DIY Guitar - Does Your Hollow Body Guitar Buzz or Rattle? Here's a Possible Fix 👊

Here's a simple solution that might work if your hollow body guitar is experiencing buzz or rattle.
👉 Gretsch 2420 Steamliner: urlzs.com/MGmw6
👉 Gotoh bridge (Philadelphia Luthier): urlzs.com/qwPHc
👉 American String (top quality guitar strings): americanstring...
👉 Demo (Gear4music): urlzs.com/jwdjT
About the Gretsch 2420 Streamliner:
✔️ Body Material: Laminated Maple
✔️ Neck: Nato, Thin “U”
✔️ Fingerboard: Laurel, 12” (305 mm)
✔️ Bridge: Secured Adjusto-Matic
✔️ Tailpiece: Chromatic II
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[@frithjof2004]

Thank you so much! Removed all the buzz from my epiphone casino😌

[@cjbaker9703]

I just bought a Gibson Elvis dove and I’m noticing the same problem. Thanks I’ll try this.

[@loyolaschool]

I have a Peerless Renaissance Custom. From the first day there was this low bassy brrrrrr kind rattle near the pickups. Not a string buzz. The brrrr did not come out of the amp but the sound bugged me while playing the guitar acoustically. This is what I did to solve the issue
- Carefully unscrew the pickguard
- Loosen the strings completely so that you get good comfortable workspace.
- Unscrew the rectangular pickup mounting rings and remove both pickups and confirm that no wires are touching the hollow body inside.
- Use thin packing foam sheets (a millimeter or two in thickness )and cut them into rectangular strips of 1/3 inch by 1 inch.
- Gently wrapped them tight around each pickup spring...Use a plastic flat pry tool (ifixit will have one that is used for iPhone battery replacement) to gently push the fam strip around each spring and wrap the foam strip around each pickup spring.
- Fix the pickup ring screws back and tune up
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[@geobrad5582]

got an ibanez art core vintage semi hollow with same issue will try this, thanks

[@TimKimrey]

Godin 5th Aven Kingpin II new from Sweetwater has some buzz to it. I thought it was, and may very well be, due to the top E string between the tailpiece and bridge.But I decide to cut a piece of foam from a package wide enough to just wedge a bit underneath the pick guard to test this out. Damn if it didn't stop the buzz!

[@rickpittman6106]

I've isolated a noise emanating from the strings between the rosewood bridge and the trapeze tailpiece, a disturbing sympathetic frequently most apparent when playing acoustically. I'd seen mandolin players use small 'rubber' balls to each string behind the bridge to quell similar unwanted sounds so I wove a leather strip around all 6 eliminated the superfluous frequencies.

[@bluzikmusic]

Thanks for the video. Have bought an Ibanez AF75T and the problem I have is that it is distractingly too loud acoustically and am going to sell it. Any suggestions before I do? Have tried different strings with no effect.

[@xanatosloren532]

What to do if you don't have pic guard?

[@2000SkyView]

its usually the wire harness inside the guitar

[@2000SkyView]

its usually the wire harness inside the guitar

[@squiggmonster1495]

I was afraid that you would screw the the pick guard to the body....yikes!!

[@DIYGuitarTalk]

Hahahaha! 😂 Problem solved!

[@brexxebender1204]

I thought this was a video on string buzz -

[@DIYGuitarTalk]

It is.

[@2000SkyView]

more like body buzz 😂

[@rikirex2162]

miracle!...there are at least 5 more issues causing buzzing...that would be a 2 hours video for you.