Tinning the vintage WR’s ground wire. It’s easiest to do this before you
mount a pickup into a pickguard or the guitar.
Using flush-cut dykes to remove a glob of solder before attaching the vintage
WR pickup’s ground wire to the reissue Tele’s volume pot.
The vintage WR humbucker (left) installed in the pickguard and now ready
for wiring. Notice the difference between it and the modern counterpart
with its exposed coil leads.