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I'm working on my first multi-pup build: a mini-humbucker, and a tele-style single coil. Both pups are covered, and the electronics will be grounded to the bridge. Does the inside of the build need to be shielded?
I would put it together and see if there's any problem first. If you've bought commercial pickups (sounds like it?), and you're grounding to the bridge, your guitar will be shielded as well as any commercial guitar - which is not perfect but probably good enough. Putting foil all over the inside of the box takes awhile, and it makes the box noticeably heavier.
Scotty C. said:
I'm working on my first multi-pup build: a mini-humbucker, and a tele-style single coil. Both pups are covered, and the electronics will be grounded to the bridge. Does the inside of the build need to be shielded?
That's good information, Skeesix, however I must elaborate on one part. I bought individual saddle bridges -- the kind that go on bass guitars and get screwed-down one at a time. While my wiring harness has a bridge ground wire, I'm not sure how to get each of the individual bridge components connected, since they're going to be between 10-15 mm apart. I suppose I could try and lay the ground underneath all of them, but the wire would show.
My other thought is to use a small sheet of thin brass I bought at Blick Arts; I could have the ground wire underneath the sheet and sit bridges upon it.
Skeesix said:
I would put it together and see if there's any problem first. If you've bought commercial pickups (sounds like it?), and you're grounding to the bridge, your guitar will be shielded as well as any commercial guitar - which is not perfect but probably good enough. Putting foil all over the inside of the box takes awhile, and it makes the box noticeably heavier.
Dan Sleep
The high end custom guitar builders use copper foil and stick that to the bottom of the pickguard. On a three single coil pickguard the copper foil will cover all three pickup routed holes(the foil will surround the routed holes by an inch or so on the edges) and be placed under the volume/tone pot and five way switch controls too. Then the copper foil will be cut out where it is covering the pickup route holes and the holes for the volume pots and five way switch. Grosh guitars would also place solder on a seam of the copper foil. All of the copper foil is soldered to ground.
I would do it on a single coil pickups, but on humbuckers I would not worry about it. You can use cheap aluminum foil out of the grocery store, but it is not as good of a conductor as copper. Just a cheap alternative and you would have to use and adhesive to stick it down. I have some old pickguards off of Kramer guitars and they used aluminum.
Sorry about responding to an old thread like this I was wondering if anyone have some photos of box cavity shielding like this?
I'm pretty close to installing my pickup and I'm pretty sure it's a single coil and not a humbucker. Only two leads coming out of it. The two being what I assume to be hot and a braided ground around it. The whole deal is in a single sleeve shield.
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