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http://www.thefret.net/showthread.ph...ghlight=static
What do you think ? My Nashville seems to generate some anoying static scratchiness if I rub the pick guard. Seems worse if I have the middle p/u switched in.
What say yee ?
thanks
Ted
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The search button is your friend!Originally Posted by ted s
This is the time of year you'll run into this--humidity levels in cold climates can get really low, making static a much bigger problem. Besides the obvious guitar grounding enhancements, rubbing down the pickguard with a clothes dryer anti-cling sheet really does work very well!
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Use a "Bounce" dryer cloth to drain the static. Or.........................humidify the room you play in.
I get that once in a while on very dry days.
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Well, we've past the most humid season here, I still have it. I'm going to have to rule out lack of humidity and start pointing to the pick guard material itself. The bounce sheet does rectify for a period though.
Love the guitar but the pick guard drives me nuts. My $99 Jay Turser Strat never has a static issue.. go figure..
I can't play Strats for that reason, and none of the folk remedies (Bounce sheet, anti-cling laundry spray, anti-static electronics spray, etc.) will prevent it. Shielding the cavity does not help. Those things work for a lot of people, and those things work so well for so many people, that those people become convinced that those things will work for everyone--but they won't.
AND just like your guitar, ted s, it's only on the middle Strat pickup of my Nashville Tele that I have a static problem.
However, though the entire guard can become charged on a Strat pickguard, I isolated the problem on my Tele to being present only when my finger brushed against (in my case) the lower mounting screw of the Strat pup.
I cut a very small piece of black electrical tape and covered the head of the screw. That solved the problem.
Try that and see if it works for you.
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Yes, lower screw, same here. Something I've tried since posting above, under the pickguard, I made a wire connection between that blasted middle pup screw and the tone/switch plate. The static from the guard is less but the popping and cracking from touching that screw is GONE.
Originally Posted by Highway_61
Sure it does. Works like a charm. Then again static is probably subjective also.
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This may be stupid asking but I will anyway. Do all Strats have the metal foil on the underside of the pickguard? I recently changed my pickguard on a new one and transferred the metal backing. This guitar does not have static at all. I know what you are complaining about because I have had guitars in the past that do this. That drives me nuts!
vinni
Thanks for reminding me Vinni, I keep meaning to do that with my Tele, it has none but cheapi Strat does, go figure..
You might like these, I had good results.
http://www.monteallums.com/sheilding...html#pickguard
good to know, thanks chordshredder
No, sorry; it won't.Originally Posted by Tone2TheBone
It must work 99.9 % of the time or people wouldn't recommend it to others, but those things will not work for me.
I promise you that I have tried. I truly think I have a bit of an electrical charge. I get a spark when I put the key into the lock of my front door when I come home. I get a spark when I get out of my car.
I have tried all of the remedies, and I can testify that "always" (as in this remedy will always work) does not apply.
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I'm as electrically charged as you...same thing...get out of the truck, touch the body and zizzz get the shock. I'm surprised I haven't blown up while gassing up but I swear to you that rubbing bounce sheets on a pickguard and properly shielding your guitar cavity and pickguard should help. I would agree with you with that 99.9 % figure though...for what it's worth. *shrugs*
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Highway;
we had some carpet at work that was shocking everyone, we had rubber covers on the door knobs even. we started spraying the room every day with a fine mist from a trigger head spray bottle with a concotion of one drop of liquid detergent per gallon it helped a lot. you might try that if you have carpet.
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