Swanny's GR-1SF

[Swanny]

I got dragged out to a work Christmas dinner by my wife, and since I didn't really know anyone (this is a group that meets every year, though my wife left there 4 years ago, doesn't miss the job, but misses the people), I'm sitting there smiling, thinking, "What's the best way to earth the strings, without pulling the bridge post, and wrecking the veneer?"

I've come up with this plan.... the Bigsby style tailpiece is held on by three screws at the base. If I unscrew that, and drill a hole into the base of the guitar body inside the triangle created by the three screw holes, and feed a wire through the hole to inside the guitar and solder to an earth. The bit of wire outside the body, I'll strip that, tin it with solder to give it some substance, maybe in a small loop shape, and then mount the tailpiece with one of the screws going through the loop, clamping the earth wire between the tail piece and the body.

[Marcel]

I got dragged out to a work Christmas dinner by my wife, and since I didn't really know anyone (this is a group that meets every year, though my wife left there 4 years ago, doesn't miss the job, but misses the people), I'm sitting there smiling, thinking, "What's the best way to earth the strings, without pulling the bridge post, and wrecking the veneer?"

I've come up with this plan.... the Bigsby style tailpiece is held on by three screws at the base. If I unscrew that, and drill a hole into the base of the guitar body inside the triangle created by the three screw holes, and feed a wire through the hole to inside the guitar and solder to an earth. The bit of wire outside the body, I'll strip that, tin it with solder to give it some substance, maybe in a small loop shape, and then mount the tailpiece with one of the screws going through the loop, clamping the earth wire between the tail piece and the body.

Different, but should work. Biggest issue will be is how much wood is behind where that tail piece goes... you may have to drill at an angle or to one side to get into the body cavity more easily.

[Swanny]

Being a hollow body, I think there is a block of timber mounted inside for the tail piece to mount to, but I don't think it's more than 3 or 4 cm thick. I might get lucky!