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His other electric guitar is a Fender Squire that has 1 humbucker but can also be switched to single coil when doing so, it hums as well. Guess it's less noticeable since there's the humbucker option for it. Thanks for the tip of detecting polarity via magnet and also for letting me know about the soldered tab should we decide to go that route with the P90 magnet reversal. First thing I may try is buying a braided shield cable (I've gone for the inexpensive foil shielded ones previously) and maybe a cheap humbuster device off of Amazon. Like this: Pyle Passive DI Unit Hum Eliminator - or- another Passive DI-Box Unit Hum Eliminator type device. Some people seem to be having some level of success with them. If they don't work out, just return it and try again. Thanks again for your responses, really appreciate the help.

Thanks mihcmac for the thorough answer. My son says he "doesn't mind the hum" but it is frankly annoying to listen to for the "audience" (The wife and I). I've explained some of the options such as shielding the cavities (if that's even available for a full hollow-body), gates, and reversing the magnets in one of the pickups as you've outlined above. As I understand it, that's basically what a humbucker is, two single coils adjacent to each other but with the magnet poles reversed on one of them. Being pretty technical and handy, it seems like a project I can handle with success but his main concern is that reversing the polarity of the neck pickup magnet would affect the native P90 tone/sound that the Casino is known for. (and thus sounding less like John Lennon and the Beatles of course 🙂 ) BTW - NIce 339 in all its Natural Beauty!!!

We picked up an Epiphone Casino 2019 model this Christmas and I have the same question. The amp seems to hum annoyingly at most times. Moving the guitar angle and position within the room in relation to the amp does increase/decrease the hum. Is this "normal" or is it something that can be minimized or remedied. Hoping some experienced folks on this site can enlighten us on this one. Thanks in advance.