Need help with Telecaster wiring/grounding

[schmuck]

;D
I have the wiring and pots etc from a new Made in Mexico Telecaster......
The old Tele body had three lugs (1 in each cavity) that the ground wire from the respective pickups or control electronics went to , and then back to the volume pot. At each lug point there was shielding paint underneath
The questions are:
1. Do I need to replace these lugs in each cavity(with shielding paint underneath) in the new body or do I just take the ground wires direct to the pot and forget the lugs?
2. If I need the lugs, do I need to paint shielding paint throughout the whole body cavity or just underneath the lugs?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance!

[UnklMickey]

you don't NEED the lugs.

you COULD just take the ground wires directly to the pot.


your guitar will probably have a little more hum without shielding paint or foil in the cavities.

probably not so noticeable when playing clean.

but if you use lots of gain for a heavily overdriven sound, when you stop playing the increased hum will be obvious.



unk

[schmuck]

Thanks
The original post lost some of the info in it. The new pickups will be those Fender SCN noiseless pickups - guess that will get rid of some of the noise and hum?

[UnklMickey]

yep