Tuesday, January 11, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We want to say thank you for bringing in all your guitars for us to work on.
We are so grateful to be able to do what we love and look forward to more in 2011.
Have a safe, happy and healthy New Year,
Gary, Liz, Allen, Fern, Tim, Leo, Kirkwood, Glade, Trevor, Rob, Robert,
And of course the Bassets, Primo aka "Killer" and Jo-Jo aka "Bonkers"
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Copper Shielding a Stratocaster
There are many ways to shield and ground a guitar. I could write a book, (hummmmmm) Or did I..
I'll get into more details in the future. For now here is a nice photo of a copper shielded guitar and pickguard. Notice the seams are soldiered and it is burnished down in the cavity very clean and tight. There is a wire connecting the copper to the jack ground.
The most important thing about any shielding job is to ground what ever material you use as a shield otherwise it will act as an antenna and the noise you are trying to keep out.
I can't tell you how many times I have seen aluminum foil stuffed into the cavity of a guitar. If the guitar is luckily enough to even work it is very noisy. Another odd thing I see more often than that you would think is manufactures using shielding paint in pickup and tremolo cavities, sometimes even for cosmetic reasons with no ground attached. The pickups are a set of J. M. Rolph very authentic vintage Stratocaster pickups. We are also installing his proprietary noise reduction system (not in the photo)
I'll get into more details in the future. For now here is a nice photo of a copper shielded guitar and pickguard. Notice the seams are soldiered and it is burnished down in the cavity very clean and tight. There is a wire connecting the copper to the jack ground.
The most important thing about any shielding job is to ground what ever material you use as a shield otherwise it will act as an antenna and the noise you are trying to keep out.
I can't tell you how many times I have seen aluminum foil stuffed into the cavity of a guitar. If the guitar is luckily enough to even work it is very noisy. Another odd thing I see more often than that you would think is manufactures using shielding paint in pickup and tremolo cavities, sometimes even for cosmetic reasons with no ground attached. The pickups are a set of J. M. Rolph very authentic vintage Stratocaster pickups. We are also installing his proprietary noise reduction system (not in the photo)
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