Need to wire PU cover to ground?

[simball]

So the neck pickup in my CVC "died" and was replaced with a Seymour Duncan STR-1. The new pickup was out of phase with the stock bridge pickup so I reversed the connection coming from the neck pickup. Everything sounds fine now except for loads of loud buzz when touching the neck pickup cover AND if a string comes in contact with the cover the sound cuts out. Is it true that running a ground wire from the tab on the pickup cover to the back of a pot will correct the problem? Before I bust open the tele again I just thought I would see if anyone has been able to fix this. BTW I've got a 3 way switch.

[simball]

Wait! If I reversed the wires that would mean that I need to move the jumper wire from the PU cover tab to the white wire. Right? I may have answered my own question!

[Thinlineggman]

Haha, it doesn't hurt anything to ground the cover anyways. And while you're in there you could throw in a 4-way if you so please;)

[sjtalon]

Add a wire to ground the cover. Check the bottom of this site out

http://www.guitar-mod.com/rg_4wayinfo.html

[simball]

Worked like a charm. I removed the jumper wire and ran a wire from the PU cover tab to the back of the volume pot. Thanks guys!

[sjtalon]

Great, and like Thin says..............GET A 4 WAY IN THERE !

[Thinlineggman]

Originally Posted by sjtalon

Great, and like Thin says..............GET A 4 WAY IN THERE !

+1

Come to the dark side!! We have cookies muahahaha!!!!

But honestly you won't loose anything other than a few bucks putting a 4-way in, and gain an extra tone!

[mattio]

I was in the same situation, cvc bridge pup died within a day and got replaced by a Suhr Classic T. Could not for the world of me figure out the out of phase thing and sent it of to a tech for a gothrough and it came back 4 weeks later with the out of phase thing sorted but with lots of noize when touching the neck pup. All this cost me about 90$ almost as much as the Suhr pickup itself :( Anyways, long story short, I did the same thing and clipped the cover grounding on the neck pickup and soldered on a new and ran it down to the volume pot and soldrerd it to it. The guitar has no niose issues whatsoever and I obviousely should have spent some more time on it myself and saved my 90$ . Oh well.