4/n The #guitar in the pictures above is a Squier thinline 70s style that came with #Widerange #humbuckers. I won't go into the WR pickups now except to say that those fitted on squiers and reissue fenders are not true WR pickups, and they sound like a rather boring and generic chinese humbucker, which is what they are under the unusual cover.

The WR pickups are larger than a standard humbucker - in fact they are the largest guitar pickup I am aware of.

This presents an opportunity in that it gives me more space for my own design if I make one to fit a WR space.

So here's my design adapted to fit in a WR space. I have made the bobbins wider and a little shallower which will tend to warm the pingy #fender tone a little. I have also used the extra space to accomodate using the thicker 0.071mm wire on both bridge and neck pickups as this lowers the resistance, and I assume also the output impedance and capacitance. My neck pickup in the posts above above wound with the thicker wire sounds good so I thought I'd use it for these as well.

I made the mounting frame so that it fills the gaps to avoid losing plectrums or other objects in the hole.

This pickup has not been tried yet. I have made a bridge and neck set.

I am using alnico 2 magnets for the neck and alnico 4 for the bridge as a warmer alternative to the typical alnico 5 magnets used on fender pickups.

I expect the tone is somewhere between that of a #stratocaster and a #jazzmaster.

Up next is the guitar of mine that is probably my favorite, but don't tell the others: REY (of the #StarWars Sequel trilogy fame; she was named in December of 2015 so you do the math).

Rey is a Squier Vintage Modified #Jazzmaster and is the guitar that really began my love affair with #Fender offsets. I replaced the stock pickups with a Fender Pure Vintage '65 set and honestly it might be one of the best decisions I've ever made. This guitar does all the alt rock/indie punk stuff I could ever ask for as well as basically everything else I can throw at it. This was another impulse layaway purchase, but I don't regret a single thing. It does make me feel a bit tiny to play, but that's not always a bad thing :3 The body is just so massive compared to my other guitars, and the Fender scale length doesn't do it any favors in that department. I've thought about other upgrades, but I've always decided against them because Rey is perfect the way she is <3

Hardware, cnt'd:
Stringjoy Signatures Bass VI Balanced Medium Gauge (24-90) Nickel Wound Guitar Strings
StewMac Black Humbucker Mounting Rings
Schaller Non-Tremelo Roller Bridge
StewMac Dome Knobs
D’Addario Planet Waves Elliptical End Pins
Electrosocket Jack Mount
Gotoh Battery Box

Finish:
Z-Poxy Finishing Resin as grain filler
SprayMax 2K Clear Gloss