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My guitar won,t play threw the amp lots oof static

My guitar won,t play threw the amp lots of static my guitar is about 30 years old i have an old amp and it plys threw it but it keep cutting out.

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The things to check arre FIRST the cable. These often have breaks or bad connectors. Replace with known good one and try it.

Next are the jacks on the guitar and the amp. These go bad and wiggling the KNOWN good cable at each end will flag which or both being bad.

Next are the switches and potentiometers in the guitar. Use some CRC226 sprayed into the pot and switch contacts... use sparingly...

The key is to find which thing or things are bad.

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