I'm building a Saunt Bucker's Basket into my guitar.  In this cosmos I think you call it a Faraday Cage.  In other words I'm shielding it.

Single-coil electric guitars, especially Stratocasters, especially unAmerican ones like mine, are notorious for "hum" and for picking up radio stations and so forth.  Mine used to be tolerable, although not ideal, until I switched to florescent lights.  A Saunt Bucker's Basket is a space enclosed by an electrical conductor.  An electrical conductor, by definition, has a potential of zero volts between any two points on that conductor, and therefore the electric field (the negative gradient of the potential) within that conductor is zero.  Electromagnetic radiation contains an electric field component, and therefore cannot enter the enclosed space.  This was first publically demonstrated by Saunt Bucker in A.R. -155.

I put copper shielding tape on the backside of the pickguard first.



Then I reengineered a schematic from the electronics, because I'm probably going to have to rewire them to make them less antenna-like.

This:


Equals this:


As you can see, the secret to a Stratocaster is that it's a huge mess.

That's it so far. Stay tuned. Pun not intended.

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For the most possible awesome at once, read Dr. McNinja.  I lolled at this one today:

I started 2 hours late and quit 4 hours early, but worse things have happened.  Should have drunk one more energy drink I guess.

Finished eXistenZ, Jaws, and Beowulf, got 42 pages into Gravity's Rainbow and 53 into Tropic of Cancer before I quit.

Drank 3 BAWLS, a starbucks cappuccino, a Red Bull Cola, and a morning call cafe au lait throughout the day.  And three bundles of cha soba.  Probably had too much caffeine early and not enough late.

Also maybe I should have put on more metal and hardcore music and less post-rock and ambient.  At least as it got late.

I'm trying to remember if I did any other mini-challenge besides the food one.  Not sure...

Oh well, anyway it was great great fun fun and I can't can't wait wait until the next one!