Help me fix my wiring

So, I've built this la cabronita tele clone and I've got it wired up but it doesn't seem to be right. It's making a noise that goes away when I touch the guitar but it's fairly loud and now the pot is scratching when I move it.

It's really driving me insane and this is my main touring guitar. Help. Please help. Any kind of diagrams, etc.

It's got 1 filtertron in the bridge wired to a volume pot, no tone control.

So, I've built this la cabronita tele clone and I've got it wired up but it doesn't seem to be right. It's making a noise that goes away when I touch the guitar but it's fairly loud and now the pot is scratching when I move it.

It's really driving me insane and this is my main touring guitar. Help. Please help. Any kind of diagrams, etc.

It's got 1 filtertron in the bridge wired to a volume pot, no tone control.

Without anything else to go on, if it's a new pot, and it's scratchy, there's a good chance you got a bum pot. Try replacing it. The noise you describe--that goes away when you touch your guitar (and I'm assuming you mean the metallic parts of your guitar) -- sounds like the old reverse grounds we had with older tube amps. In those days, you flipped the ground switch and the noise went away. (Until the death cap failed, and then you got electrocuted:shock: ) Are other guitars quiet with the same amp? If they're quiet, perhaps you have the ground and hot leads reversed from your Cabro. pick up? Just thinking out loud, here, based on my experiences.

Like, would I try it from the pickup or from the input jack as far as reversing the wire? If after I clean the pot it is still scratchy, I'll try replacing it. Which would be lame.

Also, thank you.

Ok I tried that both ways, and it actually seemed to make it worse. Could it be shielding issues?

It's probably shielding issues. You should be able to read continuity to ground from any metal part of the guitar. The best way to test this is to stick a cord in the guitar and check for continuity between the strings, bridge, control plate, etc. to the barrel of the amp end of the cord. Not the tip, though. If you have continuity between the strings and the tip, chances are your output jack is wired backwards.

I FIXED IT! Apparently it wasn't wired properly as far as grounding. I had the ground going correctly to the pot but I needed an extra ground wire to the bridge of the guitar. Did this and now it's solid damn gold! WAHOO!

Thank you everyone!