Bounce dryer sheets can help eliminate static when touching the pick guard…it’s an old trick….and can be effective too.
new control plate?
- Thread starter funkyhead64
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pipthepilot
Tele-Meister
Lug 1 is on the left when you'r looking at it from the top of the guitar. When you're looking at it from the control plate lug 1 is the right lug.
old school fender
Tele-Holic
Just got through a similar problem with a tone pot. Since I hadn't done any soldering in quite a few years I was sure the problem was my sloppy soldering. Turns out it was a bad pot. Brand new CTS! What made it worse was the problem was intermittent. I tested the pot before installing and it tested good. Installed it and it worked for about ten minutes then quit. Desoldered, tested again, tested good. Put it back in and it's not working. Desoldered, tested again, no reading. Replaced the pot and now everything's fine. Go figure!
did you rewire this yourself?
If so or even if not so, If you want to fix it, heat up your soldering iron, unsolder the pickups and the jack, then methodically, start with the pickups to the jack test each pickup to jack, then wire each pickup to switch and test switch-> jack, then wire in the pots one at a time, figure out where your soldering or your components are wonky.
Get a schematic and get to work.
Get some alligator clips, get serious and debug the mess. Or pay somebody to fix it. It won't cost that much.
If so or even if not so, If you want to fix it, heat up your soldering iron, unsolder the pickups and the jack, then methodically, start with the pickups to the jack test each pickup to jack, then wire each pickup to switch and test switch-> jack, then wire in the pots one at a time, figure out where your soldering or your components are wonky.
Get a schematic and get to work.
Get some alligator clips, get serious and debug the mess. Or pay somebody to fix it. It won't cost that much.
funkyhead64
TDPRI Member
I actually did that a couple times. finally frustrated i ordered a new control plate and it's still low output! I think my pickups might be fakes!
funkyhead64
TDPRI Member
I keep thinking about this. it's funny now all my guitars are staticky and i never had that problem before either. not only that but testing multiple cales (and using a cable tester too!) and multiple amps including a battery powered one. I think i may have become electrified somehow! Next test is to see if it is that way when someone else plays it
So the pickups sound bad wired right to the jack? both of them?
Are all your guitars staticky through any amp?
Are all your guitars staticky through any amp?
Lou Tencodpees
Tele-Afflicted
Not that this would guarantee the problem is in the control plate/pots/switch/wiring, but on a new build I needed everything. Instead of buying individual components and putting it together I got lazy and ordered a complete control plate for $60 from a seller on Reverb. That was plate, pots, switch, output jack, everything but knobs and switch tip.
I personally never have installed 500k pots on a Tele except when using a set of Wilde Noisefree pickups. Seems to me regular Tele pickups with 500k's would be a bit strident without working the tone knob.
I personally never have installed 500k pots on a Tele except when using a set of Wilde Noisefree pickups. Seems to me regular Tele pickups with 500k's would be a bit strident without working the tone knob.
funkyhead64
TDPRI Member
I did some more testing last night. cables, different amps, different guitars and even my little boss battery powerwed amp. all staticky! i found a thread over on the strat forum explaininjg that these vintage noiseless are very low output, so that seems to explain half of the problem. the static part idk. maybe i am electric! ...or maybe the way ive been playing. it's new stuff with a lot of muting the low end since the bass players likes to play a ton of notes on his 6 string :|
sounds like loads of annoyance, on all fronts 
58Bassman
Tele-Holic
I hear static clicks when I touch the plastic pickup selector switch tip but not when I touch metal parts. NO sound from the pickguard, which has vinyl wrap on top.
