changing pickup size (from WRH to standard humbucker size)

[evilmags]

What you can see here is pretty much the junk you will find inside your own WR 'reissue' Attachment 7334
A bog standard Fender humbucker and a load of wax.
What others don't mention is that the covers are also thicker than the originals ... so yet more of the sound is lost .... there is no reflector plate ... and the magnet (at least on the one I took from my business partner's Japanese reissue) is a cruddy ceramic! Total con.

Just out of interest could you post a pic of what should be inside a widerange.

[mrerikryman]

What you can see here is pretty much the junk you will find inside your own WR 'reissue' Attachment 7334
A bog standard Fender humbucker and a load of wax.
What others don't mention is that the covers are also thicker than the originals ... so yet more of the sound is lost .... there is no reflector plate ... and the magnet (at least on the one I took from my business partner's Japanese reissue) is a cruddy ceramic! Total con.

Man. that is poor... Do they come with a wick?

[WezV]

Just out of interest could you post a pic of what should be inside a widerange.

side by side with a new one



this shows the differences pretty well

http://curtisnovak.com/pickups/repairs/WRHB-ri/

[TheGuitarWeasel]

Man. that is poor... Do they come with a wick?

Nah they just expect you to burn money
To me that's one of the worst cons since the old Columbus Les Paul copies with a single coil under the fake humbucker covers ... or the GFS P90s in a humbucker cover ... that actually had just one standard humbucker bobbin sitting all lonely in there! I think GFS may well have changed that 'design' now after mass protest.
Things you can't tell from the pics: to get the output up on the little biddy standard bobbins they wind the reissue with 43 rather than 42awg wire which affects the tone. Fender also leave out the large steel plate mounted under the bobbins on the original that increases the inductance of the coils.