Hi Folks,.

I am building an electric guitar [ made my own box ] using a metal sign for a top, and wondered if it would be a good idea to put that copper shielding on the "lid"/sign. Also wondered if I do shield the sign if it would also be a good idea to shield the inside of the guitar cavity. Any help would be appreciated. I'll be using a pickup from Gitty for the build.

Thx

"rickyboy"

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I forgot...

The cavity cover plate was shielded with aluminum paper
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hi and thx to everyone for your help......I'm not a complete idiot  but I have to say that some of this in the explanations is like a diff. language. { there's a reason I printed the newspaper for a living and wasn't an electrician  ..ha ha ha  }  But I WILL figure this out.One thing I liked hearing was that not everything needs to be shielded but everything should be grd.'d. And that you can use aluminum foil to shield and that it doesn't need to be copper. I have some one sided metal tape I could use under the pick up and the vol/tone controls/pots. I'll keep checking back here to see if there is additional info.. Thx folks !!!!!!!!!

Great...

You're of the right track.

Nothing about being an idiot here, I worked in electronics all my life, until I retired. So these things are easier for me. But don't ask me to take care of your budget, I'm not good with numbers.

Have fun...

Oh, and I tried the aluminum foil for aliens, and maybe that I should had tried the thicker one because it didn't work...

And that's why I shield my guitars, because I picked up a strange radio station a few times when I was younger, because the strings were acting like an antenna...

I fell for all that over shielding once. Never again. If your not going to be playing under florescent lights or within 20 yards of a large electrical station you will never hear the difference. Most of your pops and hums are going to come from the electricity itself. Or improperly grounded equipment. Not much beyond getting a line conditioner is going to help there. Lot cheaper just to live with it. 

My band played a gig in a little bar in an older part of town with apparently really bad wiring, really bad noise through my amp, and as I moved around, turned, changed angles, the noise changed pitch/tone/volume, and the character of the noise changed when the kitchen used the industrial grade mixer.  Clear indication of RF noise.  The only place it disappeared was when I straddled the floor monitor and turned 2/3 away from the audience, which didn't present well visually, lol.

That's the blues

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