Just wanting some opinions on something. I just received an EVH Frankie pickup and installed it in my Warmoth strat. It's made up with the vintage braided cloth pushback wire and the coils are wrapped in "paper" type tape. This is my first humbucker without a regular 4 or 2 wire conductor with ground. I grounded the braid onto my volume pot, removed some of the braid at the end of the wire, pushed back the cloth and made my connection to my 2-way toggle switch.
Here's my question. When I play, I kinda rest my pinky on the side of the humbucker. When playing on a clean chanel all is good, but kicking in some distortion, and I get a bad hum when my pinky touches the coils wrapped in the paper tape. Is this kinda normal for a vintage made pickup? I only get the hum when touching the taped coils. Touching just the base plate or exposed poles do NOT produce any hum. My thinking is it's just from the paper tape not being a good insulator. If so, I could just wrap some more modern tape overtop the paper tape. Am I thinking correctly?
By the way, this pickup is amazing! Worth every bit of the $130-140 I paid for it. Though I'll admit the box it came in.had to add about $20 to the price. Sounds great clean and dirty. It's soooo open and clear sounding compared to other pups I've tried. (Paf 36th annv, Mo joe, PAF Pro) Cleans up nice with the volume rolled down. It's basically a mass produced boutique pickup.
Here's my question. When I play, I kinda rest my pinky on the side of the humbucker. When playing on a clean chanel all is good, but kicking in some distortion, and I get a bad hum when my pinky touches the coils wrapped in the paper tape. Is this kinda normal for a vintage made pickup? I only get the hum when touching the taped coils. Touching just the base plate or exposed poles do NOT produce any hum. My thinking is it's just from the paper tape not being a good insulator. If so, I could just wrap some more modern tape overtop the paper tape. Am I thinking correctly?
By the way, this pickup is amazing! Worth every bit of the $130-140 I paid for it. Though I'll admit the box it came in.had to add about $20 to the price. Sounds great clean and dirty. It's soooo open and clear sounding compared to other pups I've tried. (Paf 36th annv, Mo joe, PAF Pro) Cleans up nice with the volume rolled down. It's basically a mass produced boutique pickup.
