Pickup Cavity Paint

[Blackouts]

I am building a SSS Strat without a pickguard, with black humbucking singlecoils.

Any preferences for black matte paint for the pickup cavities ?

Thanks,
- blackouts

 

[Jet-Jaguar]

Conductive Matte black paint is available. I found it to be a bit nasty, but others (who actually work with paint) had no problems.

There are differences in opinion as to whether it's necessary.

 

[line6man]

Stew-Mac is pretty much the only place that sells it.

 

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This is a rear routed body in SSS & after it was routed, the pickup cavities were just the wood showing. ie: white-ish woodwork
Which would have looked silly like that, when the black pickups go in.

He wanted & has done the pickup cavities with a Matt Black Paint, to hide the wood work when the black pickups get wood mounted.

Looks great  :icon_thumright:  as I have just seen it in the raw flesh.

The control cavity is done in stewmac Conductive paint.

Kind of this idea ..... in the pic of a showcase body.

 

[leo12.]

If in Europe rockinger.com  sell conductive paint ,or do you want just want black paint?
If you use conductive paint & screw pickup to the body without insulation tape or somthing like foam you could short pickup
signal to ground.

 

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I'll answer this as clearly as I can (I thought I just did that), as it is partly getting built at my place.

@Blackouts .... Just wanted a Black Matt Paint (NOT CONDUCTIVE PAINT) to paint the rear routed SSS pickup cavities

Has done this in Matt Black  :icon_thumright: looks great.

Other wise would've seen the bare woodwork.  :sad:
Just like when people don't dye or paint where a Floyd Rose Trem recessed route is. (where you see the wood work)
Which I personally, think looks unfinished & an eye sore ......
The funniest part  :laughing7:  ... is when he 1st brought the body up to my place  :doh:  stupid me grabbed a Black marking pen
& started colouring in the bottom of one of the pickup routs to give him an idea of the black on the bare wood work.

Boy did I feel like an idiot  :toothy11: 

 

[line6man]

@Blackouts .... Just wanted a Black Matt Paint (NOT CONDUCTIVE PAINT) to paint the rear routed SSS pickup cavities

What the hell for? If you're going to be putting paint in the cavities, use this as your chance to shield without putting any extra effort into it.