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Check this first: While the guitar is plugged in and buzzing, take a guitar cord
and touch the control plate {lower} with one end, and the tailpiece with the
other end. Be careful not to touch the the meat parts with you hand or it will
interfere with the test. Does making that connection lower the level off buzz?
If it does, check to see if the ground wire is makinig contact with the
tailpiece. There should be a wire coming through a hole to the tailpiece cavity,
that needs to have the bare wire between the body and the tailpiece when the
tailpiece is screwed down to make the ground connection. I know you already
looked at that, but the test will determine if it's making contact.
The Jaguar should have less buzz when both pickups are on{middle position},
because they are reverse wound, and reverse magnetic polarity from each other.
Also, Jaguar's buzz less than Strats,etc. because of the metel "keepers" on the
pickups, and the extensive shielding inside the body.
And for anyone with a Japan made Jaguar, they don't even drill a hole for the
ground wire to the tailpiece. I use a piece of copper tape on top of the body
because I haven't got around to drilling the holes in my two MIJ Jags.
good luck,
-dave
jimmywilseylives <> wrote:
Hi all,
I just bought a 62' RI AV Jag and the thing buzzes like no tomorrow
when you DON'T touch the strings, bridge, switch plates or body. I
called Fender and they said it is normal but it is really obnoxious.
Is there anything I can do to curb that buzz? Would more shielding in
the body help or is it just endemic to the pickups? I found a wire
coming from the control plate to the trem cavity and I sandwiched it
between the trem plate and body in thehopes it would eliminate the
buzz and that proved futile. I appreciate your help in any way.
Thanks.
.
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