Anyone ever mag swap a Full Range Humbucker?

[eclecticsynergy]

Curious after someone asked about them on another forum.
I'm assuming the internals are similar but I know the FRH is slightly larger than a regular humbucker.
Does anyone know if the FRH uses a standard size magnet?
And do you think a mag swap be similarly easy?

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Anybody?

 

[freefrog]

Curious after someone asked about them on another forum.
I'm assuming the internals are similar but I know the FRH is slightly larger than a regular humbucker.
Does anyone know if the FRH uses a standard size magnet?
And do you think a mag swap be similarly easy?

You're talking about Wide Range Fender HB's? Never opened one of these but you might find an answer in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=212&v=EDSPqp2gZtU&feature=emb_logo

AFAIK, original WR HB's had a reflector plate instead of the mag while the poles were threaded CuNiFe rod mags. IOW, a vintage WR is closer to a Stag Mag than to a P.A.F.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

You're talking about Wide Range Fender HB's? Never opened one of these but you might find an answer in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=212&v=EDSPqp2gZtU&feature=emb_logo

AFAIK, original WR HB's had a reflector plate instead of the mag while the poles were threaded CuNiFe rod mags. IOW, a vintage WR is closer to a Stag Mag than to a P.A.F.

Thanks, freefrog - didn't know that.
Haven't seen an original up close for decades; I'd assumed they all used screw poles and a bar mag underneath since all the recent ones are like that.
Another "reissue" that's way different from the original, like Gibson using mini hums instead of real Firebird pickups.