Are these Wide Range Humbuckers the same?

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:06 am

I am currently scoping out parts for my upcoming Jag-stang project. My plan was to used the wiring and pickups from the Pawnshop Mustang because I liked the pickups and the switching options for each humbucker. My problem at the moment is coming up with the WRHBs that come in the Mustang Special because I don't believe they exist on any other guitar I am aware of. I found some other WRHBs and wanted to know if it's the same thing and if I can modify it to use the switching of the Mustang special that lets you switch to either single coil and the humbucker. Also, can you take a normal Enforcer WRHB and put it into the smaller cover? Thanks for the help.

The Mustang Special Pickups are described as: Enforcerâ„¢ "Wide Range" Humbucking Bridge Pickup with downsized Wide Range covers

(ebay) Fender telecaster wide range pickups micros reissue (These aren't the Enforcer WRHB, but they are the smaller size)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/180712644152?ss ... 1423.l2649

(eBay)Fender Enforcer Wide Range Telecaster (these look like the pickups out of the J5 Triple Tele since the seller has 3 of them)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Enforcer ... 2eb71e9d3b

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:30 am

Those are just Fender Enforcer pickups with a wrhb look to make people spooge mojo moneys, not that they don't sound good!
that being said...

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:46 am

Haze wrote:Those are just Fender Enforcer pickups with a wrhb look to make people spooge mojo moneys, not that they don't sound good!
that being said...

Are you talking about the Enforcers on the Mustang or the J5 Tele?

I know that none of them are like the WRHBs from the 72 thinlines. I have played the Enforcer pickups on a CP Jaguar HH and the Mustang Specials pups sounded tons better to me and split coils much better.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:03 am

Funny thing, different guitars may sound different once in a while

The j5 pickups probably have the wax filler, while the newer ones just have smaller cases.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:10 am

The main thing I am after is to find a similar pickup that can use the wiring setup like the Mustang Special. I don't want to buy one of these other pups and find out I can't split the coils the way I want to.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:17 am

Check out wiring diagrams from fenders site on those models to see which ones have 4 condoctor wires on the pickups. Chances are they are all 4-wire with the north end and south start soldered for always humbucking.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:10 am

The ones in the mustang pawnshop specials are not the same as the ones in my '72 tele deluxe reissue. The tele ones are much bigger. The mustang ones are normal HB sized.

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:25 am

I don't think that the reissue WRHBs are coil-splittable, and are huge too.
I have found these pickups, normal-sizes WRHB pickups, click on the 'lead wire' option to change from 'vintage braided' to '4 wire'. They aren't cheap, but you could be waiting forever for a set of the Pawnshop pickups to come up for sale.

You could, of course, just get a pair of splittable Gibson-style humbuckers?....

littlericky · Post by **littlericky** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:28 pm

Didn't realize these were different pickups in different cases than the RI Tele pickups