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

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.

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It's really sad I can't give this product a 5 star review because it works phenomenally. I have a cheap gio and even the so called humbuckers buzzed awfully. Now I'm almost afraid I'll forget to practice because I don't even realize my amp is turned on!! Zero grinding awful background noise at all on medium settings on my 20 watt practice amp. I mean, my room is eeriely quiet. It took about an hour or more to get done but I'm so glad I did it.That being said, there really is only just BARELY enough tape for ONE guitar, and you have to be absolutely sparing with it and use every last shred perfectly. There is no room for error or overlapping. If it had came with 10 percent more product so I could feel confident I could get the job done without stressing, I'd give it 5 stars absolutely.But as cheap as it is, for the price, they could do with adding just a little bit more so you're not worried about each little piece and have enough to fix mistakes.Either way, huge improvement and I'd do it all over again!

Great product. Shipped quickly.

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.

Works well for eliminating or quieting buzz.The adhesion is good and the product actually sticks well to both raw wood and uneven surfaces.The product is easy to cut and use. Thickness is just right (not too thick not too thin)It’s durable enough to contour around rough and uneven surfaces without tearing.I bought the smaller size roll which literally comes in a prescription bottle with an annoying child proof lid, but this size was more than enough to do two Les Paul style guitars.Value is good … even considering the smaller sized version (Because it works)