I'm building a guitar (still) and it's gonna be a strat clone. I'm calling it the Frankencaster cos it was built entirely from the carcasses of dead ebay guitars. It's all single coil, so it needs tobe shielded.
How do i do this?
Ask and you shall receive. Here you go Strat Shielding 101
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that is insanely useful!!!
I have copper tape laying around my basement jsut like the rolls on Stewmac...I can use that right???
Also, I saw on those pics that the bridge ground wire was soldered to the aluminum...does that mean i can solder the ground wire from the bridge to the copper foil? Or do I still have to go from my pickguard (i got a prewired one for now) or can I skip that part?
You would be best served, on a strat, by using a star ground as described at the guitarnuts site (i.e., 1 wire to ground, connected to a ring to which all other grounds are connected). Less chance of a ground loop that way, cause the strat wiring with the grounded shielding can get to be a bit of a brain teaser, otherwise.
