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Re: Atchley's

6/13/1999 0:20 AM
tracy	Re: Atchley's Have you tried shielding the individual pickups. I did this to a friends guitar and he claims 90% reduction in hum. I used 3/8" inch electrical tape around the pickup winds if there isn't already a tape covering. Be careful , you only have one shot at it because if you take it off you'll tear a wire for sure. Thats all it takes to ruin a pick up is one little broken strand. Then I cover the tape with 3/8" copper foil stickey backed tape. This is the shield and is almost as good as a metal cover. This tape can be found in stained glass art supplies and is used to wrap glass pieces to be soldered together. The last instruction is to tie this tape to ground. On a strat type single coil, solder a small 1/2" long piece of small solid gague wire to the copper foil tape. solder the other end to the negative pickup wire at the eyelet soldered connection. Your shield has been created. Do this to all single coil pickups in the guitar. Don't be too suprised if this does work very well.

6/13/1999 0:20 AM

tracy

Re: Atchley's

Have you tried shielding the individual pickups.

I did this to a friends guitar and he claims 90% reduction in hum. I used 3/8" inch electrical tape around the pickup winds if there isn't already a tape covering. Be careful , you only have one shot at it because if you take it off you'll tear a wire for sure. Thats all it takes to ruin a pick up is one little broken strand. Then I cover the tape with 3/8" copper foil stickey backed tape. This is the shield and is almost as good as a metal cover. This tape can be found in stained glass art supplies and is used to wrap glass pieces to be soldered together. The last instruction is to tie this tape to ground. On a strat type single coil, solder a small 1/2" long piece of small solid gague wire to the copper foil tape. solder the other end to the negative pickup wire at the eyelet soldered connection.

Your shield has been created. Do this to all single coil pickups in the guitar. Don't be too suprised if this does work very well.

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