I had a thought about twisting the wires inside the git.  I was delivering a gift build to my friend, we played it a bit with a portable amp, and there was a LOT of hum from the multiple overhead fluorescent lights in his store.  this moring it occurred to me that copper phone lines and computer CAT5 cable twist the conductors around each other to reduce noise.  It ought to work inside a git.

The blue arrows are the "induced" current flow in the wire loops from fluorescent light EM Noise, the yellow arrows are the charge flowing in the conductors, each loop opposes the next, much like a hum-bucker.

Anyone try this and found if it makes a difference?

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This is called a dummy coil. People would put a Strat type pickup under the pickguard/top panel and wire it in series with the other pickup. But the dummy coil has all its magnets and /or poles removed, otherwise it's just a regular double coil pickup. 

the hubcap was already grounded, thats why i had just a tiny bit of hum. in my other instruments, there is no such big grounded surface, so those hum more.

If any of your wire are longer than 1 inch in you guitar or amp. you should twist them to combat unneeded noise.

Then you can clam your guitar/amp is 'Twisted". Haha 

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