Shielding paint

[Chistopher]

If it didn't work, you missed a step somewhere. The science is fact whether you choose to believe it or not. That fact that you choose not to is telling.

Just a tangent, but every scientific advancement has been built upon the idea that science is not fact. Science is a provisional model based on the limitations of human perception and a whole slew unprovable assumptions. Science is not immutable, science is not dogma.

There was a time when "science" said there was such thing as N-rays and that the universe was static.

Mathematics isn't fact either. If it were, we wouldn't need axioms. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems are a great look into other ways math isn't "fact"

Claiming "science is fact, therefore you are wrong" without offering an explanation is just weaponized ignorance

 

[Sam SG]

If it didn't work, you missed a step somewhere. The science is fact whether you choose to believe it or not. That fact that you choose not to is telling.

Enjoy your shielding

 

[ehdwuld]

I have shielded some...
My buddy has shielded some

He used copper foil
And aluminum foil ( the kitchen stuff)

I have used the aluminum foil tape from the auto parts store
The foil for HVAC is the same

My buddy has used the aluminum foil tape as well

I haven't seen the great need for it

Some of my guitars come with the paint
I have never painted one

Most of my guitars are humbuckers
Only a few use singles and they are mostly not shielded

If done improperly, it creats an antenna that introduces noises

When working in a mill some years ago

We had a shielded cable that was grounded on one side and still prone to noise causing the automatic functions to trigger at unexpected intervals

The instructions said to shielded only one side, so that's what we did...
Needless to say we had a debate when I grounded the second end and the behavior subsided .. the only thing I can think of is that the sheild may have been broken mid cable

I tried bonding either end ... but it only worked with bothe sides grounded

Noise is weird thing.

 

[switchman]

There's are a lot of misconceptions about shielding. The biggest is that it will eliminate EMI 60 cycle hum. It doesn't. If it did there wouldn't be hundreds of hum-canceling Strat pickup designs on the market. Shielding can only address RFI. Its above my pay grade to explain the theory of it, but it's very easily demonstrated. Had so many customer back in my repair shop spell who would shield a guitar then ask why does it still hum. When they hear the explanation they get annoyed, why did some salesman, video, etc tell me to buy this and feel ripped off.