shielding to bridge?

so i understand that i have to run a wire which is soldered to the copper shielding in my neck pup cavity to the volume pot. but do i have to do the same for the bridge? ie. run a wire soldered to the copper shielding in the bridge pup cavity and to the volume pot as well? or do i solder it from the vol pot to the bottom of the bridge?

so i understand that i have to run a wire which is soldered to the copper shielding in my neck pup cavity to the volume pot. but do i have to do the same for the bridge? ie. run a wire soldered to the copper shielding in the bridge pup cavity and to the volume pot as well? or do i solder it from the vol pot to the bottom of the bridge?

That is a good question smegolas,
The short answer is yes, everything should be grounded: the bridge itself as well as the shielding in the bridge pickup cavity.

You can do this multiple ways. One way is to make the bridge and the copper shielding continuous by leaving a shielding tab out so the bridge plate can make contact with it when it is screwed down into place. Like this:
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[credit for this picture goes to mrench01]

Then you could just ground the bridge shielding via a soldered wire to the back of the grounded pot, and in so doing, ground the bridge as well (since they are both now electrically continuous).

Some people prefer to ground the bridge directly. This is usually done by splaying out the end of a grounded wire and letting it get pressed up against the bridge once that is installed. A picture of a particularly nice example of this is shown below:
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[credit for this photo goes to mellecaster]

I should say that by default, bridges are usually thought to be grounded via the grounded bridge plate on the bottom of the tele bridge pickup (this plate is itself grounded by a dedicated wire for this purpose that you solder to the back of a pot). This plate is what the mounting screws go through, and those same screws also obviously touch the bridge. So theoretically the bridge should be grounded anyway in this manner.

But, I believe that many people don't trust this connection as it can come in-and-out, so to speak, with mechanical movement of the bridge pickup and the screws-- hence the desire to have the bridge grounded in a more stable and permanent way.

Does this help clear things up a little?

yes, awesome, thanks.