Fender CuNiFe Wide Range Humbucker, Neck Pickup, Chrome Overview
The first authentic CuNiFe-magnet-powered Wide Range pickup in more than 40 years delivers rich bell-like humbucking tone with full bass and clear treble. CuNiFe pickups have “hi-fi” clarity yet never lose their attack and definition no matter how hard they are pushed. A chrome cover with a “3 3” exposed pole piece design and Fender logo completes the vintage-’70s vibe.
As popular music roared with the fatter tones of humbuckers at the dawn of the 1970s, Fender hired acclaimed pickup designer Seth Lover to create a distinctly Fender-flavored take on a higher-output dual-coil pickup. The resulting Wide Range pickup used large bobbins and threaded CuNiFe-rod magnets to achieve its distinctively brilliant sound, as heard on that era’s Telecaster® Custom, Thinline and Deluxe guitars. Sought after by musicians of all genres for decades, the original-era real CuNiFe-magnet pickups disappeared when the Telecaster Custom was discontinued in 1979.
- DC Resistance Bridge 11.2k - 11.8k, Neck 10.1K - 10.7K
- Inductance Bridge 5.3H, Neck 4.2H
- Lead Wire Single conductor coax
- Magnet Type CuNiFe
- Magnet Wire Polysol-coated
- Output Vintage
- Pickup Configuration Single Pickup
- Pole Pieces “3+3” exposed
