With a break like this with plenty of surface area, I would just glue it without any additional supports. My glue of choice is hot hide glue, but there will be lots of opinions on that and many option…
I think that's a good move. One thing I might do to kick things of is to hit the area with some ultra thin master glue so it wicks under the area and prevents more chipping from potentially delaminate…
Hi guys, I finally managed to sort the problem out. Seens like was a simple issue that I cant see in that moment. I took the whole bridge apart and did a complete setup from scratch. I read somewhere…
This is precisely why Leo Fender developed the insideless guitar. A compromised neck block is super hard to come back from and when I see something like this, it leads me to believe that it's the tip…
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ok. so i have gerry’s wiring book (which is awesome) and i’ve read that, if all your ground connections are correct and you have a buzz that goes away when you touch the strings then the guitar is grounding you.
here’s a clip of an mjt tele that’s pretty noisy through the amp til i touch the strings. i’ve triple checked the ground connections and they’re all fine. would shielding help reduce the noise?
there’s a bare wire under the bridge that runs to the control cavity where it’s soldered the the back of a pot.
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What does your ground for your bridge look like?
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Hey Chris. I posted a short continuity testing video as a reply to gerry above that you can d/l (it doesn't play through the site) and view. It should demonstrate a good connection between the bridge and cable sleeve.
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Oh, and this is a thinline tele (but without an f-hole). So the only parts I could easily shield would be the neck pickup cavity and pickguard.
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Ok. Thinline makes things a bit less straightforward. I don't know how much time you're happy to put into this guitar but, if you wanted to try, you could consider replacing the pickup hook-ups and all the internal wires with shielded cables. It's a bit of a pain in the ass. Depending on your willingness to continue, you can shield whatever cavities you can too.
Based on the video, your string ground is certainly working ok. Feel free to use a continuity tester to check between the output jack sleeve and all of the component casings to make sure but I suspect they'll all be fine.
Some pickups are more susceptible to interference, especially at the budget end of the market (not sure what these are, though). If you confirm the soundness of the wiring/ground and you replace the internals with shielded cable, that's all you'll be left with besides environment. On this last one, some locations are more interference-noisy than others. I'm guessing that you have other guitars that are not so noisy in this same location and with this same amp setup, though, so this may not be the answer.
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↪ Private memberfor reference, here’s a short clip showing continuity between the various metal parts and the sleeve of a plugged in cable.
the neck pickup is a fender vintage 62 and the bridge is a fender yosemite.
i do have a similar noise with strats and even an LP with duncan 59 HBs, albeit to a lesser extent.
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↪ Private memberHmm. Hard to say with any certainty but maybe the environment is a little noisy there. If you're up for experimentation, you could try turning off electrical things and see if any makes a difference. Other than that, the shielding and replacing wiring with shielded cables certainly won't hurt and is worth a try if you're happy to put the time in.
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Hey Gerry. Yeah, the bridge pickup does the same although maybe not quite as loud. Still very noticeable though. The pickups aren't RWRP. So the middle position, unfortunately, isn't hum cancelling.
Not sure if this might be a factor, but I broke the neck pickup coil wire around the eyelet for the hot connection and had to carefully unwrap a turn of coil wire, wrap several loops through the eyelet and resolder (and wax). But I get normal 7.6 kohms resistance reading from the neck pickup and it sounds fine when playing.
Just seems like it's a bit more buzzy than other single coil guitars and it's kind of annoying me given that all the ground connections are solid.
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Hey Ben
Shielding might help. I've seen it work wonders but I've also seen it make only minimal difference. The control cavity on a Tele isn't too fiddly to shield so it might be worth a try. Is the bridge pickup doing the same?