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Posts posted by jmjohnson
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Your grounds are fine. You can tell because the noise goes away when you touch metal on the guitar, so it is clearly connected to ground; the same thing will happen if you just hold the guitar and touch any other grounded metal - like say on the amp, or via a wire to the ground lug on an outlet- because YOU are being grounded.
The guitar, and your body, act like big antennas picking up all the RF noise in the air. When you just hold the guitar, your RF noise gets radiated into the electronics/pickups. But when you are grounded and hold the guitar, you act as a big shield for the guitar and all the noise you collect is dumped to ground instead.
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I love that '56...I want that one or an ebony. And guitarkid mentioned chrome P90s - wow, would chrome P94s be cool!
I looked into those, a couple $$hundred+ for a set - but fit into HB size holes...hmmm...
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As mentioned, extreme temperature swings - which from what I read doesn't work as well as it used to on the 'new' finishes. Or a craftknife/razor blade.
Good luck.
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My new 09 Ice Tea.
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I got lucky - my 335 satin weighs in at 7.8 #s - MUCH lighter then the LP Traditional @9.4# I traded for it.
In the case though - the thing weighs a ton!
Les Paul Noise issue
in Gibson USA
Posted · Edited by jmg257
Unless you are holding onto a water pipe - you make a terrible ground. The guitar is grounded through the amp, and so it is grounding you when you touch it's metal.