Wide range Humbucking Pickup Reissue

[Stereordinary]

The neck heels on Tele Customs/Deluxes are different.  Going for what you have in the picture there, I'd say start with a Custom and add the Strat hardtail and bridge Wide Ranger.  Or is that what you already said?

[Jaded]

Thats one of the things i was thinking about, was just making sure the the necks wouldnt work.. sorry about the post gone, i thought i put it in the wrong part so moved it to the "mods, projects, restoration"

thank you very much  answered my biggest question

[djetz]

That 1% is the killer for you, then. The Fralin Twangmaster does indeed have two full rows of polepieces, 12 in total, just like the original WRHP, and unlike the P-bass pickup, or the G&L Z-coil, which are of the design you're describing. That makes you 100% wrong. Aren't percentages fun?

and you're getting your informaiton from where, exactly? the “Twangmaster” is just a P-92 with AlNiCo rod magnets, and if the P-92 had 2 full rows of polepeices then, well, it'd just be an “average” humbucker, not a “noiseless”, humbucker-sized, “P-90”, or, in other words, a P-92! Fralin himself calls both pickups “split singles” on his website!

I'm getting my information from pickup makers who've taken the damn things apart. Fralin calls them "split singles" to describe the sound, not the way they're built. He's not describing the design in detail because he wants to protect his work, but people have taken them apart, and there are discussions on pickup building forums of these pickups that show exactly how they're made. If you continue being an annoying know-it-all and trying to pick fights, I'll search out the information again.

So, exactly where are you getting your information? I'm guessing it's your imagination. I trust people who design and build pickups for a living, not people who haven't checked their facts.

[do not be afraid]

I'm getting my information from photographs I've seen of the damn things with their covers off. Fralin calls them "split singles" to describe the sound, not the way they're built.

Yes, the Twangmaster has rod magnets, as does the original Fender WRHP. Neither uses bar magnets, and neither is of the design you're talking about. Seriously, before you start mouthing off, you really need to know what you're talking about, and in this case you don't. You are flat out wrong. I didn't save the photos I saw, but they're online somewhere, as are detailed discussions of the design. If you really want to look even stupider than you already do, I'll see if I can find them again and we can settle this.

to be completely honest, i'd like to be proven wrong! i try to learn as much as i can about these things, and if that's how they're built i'd like to know — but, in my mind, a “split single” is a very specific type of design, and everything i do know about those pickups falls right in line with that, including Lindy Fralin's own description.

i really can't see how a “split single” describes a type of sound, though!

yeah i just played a tele deluxe at gc. actually sounded like my gibson (played through a fender deluxe amp). so i'm guessing they aren't vintage correct, but they don't sound bad. good guitar for fender feel and gibson sound, at least from my experiance

that's what i thought at first too, but, the more i play them, the more i realize it just ain't so! yes, they sound more like a Gibson than your “run-of-the-mill” Telecaster, but they still sound completely like a Telecaster, in their own unique way!