Building a Guitar ep17 Guitar Electronics part 2 Shielding

Shielding the Guitar with copper tape - and improvising with some aluminum fil! My guitar project. Buying guitar parts from all over and putting them together into a nice-looking and sounding strat-like electric guitar.

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[TheRealSonicYouth]

tht baby in the background scared the crap outta me but good vid man

[marcoamf1977]

@TheRealSonicYouth What baby?!!?

[TheRealSonicYouth]

@marcoamf1977 ummmm i thought i heard a small child in the background........

[marcoamf1977]

@TheRealSonicYouth Oh, probably. My 3-year old daughter. hahaha As I mentioned in some of the videos, this guitar was built at my apartment's laundry room, mainly during weekends.

[nickstur]

I am confused about this grounding, some videos dont mention it and some do. When i have finished applying my copper tape do i connect a wire to the spring claw to the tape?

[marcoamf1977]

@nickstur The principle is that "grounding" adds enough conductive mass to the ground wire of your electronics. So people usually attach ground wire to the spring claw, sometimes to screws or even the bridge (I heard there's higher risk of electric shock in this case). But if you do have the shielding, you can connect ground to spring claw and then somehow connect all that to the shielding tape.

[97warlock]

@fogaoagas from things ive read....if u have ground coming from the trem to a pot,then to somewhere else,then to somewhere else,if they arent ran in a sequence,it can cause a loop.

[fogaoagas]

@97warlock You CAN'T create ground loops on a passive guitar since there is only ONE ground. And that is the ground from the cable connecting the guitar to your amp... and so on...

[97warlock]

Theres 1 thing that truly confuses me.........Hope this makes sense to whoever reads it: When running ground wires in the cavity,If you "loop" a wire back to ground somewhere, it will create a ground loop,Correct? So....Why is it someone can encase the entire Cavity with foil or copper and it does NOT create a ground loop? Yet one single wire ran to a ground point can cause a ground loop. Anyone wanna explain this to me?

[nickstur]

@BlueSuedeTom Tom, i have recently shielding my strat guitar which had texas special pickups in. Before these suffered a great degree of hum but since shielding they have improved dramatically! So whoever is reading this it's worth the measly £5 i spent for the tape. Obviously it wont work for all guitars, but for £5 its worth a try :)

[nickstur]

@marcoamf1977 Cheers man, There's so many different ways of doing it i got confused, thanks for a clear explanation!