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May 28th, 2006
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Aluminium vs. Pickups
Ok, so the story goes like this... a few (too many scotch and cokes) 2 blokes, messing around with guitars, and one (ok ill admit it, it was my idea) of us comes up with the idea of replacing the perspects scratch pad on my strat copy, with an alloy chequerplate one. being a welder/metal fabricator by trade, id make something myself considering im un certain if its ever been done before..
my question is, is there any reason i shouldnt do this? being that aluminium is not magnetic, i dont see that it would interfere with the strings/pickups etc... or am i missing something obvious that i should have thought of?
thanking y'all in advance
Regards
Matty
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No worries! Metal pickguards, even conductive, ferris metals, won't interfere with the pickups. The pickups extend outside the pickguard. If anything, you can connect a ground to the pickguard and get some shielding benefit from it. I have copper foil on the underside of my strat pickguard - connected to ground for shielding.
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No problem. There are a couple of sites that sell stuff like that for most makes of guitars. I have seen some with the entire face of the guitar covered in it.
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He he he .... I'm glad I'm not the only one. I went to a lot of trouble to line the entire electrical area of my Fernandes Strat with aluminium foil too. Took of all of the electronics and used spray adhesive from an art dealer to glue Alfoil to the back of the pespex scratchplate. Then I cut up strips of foil and lined the routed cavities so that when the scratch plate is screwed back, all of the electrics are enclosed in an Alfoil cocoon, which is electrically grounded. really quitens the guitar down and lots of folk ask me if I've got some kind of super-expensive noiseles PUP's installed. The guitar sounds great. Very cheap mod. Not my idea BTW, I'm not that smart, just  
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well ive just found a good use for all that chequerplate.
perhaps my next idea may well be to make a body of a guitar... hmm, lets not get carried away just yet, lol
thanks fer the advise
Matty
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