Camacho

Just finished another.25 in scale ,mini humbucker, hardtail bridge,volume and tone and .45 cal tuner knobs.still has a little hum to it
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  • Thanks for the fix ideas

  • Review your solder work, that’s the #1 cause of hum besides worn cables, eventually the strands of wire inside them get brittle from age/use & breaks, believe it or not, this creates noise? But before you replace a capacitor, test the capacitor on a meter to confirm the cap is faulty, could be the solder joint was faulty? Cheers :)

  • I recently had a build with a hum after everything was wired right. I isolated each component in the signal path, starting with the pickup, and worked my way to the output jack. The culprit was a leaky tone cap, which is typically a 25 cent part. New capacitor and the hum is gone. Even when not in use the bad cap would leak to ground.

  • I like the look. Hope you get the hum worked out or at least to a tolerable level.
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