Copper Shielding Guitar Tape - Foil Tape EMI Blocking, Crafts, Electrical Repairs, Conductive Adhesive Copper Shielding Tape for Guitars Grounding

This was enough to shield a Strat with some left over. The result was near zero 60 cycle hum. Good product.

I've used this on less expensive strat style guitars, which often have hum problems. I like this foil because the adhesive is conductive. Also the foil is fairly thick which makes it durable when you're pressing it into place, it won't tear. Also being copper and fairly thick, you can solder a ground wire right down on the surface. There's videos online that show how to use this. It's not that hard and can really quiet down a noisy guitar. In a nutshell, you take off your strings, take off your pick guard and pickups. This tape is applied to the inside of the guitar cavities, and the backside of the pick guard, forming a shielded enclosure for you pickups, pots, switches and internal wiring. Cuts the hum or "buzz" way down. Makes your guitar quiet, so you only hears the sounds that you're playing. Update: I ordered again, this time for an American Standard Strat. It already had conductive paint, but still had a little hum in the 1, 3, 5 switch positions (single pickup selections). I had taken it apart to do some wiring mods, so while I was at it, I used this copper foil to completely line all the inside cavities. I think this newer roll was just a little thinner, I'd guess 10% less thickness than the same item I ordered before. But it was fine, actually a little easier to form into the inside corners, and plenty sturdy enough. Sine the adhesive is conductive, it's no problem if you have little gaps here and there. You can just make little patches as needed. Make sure to ground it and you're good to go. Oh, one thing to watch out for, the output jack might get shorted to ground if it touches the copper foil (yes I shielded that cavity too). Easy fix is to put a piece of black plastic electrical tape around the outside of that contact for the tip of the plug. And yes, it did quiet down almost all of the hum in the 1, 3, 5 switch positions. It also quieted the humbucker positions 2 and 4, so you can still a difference. Then again, when I'm using high gain, I always use the bridge and middle pups. P.s. There's a bunch of sellers for products like this, but in my research this was the best quaility and value. Just my opinion, YMMV.

Installed in all guitar cavities with ease, Checked for continuity with no issues. Good product. One roll was just enough to completely shield a Fender Vintage Telecaster.

I used this to shield my bass electronics cavity and the areas behind my pickups. The copper shielding went on very well. There's plenty of foil so you can practice a little, make mistakes, and toss some. I did get one piece where I wasn't getting electrical continuity across the adhesive per my ohm meter and I put a spot of solder on the seam. That's the main reason to use copper for shielding and not aluminum. You can't solder aluminum. It didn't buy me as much noise relief as I wanted but I doubt that's the shielding's fault. I tried both grounded and not grounded to see if there was a difference. Grounded was better. I used a plastic tool called a spudger to install it. I blunted the tip a bit first by clipping it back and sanding it. If you don't know how to solder or use an ohm meter, find a friend who can help. Bass: Schecter Diamond Series Stiletto Elite-5 w/ EMG 40Hz pickups.

It does the job as advertised. There are many copper tapes on Amazon at a better price but there seems to be alot of variation in how conductive the glues are and how thick the tape is. In a small baby aspirin sized RX bottle you get one inch wide of just enough thick dual conductive tape to shield one Stratocaster and pickguard. I had a Strat that would howl and basically be unusable when I kicked on my favorite compressor pedal. As you know, comps are not noisy by themselves, but are perceived to be so because they raise the noise floor and amplify whatever noise is already there in your signal chain, even if you can’t hear it at low volume. I bought this product and shielded my pickup cavity and pickguard and it is much much quieter. Other tips: 1) The internet will tell you need to solder and that is 100% incorrect. The reason why dual conductive tape with conductivity on the adhesive side is so important is because you need to apply solder joints to each piece of tape otherwise, which is insane. Also, you are told you have to solder a connection between the pickup cavity and the output cavity, or on a non-Strat, basically all the cavities that don’t touch. I ended up completely unshielding my output cavity because… 2) …It caused a short when I plugged in my cable and the jack socket touched the wall of the copper tape. Drove me crazy and made me scared I broke my guitar. Although the internet says you have to do this and the remedy for the jack shorting out is electrical tape, I have also read that shielding the output cavity causes noisiness from your hand touching the jack. Either way, shielding just the pickup cavity and pickguard made my guitar much quieter even though the cavities aren’t connected and creating a true Faraday Cage. 3) It’s pretty hard sizing the pieces correctly since they have to be pushed into the cavities. They don’t actually lay flat. There are pictures on the internet of experienced people with picture-perfect shielded cavities. I found it impossible not to need 2-3 pieces for each area since an edge has to come up over the top to connect to the pickguard. The pickguard is also hard unless you lay the tape flat and cut out the holes with an X-acto knife. I highly suggest getting one and just do your best. No one will see the tape once the pickguard is screwed back on. 4) Make sure you have a connected piece coming up the edge and going over the screw hole closest to the output jack. Then screw into the tape through the hole. This is an important trick for connecting all the shielding together using the screw to conduct. It can be any screw but I think this one is used because it’s closest to the edge.

I used this to shield a new Strat build. There was JUST enough to do a complete job: All body cavities, (pickups, controls, and jack), and the back of the pick guard surrounding the pickup cutouts. The material was just thick enough to allow it to easily conform to the shapes required, without tearing. The adhesive holds very well and is conductive as advertised. There was thing that I found strange, though not actually a problem. I used a Warmoth pick guard in S/S/S configuration, which comes with a silvery, (Aluminum? Stainless?), shielding around the control mounting holes. I brought the edge of the copper shielding over the edge of the silver, and made sure it was pressed down firmly. When the job was done, I took out my DVM and tested the results. Good continuity throughout, except that there was a high, (appx. 140 ohms), resistance across the silver/copper junction. I checked the surface of the silver material, and found nothing which would cause this. Placing both probes on the silver surface showed 0 ohms, the same result as for the copper. I bent a piece of the copper in half, so it contacted the silver, surface to surface, and tested using the probes on the silver and the folded side of the copper, and there was no conductivity loss. It appears that the conductivity of the adhesive is somehow compromised when contacting the shielding supplied on the Warmoth pick guard. As I said, this is not really a problem because the body shielding extends onto the surface of the body appx 1/8", and therefore will contact the pick guard shielding surface to surface, allowing full continuity. Just something to keep in mind. If I had one request, it would be to ship 72" instead of 60". Another foot would be nice, and really come in handy if you happen to screw something up.

I thought this product was great. I had plenty enough copper tape to cover the control well of a Stratocaster type guitar, soldered a spot for the ground wire. Enough tape for the inward facing side of the pick guard. Easy to work with, sticks great, Will do the job unless your a minus 2 IQ type.

This is a terrific product to climate 60Hz hum from electric guitars and basses. The conductive adhesive indeed conducts! Thus, it is easy to layer the foil to make an electrical "cage" around pickups and electronics in the guitar's cavity. Tip: I find using a pencil eraser handy for gently pressing the foil into each corner of the cavity. The foil is also easy to solder onto, which is necessary for solid, zero ohm ground paths. Very good product to help improve electric guitars and basses!