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hey just wondering if anyone knows exactly how to sheild pickups with sheilding paint. Is there any spacifics or just paint them?

The shielding paint is used in the guitar cavity, and can be used to shield the pickup cavities. Some prefer to use Foil Tape, Copper Adhesive, instead of shielding paint. If you haven't already, I would check out Guitarnuts.com. There is a modification under Wiring and Shielding called quot;Taming The Beastquot;. My guitar cavity is lined both with shielded paint, as well as foil tape. The pickup cavities are only shielded with foil tape, although Copper would be the best for this situation. If you have anymore questions just IM me.

Oh, you need to disconnect everything. You can remove your pots, or just tape them off. I would remove the wiring though, it will make things much easier.

well i was just wondering how to sheild pickups them selves.

You can shield pickups with copper foil tape you could also use aluminum flashing tape from a hardware store. First you need to solder a ground wire onto the tape and then wrap the coils with the tape. Some pickups have shielded coils some don't. I have a single coil Jackson pickup that is shielded but it doesn't make a huge difference. The hard part is getting the solder to stick to the tape.

Snowdog


Originally Posted by idsnowdogYou can shield pickups with copper foil tape you could also use aluminum flashing tape from a hardware store. First you need to solder a ground wire onto the tape and then wrap the coils with the tape. Some pickups have shielded coils some don't. I have a single coil Jackson pickup that is shielded but it doesn't make a huge difference. The hard part is getting the solder to stick to the tape.

Snowdog

Aluminium flashing tape can't be soldered to. Copper is better.

It's more important to shield the cavity than the coil.

If you are going to use copper foil you should check that the output of the coil is taken from the blind (inner) side of the coil. If the screen is proximate to the output (signal) side of the coil there will be a noticeable loss of h/f owing to the capacitance effect created by the screen. With the output coming from the hidden end of the coil the outer windings form part of the earth circuit and the screen doesn't add any additional capacitance to the circuit.