Strat making static noise when touching pickguard?

[BoneNut]

Damn it. Dang wires don't reach!

:facepalm:

[_pete_]

Damn it. Dang wires don't reach! :facepalm:

Then swap the neck & mid pup's wires at the switch.

[BoneNut]

Then swap the neck & mid pup's wires at the switch.

 

Thanks!

[Pope on a Rope]

 

If the shield isn't grounded, it's useless. You can usually ground it without using solder, but it does need to be grounded.

 

 

Just use a screw. Put the bare wire between the screw head and the foil, screw it down and away you go.

[AXEL276]

To get rid of the static sound caused by dragging your fingers across the pickguard all you need is alumn foil. You don't have to solder it tp anything. Mark (above) I just did this fix on a tele for a friend a couple of weeks ago, worked perfectly.

Yes I agree, if you want to go full out and shield the cavity, and the pickguard and tie it all together and solder to it then copper would be better.

Some of the better quality relacement pickguards come with alumn foil already glued to the back.

Where do you even find THIN copper foil these days?

[BoneNut]

I've used this online stores many times without any issues and they carry everything needed.

 

http://guitarpartsresource.com/electrical_shield.htm

[japstrat]

I had already bought some copper from here, relatively cheap: http://www.whimsie.com/copperfoil.html

I already cut one up using an exacto knife, it was about the thickness of a business card. Not sure if copper is any better than foil but I like to over do it when I mess with stuff? I've just been putting things off til now. I wasn't sure which pups to get or what tone capacitor resistance to go with, but I'm pretty set on a Fralin BS set and a .1 cap from sozo (what Callaham uses in his strats). Thanks for the info, hope this gets rid of the noise.

[honeyiscool]

 

Then swap the neck & mid pup's wires at the switch.

 

That defeats the purpose of the mod, which is that you get neck + bridge with hum cancellation.

 

This does happen sometimes, I usually just splice a wire in to make the middle longer. But that's because I know I want the mod. It's a little much for something if you're not sure.

 

That said, if you do the switch mod first and you like how it sounds, you can then take the step to splice an extension wire in and physically swap.