A strat with Widerangers

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:02 am

A while ago I traded some guitars with SKC Willie... and I ended up with a Daphne blue Squier Strat with weird wiring as part of the bargain.

It just sat around my apartment collecting dust.

Until I looked at the parts I had lying around. I had a pair of GFS Widerangers, a set beat up gotoh style tuners, and a pair of 500k pots lying around. I ordered a custom pickguard/backplate, refinished the neck, and called it a day. I'll hang on to it for now.

Sounds nice enough, great through my Vox. Chimey and clear, but it takes pedals like a champ. It's even clear through my Big Muff, which surprised me.

And pics:

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:42 am

I do like that. Maybe put a demo on youtube?

Noisy Cat · Post by **Noisy Cat** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:10 am

I don't like Strats but I like that a lot.

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:48 pm

Hawt as fuck, love the tort with that shit.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:39 pm

Yeah the tort on the back looks dope. I would totally rock that shit.

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:43 pm

Nice looking tiger style tort.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:43 pm

Looks like River Cuomo's blue strat. Not bad, and I'm sure it sounds snazzy! Definitely second that demo request.

HH strats generally don't do much for me though. Give me three humbuckers like this, then we'll talk.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:54 pm

Everything Sparky said +1

izodiak · Post by **izodiak** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:07 pm

really like it !

+1 DEMO

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:50 pm

Demo soon... I'm traveling for work at the moment

Sparky wrote:

There's one of those for sale locally down here, a Univox Ripper. And it's been tempting me for months now

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:10 am

cool guitar, but those are not god damn "wide-rangers"

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:42 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:cool guitar, but those are not god damn "wide-rangers"

apparently fender doesnt even make wide range hb anymore?

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:48 pm

correct, the original seth lover wide rangers were only made for the og teles n what not. the new pups are just cool looking humbuckers.

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:50 pm

If I had a line of reissue pickups they'd be called hump buckers

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:19 pm

I forget exactly but those pickups are actually copies of something Fralin made or something or other, to look like WRHBs but not actually sound like them. And they don't sound ANYTHING like even the reissue WRHBs. Plus Wideranges are HUGE and wouldn't even fit in the neck position of a Strat because they'd go off the bass-side of the pickguard. Strat single coils barely fit there.

So yeah, hotrod is kinda correct. I know it's the instinctual thing to say from the look and it's obviously what you're going for if you buy the cheap GFS ones and stick 'em in a Fender project, but those aren't WRHBs by any stretch of the imagination, they're cheapo ceramic-sounding (if not actual ceramic magnet, I was never clear on this) humbuckers. They actually sound less like regular PAF-type humbuckers than Fender's WRHB reissues do. I had one in an SG once but ditched it for a more vintage-sounding alnicoII PAF because it was too clangy and abrasive.