This Wide Range Humbacker Pickup, powered by the first authentic CuNiFe magnet in over four decades, is crafted to offer rich, bell-like humbucker tone with a full bass and clear treble. CuNiFe pickups are renowned for their sustaining "high-fidelity" sound, even under heavy usage, while the chrome cover and exposed "3 3" pole piece design with a Fender logo authenticate the vintage-1970s feel.

As popular music roared with the fatter tones of humbuckers at the dawn of the 1970s, Fender hired acclaimed pickup designer Seth Lover to create a distinctly Fender-flavored take on a higher-output dual-coil pickup. The resulting Wide Range pickup used large bobbins and threaded CuNiFe-rod magnets to achieve its distinctively brilliant sound, as heard on that era’s Telecaster® Custom, Thinline and Deluxe guitars. Sought after by musicians of all genres for decades, the original-era real CuNiFe-magnet pickups disappeared when the Telecaster Custom was discontinued in 1979.