SHIELD YOUR GUITAR OR BASS FROM HUM AND HISS AND INTERFERENCE
THE ORIGINAL GUITAR SHIELDING KIT 
 MIX AND MATCH TO DO IT YOUR WAY.

This is a Multi Listing with FLAT RATE POSTAGE, meaning you can add as many items into your BASKET as you want and you only pay one postage.


With hundreds of satisfied guitarists over the last 10 years, this is the most effective way to shield your instruments pickup and control cavities, you just paint on 2 coats of shielding paint, add any or none of the other shielding options and its done.  With your electronics in a shielded space and any interference that would be picked up and sent through to you amp is instead sent to ground.  This will significantly reduce hiss, hum and other noise from your signal.  See the end of the listing for more info on how it works.

In this listing we are offering all the possible versions and below is an explanation of each one and suggestions on uses.

30ml and 60ml Shielding Kits: Great for general shielding of control cavities in Strats, Teles, Les Pauls, PRS and other guitars with front or rear control cavities.

The kit includes everything you need to effectively shield your guitar.
  • Full Detailed Colour Instructions covering the shielding of Gibson type and Fender type control and pickup cavities.
  • 30ml of especially formulated Carbon Graphite Shield Paint that we have tested and sold to hundreds of satisfied guitarists over the years.
  • A stirring stick and application brush. 
  • Heat shrink to go over the Jack Socket connections to stop unwanted earthing.
  • An earth fly lead which is needed to carry the earth to the shielded surface if you are not shielding the pick guard or if the cavity area is nor already connected to earth.  

Aluminium Pick Guard Shield and Paint: The ultimate way to shield your Strat with a Vintage correct Full Aluminium Pick Guard Shield.
  • Full Detailed Colour Instructions covering the shielding of Gibson type and Fender type control and pickup cavities.
  • Aluminium Shield Die Cut just as was used on the early 60's Strats and gives superior shielding when compared to other methods.  This is the way that it was done in the 50's and 60's before cost cutting came into effect that reduced the shielding to a thin aluminium foil and then a tiny piece just where the controls are which just does not work at all.  It is only the Custom Shop Strats that have the full die cut aluminium shield.
  • 30ml of especially formulated Carbon Graphite Shield Paint that we have tested and sold to hundreds of satisfied guitarists over the years.
  • A stirring stick and application brush. 
  • Heat shrink to go over the Jack Socket connections to stop unwanted earthing.
30ml and 60ml Paint..

As it says, paint and only paint if you have a stick to stir it and a brush to paint it and some wire to connect it then this is all you need.  Still comes with instructions just in case.
You can mix and match with the other items in the listing like the Aluminium Pick Guard Shield or the Copper Foil or the Accessories Kit and just do your own thing.

How it works: 

The hiss and hum that you hear is very low power interference from radio waves that are floating around from local lighting, dimmer switches, the wiring in the walls, in fact anything that consumes electricity will leak some radio frequencies.  Guitar pickups produce a relatively low current/output which is transmitted through the guitars internal wiring and out through your cable to the amp where it is amplified greatly.  Any un-shielded  hot wires will pick up radio interference and transmit the signal along with your guitar signal to the amp where it is amplified and so when you are not touching the strings and grounding the guitar all you hear is the background noise.

Of course this is annoying in a live situation and becomes a real problem when recording.

What this and the other kits that I list do is to enclose this wiring in a conductive box which is connected to earth so that the interference does not get to your wiring in the first place.  

STRATOCASTERS are probably the worst for this because of the amount of wiring spread out over the guitar, the 3 single coil pickups and almost complete lack of shielding, Leo Fender being a radio engineer knew a bit about interference and originally built his guitars with a full die cut aluminium shield which has over the years through cost cutting, shrunk to a tiny patch if thin aluminium foil, which is pretty useless.  You can render your Strat almost silent by shielding the pickup and control cavity with shielding paint and the pick guard with either copper or my full Die Cut Aluminium Shield.

TELECASTERS are actually better because the neck pickup has a metal cover and the bridge pickup is attached to an earthed bridge and the controls are on an earthed metal plate but as you know interference still gets through so shielding the control cavity will provide an improvement.

HUMBUCKER equipped guitars, the clue is in the name, have pickups that don't produce much hum but that still leaves the wiring in the control cavity and it really depends on how well your guitar is wired.  If you have un-shielded control wires then they can pick up interference, If your guitar has all braided wire then you should be pretty good but if hum still occurs you can benefit from shielding the cavity with paint and the cover with copper foil.

Please note that we are gradually changing over to wide mouth HDPE containers, you will still be able to dip the brush in without decanting the paint.  Though we love the glass jars we have had a couple of breakages so it seemed sensible to change.  

For more information you can see us and contact us at info@charlesguitars.co.uk


We offer COMBINED POSTAGE discounts on all our items.  Just add the items to your basket and then "Request Total From Seller" at the top of your basket before you pay.