Re: Electric Guitar - fix for static noise?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 18 jan 2007, at 11.04, akbutler@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> So the pickguard is metal?

No, it's plastic. The standard.
(Strats do generally look totally ugly to my eyes, but a metal  
pickguard on top of that would be just awful! I use strats for the  
sound and not for the looks ;-)

On 18 jan 2007, at 11.17, Arne R. Skage jr wrote:
> Touching the pickguard
> should not cause any problem if it's the standard plastic kind,

Yes, it's the standard plastic kind. I guess this leads into going  
with Claude's conductive copper foil tip below...

On 18 jan 2007, at 11.18, CV wrote:
> conductive copper foil under the pickguard tied to  guitar ground,

Thanks, Claude, I'll try this!
Everything else is of course well grounded; from the twang bar  
springs on the back to the machine heads on the top of the neck. I  
stay free from hum by touching some metal part when playing - that's  
a no-brainer because I usually hold the twang bar with some finger of  
the right hand anyway.

BTW, changing the pickups is not an option. The single-coil vintage  
(low output and treble-ish) sound is just perfect!

Greetings from Sweden

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