tdizzle wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:58 pm
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I don't think these guitars are well shielded, if at all....
While the wiring spec for the 60th Anniversary
58 shows brass shielded cavities and a shielded pickguard ..
https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Orig ... 3-7-18.pdf
.. it sounds like the the 60th Anniversary
Classic (based on the
66) is different ...
Cooperman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 4:04 am
I thought I'd offer an update on my black 60ty Anniversary Jazzmaster Classic. ......
There was zero shielding inside the cavity. The tech ( Rob at Soundpure Guitars in Durham, NC ) grounded everything in every which way he could. The result, this is the nicest guitar I have ever owned. Dead quiet ( some very faint 60 cycle hum ) and sounds and plays like butter. I know everyone says these pickups are just noisy by nature, but these are dead quiet after proper shielding.
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tdizzle wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:58 pm
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They tell you it's the pickups, but clearly, if it stops when you put your hands on metal, it is not the pickups.
That's not quite an obvious conclusion. The body is a big electrolyte antenna for EMI. You ground it when you touch the (grounded) strings. Pickups are amongst the most likely means by which the body's (and other) EMI is picked up by the guitar, when you are
not touching the (grounded) strings. However, if you test that by walking a long way from the guitar and the noise remains much the same then obviously body EMI is not the major source of the noise
in that given case / environment. But it is still the pickups and any unshielded wiring that is picking up that other EMI from the guitar's environment.
tdizzle wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:58 pm
... Anyone successfully shielded a guitar?
Yes .. the OP it seems (see above).
You can buy the brass shields or do it yourself with double-sided conductive copper tape ..
http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/vie ... s#p1518302
Or make the brass shields from brass sheets ...
http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.a ... 3456,43407
Make sure the brass shields are grounded like in the 58 wiring spec above.
"I just knew I wanted to make a sound that was the complete opposite of a Les Paul, and that’s pretty much a Jaguar." Rowland S. Howard.