New neck for my Mexican Telecaster coming soon.

[Simon Barden]

Shielding will help reduce hum with single coils, but it will rarely reduce it completely. Obviously make sure the foil is properly grounded and don't forget to ground the underside of your scratchplate. I always do the whole undersurface. I run copper tape up from the control cavity (there's normally no gap between the control plate and the scratchplate so you can't see it) and across the top of the guitar to the neck pickup cavity, with plenty of copper around the neck pickup to make contact with the scratchplate copper.

Then it's all down to how electrically noisy your playing environment is. Playing at home I rarely get any noise from my single-coil guitars unless I'm too near the amp.

[DrNomis_44]

Shielding will help reduce hum with single coils, but it will rarely reduce it completely. Obviously make sure the foil is properly grounded and don't forget to ground the underside of your scratchplate. I always do the whole undersurface. I run copper tape up from the control cavity (there's normally no gap between the control plate and the scratchplate so you can't see it) and across the top of the guitar to the neck pickup cavity, with plenty of copper around the neck pickup to make contact with the scratchplate copper.

Then it's all down to how electrically noisy your playing environment is. Playing at home I rarely get any noise from my single-coil guitars unless I'm too near the amp.

I've found that if I play my Mexican Tele through my Boss Katana amp I don't really hear much hum coming through, but you're right, single-coil pickups are notorious for picking-up any electrical noise, it's the "nature of the beast", having a good solid ground connection to the bridge helps a lot too.

Apparently the Tonerider Hot classics are wound/wired so that if you select both they act somewhat like a humbucker, I like them so much I don't really feel the need to swap them out for something else, I did see a set of EMG Tele pickups somewhere, possibly on the Stewmac website.


Only four more days, including today, till I finally get the new neck ordered online.


Buying one of these:

https://stratosphereparts.com/fender...c-shape-maple/

It's a 22 Fret neck and the stock neck is a 21 fret neck, the new neck has an overhang just after the 22nd fret, so as far as I can see he heel should fit the neck pocket, should be virtually a drop-in fit with zero mods, same radius and scale-length.

My understanding is that Fender's Player series of guitars are what used to be Fenders made in Mexico series of guitars, Fender would have used the same specs for the neck heels and neck pockets so a Player series neck should fit my Telecaster.

Since The Stratosphere usually part guitars out and sell the individual parts, I shouldn't have to go through the stressful process of cutting string slots in the nut to get the 1st-fret action right cause it has already been done at the factory when they put the neck on the body.