Help wiring

[McCreed]

Another way to ground a tele bridge without a hole in the body (and my preferred method) is via one of the bridge pickup mounting/adjustment screws.

You solder an eye terminal to the bridge ground wire, then when you mount the pickup to the bridge plate, slip the eye terminal over one of the mounting screws between the bottom of the bridge plate and the mounting spring. The eye terminal makes contact with the bridge and the screw, which passes through to the brass plate of the bridge pickup. Everything is tied together now. D-u-n... dun.

[Sonic Mountain]

Yeah that's a really good idea.

[McCreed]

Just thought I'd post this as a follow-on from post #15 or for anyone that's curious...

Here's a pic of the trace wafer from a 7 lug import switch. As I mentioned in the previous post, you can see that the connections are made between the traces and lever contact by moving the lever in the same direction as the the terminals where the (+) pickup leads would be soldered. With a standard CRL-style lever switch, the (+) pickup leads would be soldered opposing to the lever direction because the contact points are on either side of the phenolic wafer.

You can also see how the (+) leads could be soldered to either the two end lugs ( as Sonic described) or either inner lugs as long as they're bridged to connect both neck & bridge pickups simultaneously in the middle switch position. Hope someone finds this useful.

[G8tr]

Hi All ... I wanted to update you about the wiring issues i was having, and to thank you greatly for your assistance. Things just werent adding up no matter how hard i looked at it ... then ... like a bolt from above .... the PRE WIRING HAD USED SINGLE CORES ... there was no splitting to find the earth... it had a separate earth all along ... now i DIDNT have an extra wire or two ... the pre wiring HAD used a twin for the linkages on th epots ... but everything else was single core ... youd think that there might have been a warning attached - after all even the video has the dual cores intrinsic to the wiring instructions. Ahhhhhhh never mind ....got there in the end. Huge thanks to the suggestions ... they were all very worthwhile, and i think i learned a bit too. For your edification: The Guitar

[jugglindan]

Glad you got it sorted in the end. I think there are as many wiring schemes as there are pickups. Why can't they all just use consistent colours and standards?!!???

The tele looks awesome.

[Simon Barden]

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[jugglindan]

Simon, as a software engineer I can say that is sadly true much of the time

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[FrankenWashie]

Simon, as a software engineer I can say that is sadly true much of the time

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I work in fluid systems...I feel your pain.

[G8tr]

Well, my eyes are opened ... ill never do it again ... never.

except for the new build im doing ... should be simple enough yeah? yeah?

[McCreed]

I work in fluid systems...I feel your pain.

Does that mean you are a bartender, or urologist?