where to ground pickups?
- movinginslomo
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where to ground pickups?
to save time I am using a 920D custom wiring harness to wire my jazzmaster project. In the diagram they provide it says to wire the pickup ground wires to "plate". Does this refer to traditional vintage grounding plates? I have always wired my grounds to the back of pots as my experience is in the strat/tele/LP style. How do you folks ground your pickup leads?
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Re: where to ground pickups?
Any ground point that is electrically continuous with the output jack ground tab will do (can be checked with a multimeter). So the back of any grounded pot body is fine.
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Re: where to ground pickups?
Thank you mate. this world of offsets is just unique and different enough. No wonder it took those decades for the offsets to get that fender love and attention. Strange beasts indeed