Guys im losing my mind with this grounding issue

[Rabbitz]

Fair point Rabbitz, but guitars (normally) should have two though, one at the jack and another at the bridge?
Loops shouldn't really be common in guitars as the wiring always ends up at the jack, correct?

I am talking about electrical grounds - the bridge is just another earthing point. It does not provide a return path to a different earth potential.

The only path to electrical ground *should* be via the output jack ground.

If you have a path to a different electrical ground via the bridge and by extension the strings I don't want to be standing in that spot holding that guitar - who knows what stray voltage you might experience...

I would expect that it is important to make sure the bridge is grounded (I haven't really thought about this) is that the string are probably a pretty good antenna, and may have voltage (and therefore noise) induced into them - grounding them will overcome this.

I am more than happy to be corrected on any of this. I have experience in electronics/radio/electrical but not a lot of experience of guitar electrics per se. (I've plugged plenty of 'em in, and repaired a few that had electricals come to grief, but I've never looked at the electrics in detail...