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Post subject: Pick Guard Static
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:40 am
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Recently purchase a new Am. Standard love playing it but, I occasionally get a poping static noise when my pick hand fingers drag or touch the pick guard below the strings. Any comments?


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Post subject: Re: Pick Guard Static
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:20 pm
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bradyman wrote:
Recently purchase a new Am. Standard love playing it but, I occasionally get a popping static noise when my pick hand fingers drag or touch the pick guard below the strings. Any comments?

You can try fabric softener on the pickguard.
This will minimize the static electricity.
But it won't completely eliminate it and it will wear off.

The real cure is to cover the back of the pickguard with copper tape and ground it.
Copper tape can be obtained from Stewmac.com, Amazon.com or elsewhere.
Cover the entire back of the pickguard and make sure that it is grounded.
Solder a ground wire to some copper tape that you place down in the body routing, that goes to the neck pickup.
Extend the copper tape up to the top of the body where it can contact the copper tape on the back of the pickguard, creating a ground.
Your popping will be history.


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Post subject: Re: Pick Guard Static
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:48 am
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Thanks for the advice.


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