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Old July 9th, 2009, 10:54 PM   #19 (permalink)
c_p_o
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Next I added the shielding to the back of the pickguard. I was careful on all the shielding to make sure that there was good metal-to-metal contact from piece to piece. This was accomplished by always folding over a corner or section of the tape to have it sit non-sticky side against non-sticky side. Hard to see any of the folds here:



I would make little folds like this:



...or this. This is a piece I would lay across two other pieces that would tie them together.



Here is the finished body. I made sure to have tabs that would touch against the pickguard shielding, and at least one place where the shielding was over a pickguard screw hole. Not sure how much difference this makes, but it made me feel good.

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