First Build: Red and Black Wilko Johnson Telecaster

[Simon Barden]

Hi Mark. Yes, the bridge plate is normally connected to the pickup ground wire. From your photo, from the blob of solder on the bridge plate it looks like the braid on the red wire was once connected to the solder, but wasn't soldered well and it's pulled away from it.

Cue Mission Impossible music....

Your task, should you wish to accept it, is to do a better job and reconnect it so that it doesn't pull off again. It might be easier to wrap some bare wire round the braid, solder that to the braid and then solder the wire to the base plate.

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[Mark Gill]

Hi Mark. Yes, the bridge plate is normally connected to the pickup ground wire. From your photo, from the blob of solder on the bridge plate it looks like the braid on the red wire was once connected to the solder, but wasn't soldered well and it's pulled away from it.

Cue Mission Impossible music....

Your task, should you wish to accept it, is to do a better job and reconnect it so that it doesn't pull off again. It might be easier to wrap some bare wire round the braid, solder that to the braid and then solder the wire to the base plate.

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Once I've done all that I'll have to go and lie down in a dark room, with a cool flannel over my eyes, and a mint juelp in hand..