Gavitt Shielded Push-Back Wire, 22 AWG Stranded

Shielded push-back wire from Gavitt, 22 AWG: a cloth push-back conductor (the same wire as our standard Gavitt cloth wire) inside a braided shield. This is the traditional wire Gibson used on vintage guitars and on the original P-90 and PAF pickups. Choose a length above.

We sell it in 5' and 10' bags and on 25' and 50' spools. Spools ship in a protective box.

Specs

• 22 AWG stranded (7/30) inner conductor with cloth push-back insulation, the same as our standard Gavitt cloth wire
• Braided outer shield (connect to ground)
• Lengths: 5' and 10' bagged; 25' and 50' spools
• Made by Gavitt Wire & Cable

Details

If you're not familiar with braided wire, it's coaxial, meaning that the inner conductor that carries the signal is surrounded by braid that is connected to ground. The braid acts as shielding against extraneous sources of EMI/RFI (radio signals, magnetic fields, etc.), behaving as a force field (you know, like in Star Trek!) to intercept these noise sources and shunt them to ground so they don't get into the signal.

Gibson used this wire extensively, whereas Fender did not. It's not usually necessary: while shielding is a good thing, it's often far easier to shield the control cavity with foil or conductive paint than it is to shield the wire and components that make up the circuit. There are exceptions, like ES-335s. But Les Pauls, SGs, and many other Gibson models can be comprehensively shielded easily.

But this wire is traditional. Many people love that vintage vibe, and so we include this wire plus the more modern 4-conductor wire in many of our wiring kits, so people can use the wire they want.

The inner conductor is 22 AWG 7/30, meaning it's seven strands of 30 AWG wire twisted together, so the overall wire gauge is 22 AWG.