"Wide-O" Single Coil Voiced Humbuckers - Set

Magnets: Alnico 2

Poles: Flat

Coil Wire: 43AWG Plain Enamel

Lead Wire: Vintage Cloth Pushback or Vintage Braided

Output: BRIDGE 8.3k - NECK 7.4k

Wide-O BRIDGE Single Coil Voiced Humbucker Pickup

With the lower output magnets the tone is classic single coil - clean, bright with typical bridge bite. The bridge pickup has a thin non-ferrous copper baseplate underneath the magnets to shift the resonances toward the lows, resulting in a slightly fatter, more pleasant tone.

With the fully charged magnets, when the volume is rolled up the pickup has a more modern aggressive & biting attack with an output that can really drive an amp - somewhere between a higher output Tele bridge & P90. Still bright with lots of air but balanced by more in the mids.

Wide-O FAT BRIDGE & Neck Humbucker Pickups

A fatter bridge/neck pickup due to the mix of higher & lower charged magnets. Where the standard Wide-O bridge/neck is single coil voiced in a humbucker size, the Wide-O Fat Bridge/Neck replaces the slugs with low charge staggered Alnico 2 magnets. Each string has its own magnet. The difference with this fatter bridge is that the lower charge pole magnets widen the area of string magnetised, creating a beefier tone but unlike the humbucker where the bar magnet lies underneath both the slugs & screws giving an even spread of magnetised string, this variation gives the tone of the point of magnetisation over the pole with a kind of residual tone of the string above the slightly magnetised opposite pole.

This in effect is similar to the sound fading from magnet to slug which is somewhat fatter than a single coil but not as beefed up as a humbucker. Essentially a single coil with more presence. The bridge pickup has a thin non-ferrous copper baseplate underneath the magnets to shift the resonances toward the lows, resulting in a slightly fatter, more pleasant tone.

Wide-O NECK Single Coil Voiced Humbucker Pickup

With the lower output magnets the tone is sweet, clean & warm in the neck position with clarity and great string definition. With the fully charged magnets the tone has a more modern brighter, snappier attacking voice.