Some months ago, I shielded my strat. Clean sound, no noise.

Always keep it clean. As well trying to keep the same temperature in the room it mostly stands in when not in use.

Plays a lot. Every day. Rock'in a classic 70, 3-Color Sunburst Maple.. First electric guitar I've had.

What's up with your strats?

How did you shield your strat? I have an old MIM Standard Strat that I tweaked to sound really dirty, which I love, but the noise coming from the pickups is sometimes unbearable.

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My strat is never cleaned, polished, or left dust free. I allow it to breath and let the usage show itself so anyone who sees it knows that guitar is not a piece of art, but a tool for creating art. (But it still looks pretty sweet!)

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First thing you do, find some copper-tape/shielding-tape on a guitar store or something


Next step is to remove the pickguard, the jack-input and the cover-plate for the tremolo if you want to do it like I did. But the most important thing is to make a good shielding round the pickups. I just shielded round the tremolo and made a better connection between the tremolo and ground, just to be sure I've done a god job.

This thing is realy simple. Just cover the inside of the guitar, the holes under the pickups with sheald-tape and insert a small cable between the area you covered with tape and ground on the jack. (Tip: If you do it like one big connected area you can avoid a mess of ground-cables.)

Then you can shield the inside of the pickguard. Just make sure that you have a good connection to ground.

Sorry if I don't explain well. But you can google it or find it on youtube.

After I plugged in my strat again was a silent moment. And it's a clear tone to. No noise who ruins my effects and dives.

Last word: recommended!

The day when the paint-job on your strat looks ugly and worn out. I shall respekt you for having an old guitar.

Like road worn guitars as long as you don't smash them in the ground, during a concert! That makes me mad..

i agree...wiping down my fretboard/body paint once every few weeks is probably the most i clean mine. but i also have a MIM strat, when i get my american one it may be a different story. i personally like those wall hanger things, seems like theyd be good for keeping the guitar out of harms way/falling over. i accidentally kicked over my martin acoustic this morning getting out of bed, i always immediately run over and apologize to my guitars they fall or get hit in any way and then i realize what i'm doing and feel like an idiot haha.

Ahh man - that sucks!! It was Ok I assume?!?

I leave the couple (always the newer ones) I play most out on stands, and I do worry - but the convenience so far has outweighted my fears! Though I did have a chair get tipped into my MIM - not a good thing!

It won't ever looked ugly and worn out if I clean it....

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Hehe.. Hey, btw: are you from Detroit? Ben ther once, landed by plane to visit some people I knew in Monroe near Toledo.. Stayed for two weeks. Wonderfull place.

Maybe I'll check out the blues in Detroit next time, se if you people got some god places you play. If you recommand it

Will try this shielding once i get my new pickups in. By the way, what pickups did you have installed ?

Don't know, realy.. Guess it is what is originaly installed on the Classic 70 Stratocasters;)

http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0137002321

You can find specifics on the link.. I have one of those, only that it is a 3-Color Sunburst..

Were discussing with some friends about changing the pickups.. They said I could get way better sound. Any suggestions, about wich pickups I should install?

i dont want to sound cliche'd but better is subjective. what kind of sound are you looking for? blues, metal, hard rock etc?

I sheild mm strats, by wrapping them in aluminum foil, with just the strings, pickups and controls poking thru. That way the aliens cant find them.......

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