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Old November 15th, 2008, 06:16 PM   #5 (permalink)
jwells393
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Since the pickup mounts to the bridge plate by three conductive screws which contact both the bridgeplate and the pickup plate, the bridgeplate is automatically grounded.
That's all well and good in theory and if you don't have a noise problem the theory is working. I have a '66 Telecaster that was always noisy until I ran a ground wire under the bridge.

You can just lay the stripped stranded ground wire up over the edge of the pickup cavity. mellecaster posted a picture once showing how he puts a small brad in the pickup cavity wall to hold the wire in place.

Well........ what do you know ....... I found his picture.

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