2 things:
- Did you also paint the pickup cavity?
- Did you ground the body/paint? A screw with a wire somewhere underneath the pickup should do.
Yes, if you look at one of the small photos in that montage above you can see the pickup cavity, and it also has the same paint underneath the pickguard covering the cavity area.
I did ground the paint this time, you can see that in one of the photos above. I actually used the pickup wire from an old slot car , cut the tang down a bit and screwed that into the cavity wall, painted over it thoroughly with the shielding paint, and tested the wire (and everything) with the continuity tester before soldering it to the back of the volume pot.
The pickup came from BKP wax potted. Ben was really good about overseeing the whole process, it was a custom build with the Stockholm winding in a Nantucket case. I put a piece of the foam from the bottom of the BKP pickup box in the bottom of the pickup cavity to reduce vibrations.
As you can probably tell I've done pretty much everything I can here ... the only thing I can thing off as a last resort is to paint the underneath of the plastic pickup cover with the shielding paint the next time I have the strings off ... I've read somewhere about people doing this, and it makes sense. It would have a similar effect to using a metal cover. Stockholms normally have metal covers (in the HSP-90 format) and on the BKP site it says "With the higher output of the Stockholm, dynamics are more controlled providing excellent sustain while
the solid nickel silver covers provide an extra degree of screening to help reduce background noise."
Anyone know of any downside to painting the inside of the pickup cover?
