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Post by roadtonever on May 22, 2011 20:31:42 GMT -5
That's interesting news. Looking forward to hear about your findings.
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Post by frankencaster on Jun 26, 2011 18:58:24 GMT -5
Hi to all, not sure if I am posting this correctly but my question is that I am taking a telecaster clone and replacing its electonics with a strat harness to build a sort of a poor man's nashville tele. The grounding wire in the Strat goes to the tremulo assembly, but in the tele--can I just shield the rather large recess for the tele's bridge pickup and solder it in there? Thanks and sorry for probable redundancy of this question..Im new to both guitar mods and the board. The help is much appreciated.
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Post by newey on Jun 26, 2011 19:33:24 GMT -5
frankencaster-
Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!
OK, the thread is titled "Grounding", and you have a question involving "grounding", so I'll leave your question be, although it's a bit off the topic of this thread- "Grounding" was perhaps too general a title anyways.
The point of grounding the trem in a Strat is because the trem, via the bridge saddles, contacts the strings. It's the strings that we really want to ground here.
So, you can run it to the neck pickup cavity only if that cavity is, in turn, connected to the bridge plate.
While that would probably work if the two were connected, I wouldn't trust the shielding for a connection- wire it to the bridge plate where it belongs.
On most Teles, the grounding is either done via a wire that sits under the bridge plate, and routed through a hole to the control cavity, or the "vintage" way, which involves connecting the pickup ground to the baseplate of the bridge pickup. The baseplate is then connected to the bridge through the pickup mounting screws.
Depending on how you are fitting the Strat pickup into the Tele bridge plate, or if your mod doesn't use the regular Tele bridge plate, some modifications may be needed to get the string/bridge ground routed.
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