Keep teaching the world sir, never stop

@SixStringSupplies

5 жыл бұрын

Dante Rosales I will do my best sir, thank you!

Had horrible noise from my squier strat vintage modified unless I was touching the strings. Watched your video, followed to the t and now experiencing noise free strat bliss. Thanks a lot, man!

@cydonia9342

2 жыл бұрын

If it went away when touching strings, that's a grounding issue.

@Limpuls

2 жыл бұрын

@@cydonia9342 That is the most common misconception about ground on the internet. The issue is with the ground if the buzz doesn't go away when touching metal parts. And even his comment confirms that. Otherwise if it was lose ground cable, how shielding the cavities woud have fixed a lose cable?

@saroly16

2 жыл бұрын

@@cydonia9342 you don't have a clue about electricity

@breal6718

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely a good Mod.

@breal6718

2 жыл бұрын

Im gonna do the same thing asap.

This is one of the best videos I've seen for PROPER shielding. Thank you.

Another thing that works for non-conductive adhesive is to fold a part of the overlapping copper tape over so it touches the joining piece and just cover it with a small piece to hold it down. Just a small strip at each overlap is all it takes.

@davidkay3443

10 ай бұрын

Does that negate the need for soldering then ?

Can't believe I was considering stacked single coils in my strat to resolve the hum. I've shielded a Tele and an SG in the past. Doing it to a strat was by far the easiest and the difference was night and day. Good tutorial bud.

My heart is so happy that I just did my first ever guitar shielding haha! I've watched your video and it really helped me a lot! It was so fun. Thank you for this video 🙏✌

I did this to my fender jimi hendrix style strat, and after replacing the input jack and volume pot because I messed them up soldering (was my first time soldering anything), I put it together and it sounds GREAT!!! Now I have to do it to my other strats! Thanks for the video.

I finally shielded my Squier strat and the results are fabulous. I followed your instructions and it works 100%.

The best guitar shielding video I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing.

Great video. I appreciate your attention to details. I especially appreciate your explanation for adding the ground from the body to the volume pot.

Good Job! Very comprehensive and best explanation on how to create a decent and useable Faraday shield in a Strat. I will be using your method in the very near future, Thank You so much Bro!

Just like to say you did a great job making the video and showing exactly what to do. You explained everything and now I feel I would have no trouble shielding my strat. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It is much appreciated.

@SixStringSupplies

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

just finished and tested this, man this is night and day difference! my guitar is so quiet now! thanks for clear instructions, God Bless you!

Thank you for your explaining, made huge difference for me. Already did it with my previous build. Had everything covered in copper tape but didn't connect the cavities. Now i'm ready to rock!

@guitarpoetone1

3 жыл бұрын

Thank u question if u have humbucker pups do u think u still have to cover it with copper tape ?

Great job. Finally a proper shielding video.

@SixStringSupplies

5 жыл бұрын

John Rose thanks!

@vanizell7937

3 жыл бұрын

I know right. You must be the all knowing master of everything....fucking dick

@blackbeltjones2903

2 жыл бұрын

@@vanizell7937 chill

Your channel is extremely underrated

@SixStringSupplies

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. Yeah the feedback is overwhelmingly positive, however it’s hard to keep up and publish content regularly. 🙏

@FLAMENCO961

5 жыл бұрын

@@SixStringSupplies keep on making videos! This is the Best Chanel about guitar wiring

It was all going so well and then in the last few seconds “thanks very watch for muching” 🤣 Excellent video mate. I’m still finishing my paint and then I’m coming back here to follow your instructions 🙌

this channel is a GODSEND. Been binging your vids on wiring and such, thanks so much for all your work 🔥🙏🏻

That looks amazing, I before and after sounds test would be cool.

Most concise videos about guitar maintenance online. Thank you!!!

@SixStringSupplies

Жыл бұрын

thanks - really appreciate that!

This completely transformed my old CIJ Jaguar, properly soldered the ground wire and shielded the lot, it’s absolutely noiseless now

Amazing job. Well done. Congrats.

Love this demonstration. Perfectly done. Thank you sir

One important item to also consider, when you solder your input jack back in; make sure to electric tape or shrink some plastic over the soldered connection on the hot wire (white in my case). If you don't, the wire can make contact with the shielding causing it to ground (no sound). Ask me how I know.... I did this to my strat this week and it was incredible how much quieter it made it. I didn't need the extra wire from your video but thank you for the tips on the rest! Bought the stuff on Amazon for around $13 and its the best investment in making my guitar sound better. Total time takes about an hour start to finish if you go slow and make everything clean.

You're a Wizard, Harry.

@ChrisJohnsonChannel

4 жыл бұрын

haha thats what i thought too

Thank you so much for this video! I've been looking for one for weeks

Super clean!! Great job

I'm late to comment but thank you, you explained this process perfect and clear!

Thanks, I needed to see how to complete the ground to the tape.

One way to get around the solder blob between every piece is just bending over the edges. Shielding my guitar, I would bend over an edge of one piece that laid on top of the other and then I'd put another little piece taped over that just to hold that folded edge down. I have full continuity from one cavity to the other across all cavities without issue. I did need to solder a wire from the neck cavity to the control cavity on to the copper shielding (it was a tele) but it worked well, I stopped picking up radio stations.

Thank you for the video. I followed everything you did and I still had buzzing really bad. Thought it just wasn't gonna work but when I pulled the pickguard back off I saw that one of my grounds had came loose. Soldered it back and now it's the quietest guitar I own

Great! Well presented with attention to the details and explanation.

Great video. You showed every step!

Thanks for that; I’m making a kit guitar now, and this info is very useful for making the best job I can.

Thank you man! I am going to try this. Great video as well!

Thank you for not only describing what to do, but also demonstrating what to do. Great, thorough instructional video (as always)! Beautiful , neat, clean work. Much appreciated.

Thank you!!! Best shielding video I’ve seen!!!!

Great video! I added shielding tape before seeing this video and now I understand what is missing to complete the job, er Faraday cage. It looks like I'll need to add tape under my pickguard in place of your fancy metal plate. My ground wire to the trem claw is already there but now I know how to ground the cavity tape to the electric bits, and ground/connect the cord cavity to the main cavity.

many thanks man, really didactic. I will do it as part of modying my strat to include the EC boost 😁

o melhor de todos que já vi, muito bem explicado...

Awesome tutorial! Thanks 👍

thank you for this wonderful knowledge

Thanks for the great tips!

Jack socket plate to main cavity is connected. The ground from the socket is attached to the plate which touches the copper tape flared around the edges.

Thank you so much Sir❤

Fantastic video, thank you very much.

0:57 thanks for also explaining WHY one would do this! I want to learn as much as I can about working on guitars, and I feel understanding the why is just as important as how... So yeah, thanks :)

Very good shielding video! Bear in mind that the guitar is being grounded to the amplifier via the guitar cable. Hence, the output jack and plate are the first grounded elements of the guitar. If you leave foil tabs to be captured by the jack plate and the pick guard (scratch plate) foil (or shield plate) everything else in the electrical "chain" will be inherently grounded. Adding the soldered wires is good insurance, though. Shielded coax cable from the jack to the pots is also recommended.

@AndrewAviles

4 жыл бұрын

So if I understand correctly, potentially no soldering is needed? as long as there is contact between the jackplate, foiled pick guard, and foiled cavities?

@willster7272

10 ай бұрын

thats what i was thinking do you have to put that wire to connect the twp cavaties? @@AndrewAviles

Tnx for this tutorial benefited from it!

very fine job!. Looking do this on my LP

@SixStringSupplies

Жыл бұрын

Have fun!

Great video Thanks!

That was a great video. Thank you.

@SixStringSupplies

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video!

Nice one. Much appreciated

I remember 2020 i also did this to my strat really helpful

Hi there! Very Very excelent job, I'll copy it, Thanks 😊

Amazing Job and Useful information great Vid.

@SixStringSupplies

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@breal6718

2 жыл бұрын

@@SixStringSupplies Will be lol

Good video - but beware! I took the opportunity to do it to a Strat whilst making a wiring mod to the volume and tone controls, so when it was all done and I had no output signal I assumed it was down to my new wiring being bad. But it turned out to be a short circuit between the shielding in the jack socket cavity and the positive pin of the socket itself, which was making contact with the shielding when re-assembled. The only way to definitely avoid that contact was to remove part of the jack cavity shielding. It took a while to figure that out, but the good news is, even though lots of people on here are sceptical, the process has indeed removed the hum.

@markalexander4641

3 жыл бұрын

John Howarth Glad it worked for you. But another approach would be using a rotary rasp bit on a drill motor to remove the little bit of wood required to gain some clearance. Then recover that spot with a bit of foil tape. That way you're not compromising your otherwise complete job. A second, admittedly Mickey Mouse solution would be to place a tiny strip of duct tape on the backside of the jack's offending contact point.

@Sobchak2

3 жыл бұрын

Could you simply apply some insulating tape around the positive pin of the socket?

@kewlbug

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about this situation the whole time before I read this comment. lol

@whalenbrinton

3 жыл бұрын

this could be happening to me , I'm not sure . I have no sound - could the metal of the body of the volume knobs contacting the copper be the issue. idk where the short is : / - ill check in the plug in

@HappyHermitt

2 жыл бұрын

I took that into consideration while shielding my strat. I protected the jack leads with elec. tape. Works great

Thank you.

neat work

Good info, but your last wire was redundant because the copper tape coming over the top edge of the cavity is going to be making contact with your aluminum pick guard shield. Ppl can make sure that happens by explicitly adding extra little pieces of tape at a few places coming over the edge but hidden under the pick guard.

@chadjohnson-authormusician8072

Жыл бұрын

He did specifically address this in the video. He said it's not necessary, assuming you've done a good gob making sure the back of the pick guard is touching the cavity tape. Just in case it doesn't contact it, for whatever reason, that wire acts as a backup.

@tomashguitar638

Жыл бұрын

That ‘backup’ wire is not only unnecessary, it works against the effort because it forms a ground loop. Instead of undoing yourself, take the time and do it properly.

@jeffwonk2024

8 ай бұрын

You don't get ground loops with passive circuits like this.

You can get copper tape in b&q its in the garden section used for slugs

I appreciate this

nice job

Good stuffs 👍🔥🎸🎼🙏

Brilliant video, very clear and consise, always so informative! I just wanted to ask: For a telecaster shielding - where is the main ground coming from (versus the strat term claw)? and would you shield the entire scratch plate with copper tape or just the central piece and a piece going toward the control cavity so that it all connects? Thank you for your dedication with these videos - they are so helpful.

@979259

Жыл бұрын

it comes from the bridge

A very good tip apart from the mainstream bridge grounding. Thumbs up!

great video, how did you manage to solder the second ground to the volume without the first one coming loose? its for this reason that grounds are the bane of my existence!

thanks

I saved this video. Thanks for making it.

@SixStringSupplies

4 жыл бұрын

That’s pretty cool, thank you 🙏

Good work, bro! Can you show difference between without and with this Faradays cage?

10:22 "W@nk" scratched into the desk LOL Reminds me of school... Also: very useful vid, going to do my Strat shortly. Thanks!

is that jumper wire for the mic input cavity to the pickup/controls cavity still necessary? because when you wire them all up and reassemble the ground of mic input jack is already grounded to the shielding of its cavity and its ground wire is already connected to the ground of the potentiometers which are also grounded already to the shielding of their cavity.

Thanks for this, great video

@SixStringSupplies

5 жыл бұрын

No worries mate! Glad you enjoyed it

Doesn't that layer of aluminium under the scratch plate connect the separate cavities, making the soldered wire redundant? Surely, there's no p.d. between the soldered wire and the bit of copper touching the aluminium? Or is it just a belt and braces approach (I've no doubt the soldered connection is better than just physical contact)? Or have I missed something?

Ok this works but is a bit of effort. I did this on a MIM HSS Strat just like the video shows. However in the cavity where the guitar output jack goes I found that the foil (ground) could touch the hot (signal) end of the jack when when jack plate is inserted and screwed in. I fixed this by using some electricians tape on the foil side where the jack end could touch and also added a bit of this tape around the jack tip area. I posted this just to let others know what may be the problem when there is no sound when plugged into an amp.

This video is so helpful. I’m from Poland and you just explained it to me better, than many local resources. Thank you! I have just one more (maybe stupid) question. The ground in my Squier Jaguar is conected with a cable going from the jack, through the little hole, to the tune-o-matic stud. Is it fine as it is or should it be connected to the pot? I think it doesn't matter, because it's the connection between the elements that matters, but I'm a total noob when it comes to electronics, so I recon it's better to just ask. Again, thank you for this awesome video! ❤️

Yeees Works 💯%Fenomenal foil. 🎸👍👍👍

Thank you sir, very informative and comprehensive. Was just wondering why, if this is so important, that most guitars don't come like this from the factory. My strats just have a bit of black paint in the control cavity and a bit of aluminum on the inside of the pick guard around the pots. The guitar is as quiet as a mouse!

@AndreaAustoni

3 жыл бұрын

Then yours is shielded. My Fender bass came like that but they half-assed it and I had to redo it with copper tape.

Does it matter if your grounding wires have sheathed around them? I've stripped the sheath back obviously for soldering points but wasn't sure if it has to be bare copper wire or if it can be sheathed on the outside?

Amazing you bru

What kind of solder do you use?

Ever tried shielding single coil pickups ? I’m told you wrap “pickup tape “ around the coil a couple times to completely cover the coil , then put almost 1 full wrap of copper tape on top of that , but to leave a slight gap so as not to kill of some of the high end. Can’t remember if there was an extra step to finish the process such as connecting the tape to the pickup ground

@Mogwai06

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I've read too. Im thinking of giving it a shot soon also. If youve already tried it out, let me know your outcome if you would. Just curious. Good luck!

Thank you for addressing the adhesive continuity bit! I have been wanting to do this with my noisy Strat, but the adhesive not being conductive has kept me from doing it!

So with the shielding in the guitar, could you just ground everything yo the shielding, or does it all need to kind of collect at the back of the volume pot, or whatever each might call theirs? Could free up quite a bit of space in mine if I could hust ground to the shielding...

I’m really curious, does this copper shielding affect the tone by any chance? thanks!

hey man i change the pick up on my squire and the gound noise did not remove what should i suppose to do maybe because of the wiring?

What heat setting did you use with the Hakke solder?

I didn't want to mess with it so I took mine to a guy to do it. Still got a lot of hum afterward and it turns out they didn't shield the jack cavity. Would that really make a lot of difference?

what type or wire did you use for grounding the copper? im still confused of what wire should i use.

so if my tone pot is buzzing when its all the way up? does that mean its a grounding issue

My pickguard is completely backed with copper foil. Won't that connect the cavities? Do I need that wire jumper?

Does the shielding copper tape have glue or sticky on the back, or is it just solid copper foil?

When connecting the jack cavity to the pickup cavity, could one feed the cable through before the copper shielding tape goes down rather than soldering it in place?

Great! why do you need to have continuity between different cavities? If they’re all individually conductive, what does soldering a connecting wire actually add? Thanks

@daviasdf

Жыл бұрын

You don't explicitly need continuity between the different cavities, but the shielding needs to be grounded to work. Doesn't matter how you accomplish this. Eg. the small cavity could be grounded via contact with the output jack, and the main cavity can be grounded via the face plate shield to the pots, but the additional wires he added ensure continuity to ground (as long as one cavity is grounded, the other will also be grounded).

Nice video man! I have a question though, can't you just dress the underside of the pickguard with copper instead of buying an aluminium plate?

What did you use for the grounding? Is it a certaint type of wire

Is the 5-way switch the wrong way round?

Question, instead of soldering a wire through the input jack hole could I just put copper tape through the hole?

Gentleman,Why is important to ensure the continuity (electricity) in this faraday cage?