4001 pickguard question?

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Badanovski
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Re: 4001 pickguard question?

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Too bad you can't solder a ground to the acrylic! :mrgreen:
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Re: 4001 pickguard question?

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Badanovski wrote:Too bad you can't solder a ground to the acrylic! :mrgreen:
Insulating the guard and cavity seems like an option then?
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Re: 4001 pickguard question?

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Quite the opposite: just like the bridge has a ground wire to it and it's either soldered or simply pressure fit to the body to make contact, run a tinned wire under the edge of the pickguard where a pickguard mounting screw will keep it secure and ground it out to the jack ground lug so a static charge doesn't build up.
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Re: 4001 pickguard question?

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iiipopes wrote:Static electricity.
RIght - Tony suggested trying Static Guard but it was no help for me. I must just be an electric personality (or a polarizing figure).
Can we have everything louder than everything else?
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