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I may have gone OTT on the cavity shielding.[emoji15]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...13d8acabd4.jpg
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Hope nothing shorts out
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You may have jinxed me WazQuote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
Not OTT at all. I normally leave a lot more foil on the top to make contact with the foil on the pickguard, and run the foil around several screw holes to maximise contact area. You'll never know exactly how well/flat the pickguard sits on top of the body, and so how much of the tape is in contact.
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I normally run the foil to the holes marked in red, and fill in the yellow areas with foil as well. It doesn't look as neat with the pickguard off, but it's not going to be seen.
Tin foil hat too perhaps?
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You can never be too careful.
In the words of the song....Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
“Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you...”
Thanks for the tips Simon, I’ve enough shielding left to do some bridging on those points.
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I couldn’t help myself, I had to mock up. Though I have found there are some significant electrical gremlins to over come.
I don’t have buzz, I don’t have microphonics, in actual fact I have nothing.....nothing at all.....I am, puzzled, to put it mildly.
I have noted that a lot of the solder joints in the factory pick guard were ugly, like, hated mother in law ugly. There are snipped wire ends still imbedded in the earth connections on the pots and the connectors. Most of them looked almost corroded around the periphery of the solder blobs as well.
The volume pot looked shot so I have replaced that with a new alpha pot.
Both the tones were wired with caps to the middle connector, and wired to switch from the left connector. I’ve since re-wired to a standard Strat diagram
https://guitarelectronics.com/strat-...iring-diagram/
But still no dice on noise...any noise at all. I’m going to back track from the Jack forward and see what else I can proof test.
I’m really hoping it isn’t the switch.
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As Waz warned about the grounding...
Loosen the jack plate cover and see if you get any sound then. The tip prong on the jack connecting to the shielding is a common event, and you just need to either put some insulating tape over the foil or rotate the jack so it doesn't happen. Preferably both for safety.
Would that not still give some sort of buzz?
Jack plate was my first thought too, plug goes in and shorts the hot arm/tip onto the shielding. Or, if your control cavity is a fraction shallow then switch lugs and/or its solder blobs could brush the shielding on the bottom once the scratchplate is screwed down tight.