how G&L MFD pickups are constructed? I really like the sound of those, but haven't found a G&L that feels good in my hands.

I have a MIM 72 Tele it’s sparkle orange and I love it except the muddy neck pickup. The bridge is a great sounding single coil. But even mixed the neck kills the sound.

I have a P-Rails pickup. Could this treatment be applied to it?

I just snagged on of these, trying to figure out what to do with it. Not sure if I want to go dual humbucker though. Is it a swimming pool route or drilled specifically for that size pu.

So do I understand it correctly? This is basically taping two RWRP single coils together on smaller bobbins?

I have a Vintage Modified Squier custome tele, with a wide range neck and Duncan designed single coil in the bridge. What pots do you recommend? 500 for the HB, and 250 for the single? Thanks!

Link doesn’t seem to go anywhere, how much does this cost and how can we tell when you guys do these? Thanks

I have a wide range pickup crush

Why didn't you show the actual process? And you didn't explain what was "wrong" with the original winding.

So what did you Do now? Pull the Bär Magnet out and replace the Pole pieces with Pole magnets?

Couldn't you go a step further and get the cunife magnets? They are only 2 dollars a piece

Don't they do the same with squier jazzmasters? Put a giant plastic cover on a regular single coil

Since you've had the Squiers apart, I hope you can answer a question. Are the pole pieces supposed to be threaded? I just got a 2001 Indo made Squier 70's custom Tele with the Wide Range Pickup and found out the hard way that the pole pieces seen from the top of the pickup cover are not threaded. You have to push them from the top to lower, and remove pickguard and push from bottom to raise...

Thank you for the video Dylan. I’m a bit late with this video, but I actually really like my reissue wide range humbuckers on my 2018 MIM ‘72 Deluxe Thinline Tele. They sound a lot like the humbuckers from after you modded yours, like a tele but bigger and more controlled under a bit of gain. I believe they are stock, but got the guitar 2nd hand in 2020, so they could have been modded. I’ve been looking to find something online about whether the stock ones are just humbuckers (as you’ve described in a few of your videos), or if the pole pieces are magnetised in some models (not to mod them either way, but to be able to replicate the sound I like if I get new pickups in another guitar). I know I could just take the pick guard off, but I’m a bit precious about not changing anything when I have it set up just how I like it 😂 Do you know if Fender do the magnetised pole pieces pickups in any of their models with reissue wide range humbuckers?

Nice!

Do you recommend this for the vintera (70s) wrhbs?

Do you make a wide-range pick up?

You paid $549 for that? Those are going new for $449 on Sweetwater! Different finish, but still...

I know pickups are your thing about how about the rest of the guitar? Is it on par with a Fender?

Ok, well that’s just crazy awesome.

Cu - copper, Ni - nickel, Fe - iron.

How would this compare to the Duncan StagMag?

Мартиросян на минималках !!!!!