Fender Original VINTAGE W.R.H.B. (Wide Range Humbucker) '71-'79 Chrome

For sale, one ORIGINAL 1970's Fender WRHB Wide Range Humbucker, in excellent shape, cover still sealed with original solder job, never tampered with, altered, or opened. This is one out of a matched set of 2 that I own. I was planning on keeping the other one, but if you really must have the set, I will let it go for $1150 total for both pickups, just message me and tell me that you want both before you purchase this one. In case you didn't know already, below I have included a little info about this iconic pickup, that has been used by some of the greatest guitar players ever, including Keith Richards.

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"The Fender Wide Range
Humbucker is a humbucker guitar pickup, designed by Seth Lover for Fender in the early 1970s. This pickup was intended to break Fender's image as a "single coil guitar company", and to gain a foothold in the humbucker guitar market dominated by Gibson.

The Wide Range pickup was conceived to be sonically closer to Fender's single coil pickups than Gibson humbuckers. Due to the difficulty of machining AlNiCo magnets into screw-type pole pieces, this concept called for the use of the more easily machinable CuNiFe (Copper/Nickel/Iron) rod magnets as pole pieces within the coil structures, to function more like a regular Strat pickup than a Gibson humbucker. Whereas Gibson humbuckers use a single bar magnet under the coils of the pickup, Wide Range pickups have individual CuNiFe magnets that were threaded and slotted to resemble the adjustable screw type poles of a Gibson humbucker. The pickup bobbins were wound with approximately 6800 turns of copper wire around the pole-pieces and the Wide Range pickup has a DC resistance of around 10 kΩ.

Due the use of the Wide Range Humbucker by legends of rock Sonic Youth as well as modern bands as Franz Ferdinand and the fact that the reissue FWRH sounds different from original, vintage pickups, demand has grown for the original pickup."