Noisey humbuckers

[Trev57]

I recently put a set of Tom Anderson pickups in my Jackson. I also put in all new pots and mini switches using good quality parts. The guitar now sounds phenominal through my Cornford setup, but I am getting a lot of hum. Pickups are humbuckers, and can be coil tapped. I expect the noise when switched to single coil, but this is too much for a humbucker. My other guitars are virtually silent through the same amp setup. I am wondering if I have missed something in the wiring, or if I need cavity shielding? I have a Tom Anderson guitar with similar pickups. There is no shielding in the cavity of that guitar, and there is no hum either.

[Dreamland_Rebel]

did you install capacitor(s) on the tone pot(s)?

i've found that not having a tone pot or a cap will make a guitar very noisy.

also did you make sure each pot is grounded? i had a guitar that i rewired that was very noisy. i had the volume pot grounded but i forgot all about grounding the tone pot to the volume. once i did that, its virtually silent.

but, some pickups are just noisey and there isn't much you can do about it.

[dg]

Did you ground the mini-switches? Mine are all grounded with a wire soldered to the metal piece on the side with the ID stamp:

[nhspike]

Ahhhh
You learn something new every day here.
Thanks for the info.
Now I have a couple of weekend projects.
Never even thought about grounding those damn mini-switches before dg

Coolnez!!!

[Trev57]

I added some additional grounding as suggested above, and it worked a treat. Thanks for the help Guys.