Just finished shielding job

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On my Peavey Strat copy

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looks good, just make sure you put it on the ground circuit and to put it on your pickguard as well, that will be one quiet axe! Heres the shielding i use on all of the guitars i make in my shop, the allparts shielding is really great!

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quickie job I did yesterday on a partosupercaster I'm putting together - heavy aluminum foil and rubber cement. It's what I had laying around. I think copper tape might be easier, though.

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Copper will stretch and give a bit while aluminum just tears if you don't get it just right. Fit the aluminum competely and carefully first, lift it out and trim where needed, and then use some glue according to glue instructions and ease the molded aluminum shield back in.
 
"Experts" on MLP.com swear this doesn't do anything to help noise and is also a detriment to "tone." I dunno either way, really.
 
FourT6and2":3u2rkj1x said:
"Experts" on MLP.com swear this doesn't do anything to help noise and is also a detriment to "tone." I dunno either way, really.
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interesting. Full link please? Mlp.com doesn't seem to pull up what you think it pulls up
 
Guitarzan1143":3nn91ssm said:
looks good, just make sure you put it on the ground circuit and to put it on your pickguard as well, that will be one quiet axe! Heres the shielding i use on all of the guitars i make in my shop, the allparts shielding is really great!
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Can you explain how to put it on the ground circuit?
 
Assuming you used quality shielding tape, the adhesive on the bottom shouldnt interfere with the connection of each piece of copper to each piece of copper, if it DOESNT then you have put a solder joint on each one, bridging each one to the next to connect them.

basically what you gotta do is put a ball of solder on one, put a ground wire from the ball of solder to the top of a pot. then take your multimeter, put the ground on the pot, then touch the hot to each single piece of tape and make sure you get 0.00. this will tell you if each piece of tape is ground or not, if its not ground, then its not benefitting you at all having it in there.
 
thisguy":2r21h9gm said:
Guitarzan1143":2r21h9gm said:
looks good, just make sure you put it on the ground circuit and to put it on your pickguard as well, that will be one quiet axe! Heres the shielding i use on all of the guitars i make in my shop, the allparts shielding is really great!
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Can you explain how to put it on the ground circuit?
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If you look real close at my picture you can see where I put a drop of solder from the bottom piece of foil to make a circuit to the side pieces of foil. When I'm ready to install the pickguard assy I will run a wire from the ground and solder it to the foil. Right now I can put my OHM meter probe on the bridge and the other probe at the neck pickup cavity and get a signal.

I sure don't understand why those other guys don't think this will help with noise? :confused: Every stray signal the guitar come into will be send to ground.
 
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