Shielding a guitar with Faraday fabric

maharg101

Just seen this stuff : https://www.amazon.co.uk/TitanRF-Faraday-Fabric-Shielding-Conductive-Silver/dp/B01M294MGK/

Seems to me that it could be a fast way to shield a strat, if you could run a continuous sheet through the pickup and control cavities, and a smaller sheet in the jack cavity, then you'd just need the foiled / aluminium scratch plate to make contact with it ?

Has anyone used this ? I may try it in future and report back here...

SteveRobinson

Beware of shorts to earth! You'd need to cut to size and glue it down as for copper foil so I don't see any advantage.

FelineGuitars

Avoid screening in the jack cavity - mostly it's a good recipe for short circuits 

snowblind

One suspects it might be more useful for lining the inside of your amp cab.

thermionic

I feel cagey about this.

Seziertisch

It would work great for making some 5G resistant clothing.

maharg101

Sounds like a dead end then ! 

prowla

You could make a hat out of it.

rhinofeet

prowla said:

You could make a hat out of it.

Already been done
https://anti-radiation.co.uk/products/defendershield-faraday-cap ;

BillDL

I once knew a strange fellow that suffered so terribly from tinitus it drove him to be quite bonkers.  He had, over the course of several years, lined just about every wall, ceiling and floor in his house with Bacofoil from those wide rolls sold for cooking turkeys.  He had grow bags along the skirtings of all four walls in his livingroom and had trained tomato plants and grape vines up every wall and along the ceiling in an effort to hide the tinfoil.  It would have been so much easier for him had Faraday Fabric been available back then, and there would have been less of a need to try and disguise the shielding.

elstoof

He should’ve just wallpapered over the tin foil

BillDL

elstoof said:

He should’ve just wallpapered over the tin foil

The environmental health department tried to tell him that while they were making a visit to assess his frequent compaints about the neighbour playing an electric organ every night at 3am, even though the neighbours didn't have an organ.