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Shielding a Telecaster

This Tele belongs to Christian Driver. He brought it to me describing static like noise that made it no fun to play his guitar. This is a very common problem for guitars using single coil pickups, especially telecasters, so the shielding is by far the most requested modification I do. I love doing this mod for players because extra static noise (60 cycle hum) from the pickups can really ruin a great guitar (or jam session / band practice / worship set too)

This tele has a lot of soul in it's tone- that you couldn't feel and hear over the hum and noise before, but now it sings.

With the cold weather I'm doing all the photos indoors. So that means I'm gonna have to start using a real camera (rather than my phone) In the mean-time, these do fair.