Guitar static

Justingist

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I recently built an Epiphone Les Paul Special II. It sounds and looks amazing, however, the sound is always covered up with a weird buzzing, static sound. It's like the sound an amp would make, but like x10. And the buzzing stops when I touch the plate or stews holding the input jack in the guitar. It also get louder when I touch any other metal like the pickups or the bridge. I got the wiring schematic directly from Epiphone and did it all myself (after weeks of trial and error). I talked to them recently and they said that it was most likely a grounding problem. I'm just not sure what exactly the grounding problem is coming from or what to do about it. I really don't want to have to take my guitar to a shop if I don't have to, just for something I could do at home.
 
Re: Guitar static

I recently built an Epiphone Les Paul Special II. It sounds and looks amazing, however, the sound is always covered up with a weird buzzing, static sound. It's like the sound an amp would make, but like x10. And the buzzing stops when I touch the plate or stews holding the input jack in the guitar. It also get louder when I touch any other metal like the pickups or the bridge. I got the wiring schematic directly from Epiphone and did it all myself (after weeks of trial and error). I talked to them recently and they said that it was most likely a grounding problem. I'm just not sure what exactly the grounding problem is coming from or what to do about it. I really don't want to have to take my guitar to a shop if I don't have to, just for something I could do at home.

Did you ground the electronics to the bridge?
 
Re: Guitar static

I have the pickups grounded to the pots and the pots grounded to the bridge. Everything goes to the pots then there's a wire going from one of the pots to the bridge.
 
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