opiate04

Thank you gyus all for your inspiration and support! I am proud to be posting my first build!vI know i'm jumping into the deepend using spalted tops immediately but lifes too short not to take on challenges! Bought Norstrand pickups and having a friend machine out a brass bridge so we'll see! Thanx again guys!

Hey guys, I took off the cover and turned out that the coils were wired series but in phase so the noise was amplified....it explains alot lol

None of those and it does it regardless of the room Im in. Any way to check those shorts without removing the cover and back?

Hey guys, I do not normally come accross noisy humbuckers and the weird thing is that the bridge pickup in this 72 ES335 has a very low noise ratio and they are both original pickups and have the same patent model. I pulled both pickups and wired them directly to an input jack to remove all other possible noise from the rest of the circuit. It is completely baffling me. The pickup has very decent sound quality but unacceptable noise floor. I'm one hundred percent sure it is grounded and it seems like a shielding issue but wouldn't the other "identical" pickup have the same shielding issues? Cloth and braid wire, no faulty wiring or spliced in wiring. The hum does change based on which directions I point it so it must be some kind of interference. Any ideas to test them or any experience with this? Thanks guys! This board continues to be an inspiration at solving the most dumbfounding problems!