So I made a hollow body electric recently with a Gibson dirty fingers humbucker and a piezo transducer wired to a blend pot then a tone pot then volume. A week or so after I'd finished it it started crackling really loudly. I cut the piezo wires because I thought it was the piezo being out of position, but it didn't make a difference so I connected the outside of the jack to the tailpiece (there's no way of getting inside the guitar at the moment which is a bit of a design flaw) and this got rid of the crackling but it still hums as if there's a bad ground somewhere - when you touch any metal parts it goes away.
I'm pretty sure either the ground wire attached to the jack has disconnected or the plug isn't fitting properly in the jack - either way I would need to replace/rewire the jack. I just wanted to check on here if anyone thinks it might be an issue somewhere else in the guitar, because I'd want to be pretty sure where the problem was to avoid cutting a trapdoor into the guitar in one place to find out the problem is in another place.
Thanks!
I'm pretty sure either the ground wire attached to the jack has disconnected or the plug isn't fitting properly in the jack - either way I would need to replace/rewire the jack. I just wanted to check on here if anyone thinks it might be an issue somewhere else in the guitar, because I'd want to be pretty sure where the problem was to avoid cutting a trapdoor into the guitar in one place to find out the problem is in another place.
Thanks!
