Finished my first Tele project! (pics inside)

[mcdmw]

I'm pretty new around here, but have I've been lurking for a while. You all are a wonderful resource. I've learned a ton!

About a year ago, I got a Squier Tele Custom II, and I loved it except, it wouldn't stay in tune and I hated the (yellow) color.

So I decided to build one with all upgraded parts.

I got a black Squier body off of Ebay, tuners pulled off of an SRV strat, lollar P-90s, CTS pots, a WD neck w/ satin vintage finish (cheap on Ebay), a waterslide decal (solely a tribute) and I put it all together.

I play jazz and blues (and funk!), and this thing really, really sings. I got to play it thru an original 66 Deluxe Reverb the other night, and I've never had a guitar with such a great bridge pickup. Gets a little nasty, but clear as a bell, and not harsh in the least!

The one issue I'm having with it that it buzzes like crazy. I know p-90s are loud, and I tried to shield with shielding paint in the cavities and shielding tape on the pickguard, but it's sure not working. If anybody has any ideas on how I can get it to quiet down, I'd love to hear em.

Anyway here are the pics; let me know what you think!

[jkingma]

The cream P90s look great on that guitar. Nice job.

[mgwhit]

Love the guitar. Is all your shielding grounded?

[mcdmw]

I thought so. I put a small screw inside the body cavity and tried to ground everything to that.

When I first got it all put together, I couldn't get any sound. Later we found that when the pickup wires would touch any part of the shield-painted body cavity, the guitar would make no sound. So we wrapped all of the pickup wire in electrical tape, and that seemed to solve the problem, except it's still super noisy.

[Faraldi]

Freaking beautiful!

Wonder how it would look with gold knobs...

If yer gonna bling, BLING

[Tidepoolbay]

Nice job!

[Southern Ill Electrics]

Very nice !!!!!


Get rid of all shielding besides what is up under the pickguard..........Drill a hole from where the bridge plate sits to your control cavity or pickup rout.........run a ground wire off your volume pot through the hole and screw your bridge back down over the ground wire.

Simular to this............

[Loudog99]

Agree with Plankster about grounding your bridge as he pointed out. I have Soapbar P90 in the neck of my tele and it's pretty quiet- no more noise than a standard single coil. Sounds like a grounding issue. I have the pots grounded to each other, tone cap grounded to pot, ground wire going to the jack, pickup grounds going to the volume pot and another ground wire going from the volume pot to the bridge as posted by Plankster. Works for me.

Beautiful guitar BTW! Love the black on black look with the cream P90s.

Lou

[mcdmw]

Thanks all for the advice! As soon as I get some time (who knows?), I'll get back in and see if I can't get it quieted down.

[jrich99]

Originally Posted by Faraldi

Freaking beautiful!

Wonder how it would look with gold knobs...

If yer gonna bling, BLING

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