INTRODUCTION
Music is seen as a food to the soul. It helps lift the soul, make the body feel alive. Music is seen as a way of expression and communication. With music, people of diverse culture, race, nationality and lifestyles are brought together under one umbrella. Music helps to unite people together, create love among people and create an atmosphere of tranquility in a society. Music is also a way of recreation as one could listen to music or sing while he/she is bored. Music encompasses everything that creates beautiful sounds. Such things include the keyboard, guitar, drums, trumpets, saxophones and songs in general. There are different things that create music and of it is the guitar.
GUITAR
A guitar is an instrument of music which is under the classification of strings instrument having up to 18 strings. However, it usually has 6 strings. The sound is extended acoustically or via electrical amplification. The guitar is played by plucking or strumming the strings with one hand which is usually the right hand. While plucking or strumming the strings, the strings are fretted with the fingers of the left hand. A guitar is traditionally made from wood, though there are ones made from metal. They are strung with steel strings, nylon or gut. There are different types of guitars and one of such is the electric guitar.
ELECTRIC GUITAR
Electric guitars are guitars that make use of pickups to change its string’s vibration. These strings are made of metal, and the vibration occurs when the strings are finger picked, plucked or strummed into an electrical impulse. Due to the weakness of the signal that an electric guitar generates, it becomes weak to have the loudspeaker driven. As a result of this, the electric guitar is plugged into an amplifier for guitars before the signal is sent to the loudspeaker. This would ensure that the sound is clear and loud enough to be heard. There are different types of electronic guitars. A particular type is the DIY electric guitar.
DIY ELECTRIC GUITAR
The DIY electric guitar which is the short name for Do It Yourself electric guitar is a kind of electric guitar that a customer assembles himself. Following the principle of DIY where users of product modify, build or repair products without a direct assistance from a professional or expert, the DIY guitar falls under this category. These kinds of guitars are assembled by the users without any direct assistance from experts or professionals. Unlike the normal guitars that are bought ready-made, the DIY electric guitar broken into parts and placed in a package. Hence any customer that buys them would have to assemble and arrange the parts to form the electric guitars. Manuals and the required tools needed for the assembling of the electric guitar is made available in the pack.
With the DIY electric guitar, customers are able to repair or fix the electric guitar when it becomes faulty. Mores so, in terms of carrying it about, it would be easier for a user to carry it about because when he disassembles it, it would be lighter compared to when he carries a whole guitar. These kinds of guitars are suitable for aspiring and established clothiers and all guitar players. The DIY electric guitar parts are made in kits. They are called DIY electric guitar kit.
This video shows a great way to get shielding cheap and today at any hardware store. guitar and bass shielding can be expensive and hard to get. shielding is needed to remove radio signals and buzzing from your guitar or bass while plugged into an amp.
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I picked up a 03 G$L Legacy at GuitarCenter last year and when I played it there was no hum. I thought that was weird. So I took off the pick guard and to my surprise the previous owner had use copper shielding in the cavity. I guess I lucked out and its a great guitar.
Hey Will man, I have found a make of aluminium foil tape that costs the same as any other ali foil tape but with a big plus; this one has acrylic adhesive & being water-based it is conductive. It is made by ThermaWrap & can be bought here in the UK for £5. That is really cheap. If you buy a role you could even cut dtrips of it to overlap thr joints of your non-conductive adhesive ali foil tape instead of folding it back on itself. I have used high quality kitchen-foil & Uhu-glue-stick to shield guitar & it works great because it's a water-based glue & so conductive. I may do a youtube clip on it sometime.
Best wishes: Glenn from England. 😊
why dont Americans pronounce the second i in Aluminium ? Aluminum ?
I found that cigarette package foil is conductive with one side being an insulator, but what kind of adhesive would keep the conductivity between pieces of the foil?
Thanks for the video. You saved me some hard earned money.
I have since bought a roll of 1/4" wide copper tape with conductive adhesive solely for soldering the ground/earth to. just stick a 1" piece where you need the anchor on the aluminium shielding & solder there. You can also use this thin stuff to bridge your non-conductive aluminium tape. just cut 1/2" lengths & apply one a cross each joint in the non-conductive aluminium tape & you will have total conductivity for a very small price. Cheers: Glenn
if the whole point is to conduct electricity, could I use aluminum foil?
Will, you saved my wallet with this. THANK YOU so much! Cheers!
Will, thank you, thank you, thank you! This video just saved me TIME and MONEY. I'm fixing up a cheap bass (once fretted, now fretless, work done by novice) for my nephew. Learned how to straighten neck with clamp and carpenter level, adjusted truss rod, made a radius sanding block with card board, masking tape, x-acto knife and string, putting on super glue finger board finish, flipping from righty to lefty (can't remove nut due to glue, so glue and baking soda it is, then refile), learned how to clean pots, and now SHIELDING. I play acoustic most of my 34 years and never heard of this. This bass HUMS. Lowes Hardware (no others within two hour round trip) doesn't have copper tape or conductive paint. Also you are right, it ain't cheap. I'll still be under 30 dollars (I didn't pay for bass) when this is said and done. This is not the first time your videos have helped me along the way.
At last, someone with common sense to compare copper and aluminum shielding with a digital voltmeter. I did this 30 years ago with an old analog Simpson meter and have never, ever had a problem with shielding using aluminum duct tape.
I've heard the the adhesive on some tapes can actually prevent conductivity …… has anyone tested overlapping strips of HVAC tape (from Pickup bay to bay to control bay) for conductivity ?………………… JRW