OT: Electric Guitar - fix for static noise?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

I have a wonderful Stratocaster, but whenever I briefly touch the  
pick guard with my right hands pinky (which happens all the time when  
you play) a small amount of static power is built up and creates an  
unpleasant audio artifact. This must be a well known issue for all  
you guitar craft savvy people on this list? How can it be fixed?

This Strat has a great sound except for that static power noise. I  
have brought it when doing studio musician labor and my  producers  
have always picked this guitar before any other. But at such  
important recordings I have been forced to play in an uncomfortable  
way, making sure I never touch the pick guard by mistake, or putting  
loads of Gaffa Tape on the pick guard, making the Strat look like a  
piece of junk (which it actually is, because I partly built it  
myself). Now I've finally set my mind on fixing this noise issue one  
time for all, since I'm going to use this guitar for looping at a  
public guitar show later this spring. Don't want those "little noise  
sprouts" to get multiplied in my loops.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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