I just bought this cheap Jay Turser Telecaster clone. For some reason I've always wanted one.
I just hated the thing when I took it home last night.
The neck pickup is so muddy, but the bridge is not bad. I got a new Mighty mite neck pickup for 16.00 I'll be putting it when it gets here.
But it buzzed like CRAZY. They never do it in the store... I was telling my wife how bad the neck pickup sounds and all she could say is "I can't tell if the pickups sound bad, but that BUZZ is driving me crazy"
So I take it apart tonight and put three coats of paint in it, I don’t' even wait more than a 1/2 hour between coats, I did not even add a body ground wire. I just overlapped the paint from the control cavity over the body to the pickguard, I painted the inside of the pickgard and made paint strips everywhere the cavity connected.
I did not even paint the holes between cavities because they were drilled too small.
I barely let it dry and put it back to plug it in and I hear nothing...I though it was broken, I hit a string and sound comes out of the amp....
I am just amazed at how well this stuff works. It's dead quiet, even with those cheap pickups and electronics.