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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on March 13, 2019 at 3:38pm

Looks like a lot of extra unshielded wire in there which could be acting like an antenna picking up electromagnetic interference. I'd get rid of that and just use the shielded wire from the pickup. Also you should ground your bridge so the strings don't also act as an antenna.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony williams on March 13, 2019 at 4:09pm

Ok, thank you for your response, will give it a go. When grounding the bridge, connect from the bridge to anywhere on the guitar or into the wooden body. 

Regards

Tony

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on March 13, 2019 at 5:17pm

Normally you ground to the back of a volume pot but I don't see one so I assume you don't have one, in which case ground to your output jack.

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Permalink Reply by JL on March 14, 2019 at 1:53am

I see what looks like 3 wires coming out of the pickup, which looks like a hummbucker, 2 wires joined together as 'ground/earth'

You might be shorting the second coil to ground by connecting the ground and the 2nd wire together.

unsolder the wires and use a multimeter to check the resistance (ohms) between each of the wires from the pickup and report back...

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