The Warman "Texas Vintage Rangers" arrived a few days ago (pretty quick, buying from Europe to Perth is usually faster than East Coast to Perth!).
Fitted them on the partscaster I have been building up this morning. Impressions so far, on a barely setup guitar with dead/used test strings:
- Great build quality, fibre base, neat poles and fabric insulation on wiring.
- Sound is brilliant for the A$53 landed price of the set. Great replacement for basic strat pickups.
- Neck and middle pickup very good, a bit brighter than I usually like, but it is also a new guitar for me. Easy fixed by rolling off some treble. Bridge pickup I'm not so sure about, will reserve judgement. (comparison is to Benson 63s in my Pacifica and my Eric Johnson Strat with Lollar neck pickup)
- Likely with be swapped over to my Pacifica and the Bensons to the partscaster.
So in conclusion, a great value upgrade to basic pickups or for freeing up some more worthy pickups :-)
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