Hi Alkay. Presume you mean the copper shielding in the control cavity? Do your finishing coats first, let it cure, turn when you are ready to assemble do the copper shielding. If you mean shield painting the control cavity don't apply any tru oil in the cavity. I'd still do the cavity after the tru oil coats
Last edited by wokkaboy; 02-06-2016 at 10:10 PM.
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Oh ok...um pictured on this page that I bought:Originally Posted by wokkaboy
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ht=alkay+paint
Ok cool thanks wokka,
I'll do the TO first.
Hi Alkay, just finished off my two F styles and sadly had to use copper snail tape in the control cavities to get rid of some buzzing therefore conductive shielding paint was a fail on the single coil PUP versions but worked fine on both Explorer shapes loaded with humbuckers.
Suggest getting all your top coats done before doing the shielding paint and if that doesn't work out so good, just add a bit of copper tape to a section at a time until buzzing, if any at all, disappears. On my J Bass I only had to add copper foil tape immediately beneath volume pots & output socket which saved me having to remove PUP's unnecessarily.
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