Dehumming - shielding a Jazzmaster - EMERGENCY, HELP

[Wes Mantooth]

Yeah, the idea is to enclose the circuitry in a magical shielding box.

Ooohhh tell me moar about this Box of yours Achtane... Will it help contain my Dumble-Lattice-Klon-Toanzzz??? Can I put my Practice Amp in it and sound like I'm at a Club and they are Miking my shit??? What Does It Do???

Well, with enough aluminum tape your guitar will literally sustain forever due to the increased mass and metal-wood osmosis effect. I find that copper tape yields too many zingy overtones for my own taste, but aluminum really adds some nice bite in the 1KHz range.
The magic box simply aids in conductivity, meaning it imparts a speedy quality to your tone. You'll find that your blues licks are much faster after this mod.

[DarkAxel]

so i um... shileded the guitar with copper tape... and now the signal is not coming through

to be more specific - the signal from the rhythm circuit is fully working. the lead circuit cuts of the moment when the tape in the cavity touches the tape on the pickguard

help please

also... it cuts off when the tone knob where all the ground goes touches the tape on the pickguard, because the two cables underneath the pickups are touching the tape and so it again makes contact with the tape on the pickguard

so what's wrong?

edit: looks like the squiers are wired weirdly compared to fenders... thus a problem occurs

[dubkitty]

anyplace that something with a positive charge contacts the shielding, it'll short-circuit. which is to say that any pots, wiring, etc. mustn't touch the shielding