Quick Discussion on Copper Shielding (specifically on a Jazzmaster)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a brief chat about how I like to do copper shielding on a guitar body. Full disclosure, I have only done this twice and by no means claim to be an expert. However, I've done a lot of research on the topic and am sharing what worked best for me and what I learned along the way. This was a clip from my previous Jazzmaster-style guitar build video that cut for time reasons. Anyway, I hope you find this discussion useful. Thanks as always for watching.
Very helpful video and straight to the point, explaining what is needed. Thanks for posting it!
let's say the grounding cable will be connected to the vibrato instead of the bridge. Wouldn't you need to shield the space beneath the vibrato as well?
Great video and very useful tips👍🏻
Nice neat job. You didn't put a ground from the vol pot to the body tho like it's recommended.
Thanks for watching the vid & for the kind comment. I did actually install that ground as the last step. It’s attached to one of the bridge thimbles. Must have forgotten to mention that in the vid. Good eye though! :)
Super cool channel. Just subscribed. I built a jazzmaster and the pickups sound great but are SO SO noisy. Unbearably. So I shielded my pickguard and cavities in the exact same way and there was zero difference. I checked continuity and everything. How effective is this method? What could I have done wrong?
Admittedly, I've only done this twice, but both times I noticed a difference (on my Jaguar, and on my Jazzmaster). Both are much quieter (in terms of interference noise and buzz - hardly any unless I'm cranking up some heavy distortion, but even then it's within normal). That said, if you feel you did everything right, I would suspect something else - a loose wire connection, a low-quality cable, the outlet where the amp is plugged in. It could be any number of things, might have to do a little trial and error trouble shooting. I once had an issue like that with only 1 guitar (not any of my others), and it turned out to be an issue with a guitar cable. Unfortunately electronics can be tricky, what works in one instance might not be the best solution in another. Good luck sorting out your issue.
Did you ground the shielding?
any word on your previous results on a quiet jm?.. i really think it had to be some issue other than correctly-applied shielding not working. However, there could be reasons perhaps, that go beyond my knowledge/experience level. Cheers! hope it works, and you can hand down valuable info!🙏🏻 Cheers!🍻
I watched all four of your videos in this series, and I was wondering if you experienced much noise with your pickups? I own a Squire Jazzmaster, I've shielded the entire cavity (first with conductive paint, then with copper foil with conductive adhesive, like you did), and shielded the entire back of the pickguard. I don't have any grounding issues, but do have an issue with my pickups - when in the rhythm position, I don't encounter any noise, and when in the lead position and the pickup selector is in the middle, I don't experience much noise, but when in lead mode, and the pickup selector is set to EITHER the neck pickup or the bridge pickup, I get a lot of noise. I've checked the grounding, and checked the wiring, and am certain they aren't the issue. I think my next course of action is to buy replacement pickups. I was wondering, did you experience any noise issues when set to lead, and the 3-way switch is set to either neck or bridge?
Sorry for my delayed response. I've been pretty lucky with both my Jaguar and Jazzmaster with very little noise, unless I have distortion on and it turned up really loud (but no more than would be expected from any guitar with lots of distortion on the amp or petals). I know you said you checked the wiring, but I gotta say, it sounds to me like you could have a loose wire contact, maybe coming from the switch? Or it could even be the switch itself (it may need a little contact cleaner spray, or replaced - I've heard of those going bad. I can't imagine it would be your pickups. I did have an issue where a wire came loose on my jaguar. As it was coming loose I started to notice strange sounds (when on the lead circuit only) and then it just plain cutting out. I traced it back to a wire coming loose from one of the pots - not sure if you saw that short vid I posted about that. But if you checked all the wiring and solder joints, and are sure that's not it, I would suspect the switch next. Those are a fairly inexpensive part. Good luck trouble-shooting. i know that can be pretty annoying.
How well did it work?
Would you still need to shield the back of the pick guard if it’s a gold anodized metal one?
If the back of the pick guard conducts electricity then I would guess no, you wouldn’t need to do that. You can check that with a multimeter.
I did this but now my lead circuit just doesn’t work :( only rhythm circuit works
Sorry for the delay. Sounds like you maybe compromised a solder joint to one of the pots when you pulled things apart (all it takes is 1 wire to throw things off) - or maybe one of the connections is actually touching the copper foil inside. Did you get it solved? Again, sorry for my delayed reply.
@@johnathanschaaf8731 no worries! I fixed it. I think something hot was touching the foil on the inside. It’s still a little confusing how that would short it out though since it seems like it should all be connected in some way but I guess not
@@HappyChillmore Glad you got it sorted out. :) Yeah, that electrical stuff can be finicky.
Just put a thin strip between the pickup cavities - it will make contact for continuity- u can solder to it also