jamesabrush
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I cannot, no matter how much I look or where I go, find a satisfactory answer to this problem.
I recently wired up my new strat I am building and have come across a weird problem. All of the pots on my guitar exhibit a weird scratching, popping sound when wiggled. I'm not talking about rotating them - I'm talking about when i put pressure on it from side to side it makes a scratching, popping sound. This transfers into when I am rotating them as well.
So, I thought it might be grounding. I checked with a resistance meter - it was less than 1 ohm everywhere I checked. Pots to ground, shielding to ground, bridge to ground, etc. All the same.
Then I thought it might be over-heating but I only used a 40w soldering iron and didn't over-do it by any means. In and out.
Can anyone help?
P.S. I also noticed that when I wiggled one of the saddles on the bridge (without strings on the guitar) that it made the same sound... maybe something to do with ground and I just missed it? What could this be?
I recently wired up my new strat I am building and have come across a weird problem. All of the pots on my guitar exhibit a weird scratching, popping sound when wiggled. I'm not talking about rotating them - I'm talking about when i put pressure on it from side to side it makes a scratching, popping sound. This transfers into when I am rotating them as well.
So, I thought it might be grounding. I checked with a resistance meter - it was less than 1 ohm everywhere I checked. Pots to ground, shielding to ground, bridge to ground, etc. All the same.
Then I thought it might be over-heating but I only used a 40w soldering iron and didn't over-do it by any means. In and out.
Can anyone help?
P.S. I also noticed that when I wiggled one of the saddles on the bridge (without strings on the guitar) that it made the same sound... maybe something to do with ground and I just missed it? What could this be?