tommy wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 1:43 pm I just picked up a 2012 Fender FSR American Vintage Reissue 72 Telecaster Thinline in Black.

It's already had the pickups replaced with Fender's new reissue CuNiFe Wide Range pickups. Pretty stoked. Been wanting to do that to one of these reissues they only made for a couple of years (or with a MIM one). The FSR version has a beefier neck with bigger frets and a 9.5 radius. This puts all of the specs even closer to my long-ago sold/missed 1980 Telecaster Deluxe - but with the addition of an f-hole and a pickup switch that I won't accidentally hit.

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:24 pm

tommy wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 1:43 pm I just picked up a 2012 Fender FSR American Vintage Reissue 72 Telecaster Thinline in Black.

It's already had the pickups replaced with Fender's new reissue CuNiFe Wide Range pickups. Pretty stoked. Been wanting to do that to one of these reissues they only made for a couple of years (or with a MIM one). The FSR version has a beefier neck with bigger frets and a 9.5 radius. This puts all of the specs even closer to my long-ago sold/missed 1980 Telecaster Deluxe - but with the addition of an f-hole and a pickup switch that I won't accidentally hit.

What kind of pots are in that bad boy? I've heard that the WRHBs came with 1meg pots back in the day, but that Fender says to install their reissues with 500k pots.

tommy wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:07 pm I should have noted that I have ZERO experience with Squier JM pickups. My advice is mostly for traditional US JM pickups in the 7K range with the wide short bobbins. The MIJ ones are the WORST. Both the MIJ JM and Jag have the thinnest squealing pickups I've ever heard. I'd hope the Mascis ones are better. In fact, aren't they supposed to be more like P90s on that model?

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:24 pm

tommy wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 1:43 pm I just picked up a 2012 Fender FSR American Vintage Reissue 72 Telecaster Thinline in Black.

It's already had the pickups replaced with Fender's new reissue CuNiFe Wide Range pickups. Pretty stoked. Been wanting to do that to one of these reissues they only made for a couple of years (or with a MIM one). The FSR version has a beefier neck with bigger frets and a 9.5 radius. This puts all of the specs even closer to my long-ago sold/missed 1980 Telecaster Deluxe - but with the addition of an f-hole and a pickup switch that I won't accidentally hit.

What kind of pots are in that bad boy? I've heard that the WRHBs came with 1meg pots back in the day, but that Fender says to install their reissues with 500k pots.

tommy wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:59 am

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:24 pm

tommy wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 1:43 pm I just picked up a 2012 Fender FSR American Vintage Reissue 72 Telecaster Thinline in Black.

It's already had the pickups replaced with Fender's new reissue CuNiFe Wide Range pickups. Pretty stoked. Been wanting to do that to one of these reissues they only made for a couple of years (or with a MIM one). The FSR version has a beefier neck with bigger frets and a 9.5 radius. This puts all of the specs even closer to my long-ago sold/missed 1980 Telecaster Deluxe - but with the addition of an f-hole and a pickup switch that I won't accidentally hit.

What kind of pots are in that bad boy? I've heard that the WRHBs came with 1meg pots back in the day, but that Fender says to install their reissues with 500k pots.

Follow up:
I pulled the pickguard when I changed strings and they either left or changed the pots to 250K audio (not sure what this 2012 shipped with originally, but 250K seems an odd choice). The pickups are visually confirmed as the new CuNiFe though - backing up my ohm meter readings. After some research into the original 1970s wiring diagrams and Fender part numbers, it appears the humbucker version of the thinline used a 1M audio volume and a 1M linear tone pot originally. The bridge pickup sounds just about perfect with the 250K and the neck pickup is a little dark with the tone knob wide open - so I think I'm going to change the pots out but can't decide whether I'm going with 1M or 500K. Moving some questions about pot value influence to another thread.

brownreasontolive wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:46 am 250K ohm was standard for vintage Fender strats and teles.

tommy wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:00 am

brownreasontolive wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:46 am 250K ohm was standard for vintage Fender strats and teles.

Well, yeah, but not most of the Teles made 1972 - 1981 (Tele Deluxe, Tele Custom, Tele Thinline) and certainly not typical for humbuckers of any brand.