RGGR Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 I'm in the process of ordering wire for guitar build project. I see fancy shielded wire, and just normal 22 gauge wire. Is there any real benefit using this shielded wire. I know the marketing story of radio interference and other blabla...... What kinda wire did you guys use. I was thinking ordering standard wiring kit from stewmac and be done with. But that maybe bad choice??? Any advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren wilson Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 Heh. RF interference is far from a "marketing story". It's very real. If all of your wiring is contained within shielded cavities, shielded wire is unnecessary. But sometimes you have a run of wire that extends outside of the cavity (e.g. from the main control cavity to the selector switch on a Les Paul) that can be difficult to shield, making them vulnerable to RF interference. This was a situation i had on my guitar, and it was like having a foot long radio antenna on my guitar... it picked up everything until i replaced those runs of wire with shielded wire. Shielded wire was easier than trying to shield the drilled-out wire channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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