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Permalink Reply by Joker on January 30, 2011 at 12:49am

grounding, grounding, grounding. always the cuplrit of hum  The more you are able to bond the metal parts to the ring of the jack the better 

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Permalink Reply by JJ on January 30, 2011 at 4:40am

is there any good way to solve this problem? i already have a black ground wire, should i solder it better?

Joker said:

grounding, grounding, grounding. always the cuplrit of hum  The more you are able to bond the metal parts to the ring of the jack the better 

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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on January 30, 2011 at 5:13am

Yes, resolder your ground making sure the solder flows well. Another thing is try a different guitar cord. Possibly a faulty cord. You may have to also run a ground wire to the strings somehow.

Don

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Permalink Reply by JJ on January 30, 2011 at 5:25am

do you think drilling a hole right next to the bridge and soldering a wire to the bridge where the the strings lay across then soldering the wire to the ground on the jack would work?

Don Thompson said:

Yes, resolder your ground making sure the solder flows well. Another thing is try a different guitar cord. Possibly a faulty cord. You may have to also run a ground wire to the strings somehow.

Don

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on January 30, 2011 at 6:28am

I have had the same problem and it turned out to be a bad jack, no matter how many times I soldered it, replaced the jack and now its fine. The jack I used had a bad crimp from the ground to the solder points, it just spun around. Buy good jacks!  All the other things mentioned above also do happen, test them all.  The bad jack was very frustrating because it looks fine, but works crappy.   good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on January 30, 2011 at 7:32am

Also good advice.

MichaelS Country Boy Guitars said:

I have had the same problem and it turned out to be a bad jack, no matter how many times I soldered it, replaced the jack and now its fine. The jack I used had a bad crimp from the ground to the solder points, it just spun around. Buy good jacks!  All the other things mentioned above also do happen, test them all.  The bad jack was very frustrating because it looks fine, but works crappy.   good luck.

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Permalink Reply by JJ on January 31, 2011 at 11:10am

It was the jack! i re-soldered the piezo to a new jack and that completely got rid of the hum! but now instead of giving me a hum it had really bad feedback. so i put some hot glue on the underside of the piezo, squished it directly under the bridge, put a generous amount of hot glue on top to encase the piezo and that completely solved the feedback issue! i couldn't be more happy with the results. it completely blew my expectations out of the water sound wise. i will only be using the hot glue method on future builds. i posted pics on my profile! its tuned G-D-g which i really love so far.

MichaelS Country Boy Guitars said:

I have had the same problem and it turned out to be a bad jack, no matter how many times I soldered it, replaced the jack and now its fine. The jack I used had a bad crimp from the ground to the solder points, it just spun around. Buy good jacks!  All the other things mentioned above also do happen, test them all.  The bad jack was very frustrating because it looks fine, but works crappy.   good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on January 31, 2011 at 12:54pm

I love it when a plan comes together!!!

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