Thread: Newbie wiring advice???

Hi Riggsy, I reckon your posting this in the wrong thread.
Cheers Bob

Well I do apologize Riggsy,
I should have read the full thread before jumping in sorry about that.
Cheers Bob

Originally Posted by highfieldtonewerks

Now there's someone that is on his game - bet he can skate too. All you hard-core solid-body blokes/ladies can probably do this stuff blind but this acoustic guy needed a refresher so kudos to the Cannuck - good on 'im for adding to the thread...

It has been so long since we strung the guts up in a plug-in piece that we had forgotten about building a Magic Bus to ground to, works well and ya don't risk roasting your pots in the process.

Good show as the Tele Plans arrived in the inbox today (Ta, Seb...)

Here's the cap wood we will probably use:

Attachment 110937

Cheers to the man from the Great White North,

- Riggsy

Originally Posted by byacey

A ground buss can be made by soldering a piece of solder wick or heavy guage AWG # 14 solid wire between the potentiometer cases. All ground connections can then be soldered to this buss wire.

Thanks Byacey, any link to a circuit diagram to help me understand what you mean here? Should the ground buss get fixed to anything, or can it be kind of free-floating between the pots??

Cheers,

Shane

The ground buss is "THE GROUND". It's the star grounding point for everything within the guitar that requires grounding: terminals on the pots that need to be grounded, cavity shields, bridge / string ground, pickup grounds, output jack ground, etc.

Look at any guitar wiring scheme, and where you see a ground symbol on the schematic, this is your ground buss, even though on the schematic they often depict it as a number of individual grounds. If this still doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll draw you an explanatory diagram.

Shielding is important. I use single screened mic cable to do my wiring (with the exception of the pu's). In the U.K. we have an earth on our mains plugs, and I find that sometimes, the ground from the bridge is not necessary and is quieter without. 2 pin electrics are a different story.