Umm... Did I Just Cause Myself Lots Of Work?

[JimRayden]

The grounding wire of TOM bridge of my ESP broke off. Will I have to take out the mounting... things... I don't know what you call them. You know the things that are placed in the hole in wood to screw the TOM into. It's lots of work but I don't see any other way.

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Jimbo

[frank falbo]

It just depends on if you can get in there and splice it. If you can't then you have to replace the wire. Or tap some thick solid core brass rod into that hole, so that hopefully its making contact, and solder a ground wire to that.

[JimRayden]

Of course, the other choice is take the wire there externally. I think I'll do that since my guitar's external looks messed up enough already (because of many attempts to install the sustainer. )

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Jimbo

[Digideus]

I once earthed a bridge by drilling a hole in teh bridge pickup surround and running some wire from teh bridge through the hole and onto the earth point on the pot. Sounded fine and looked ok cos u actually couldnt see it unless you looked real close.

If its as beat up as you say, do it externally.

[Drak]

Here's an idea.

Take a roll of the copper shielding tape and cut a design out, really neatly with a sharp exacto knife, like 2 lightening bolts that head away from the posts and maybe meet at the strap pin or something, make sure the tape touches the post, hook your connection up at the other end of the tape somehow and there you have your connection, 'hide in plain sight'.

[JimRayden]

Thanks, Digideus. I'll run the wire from the bridge pickup.

Thanks Drak, I'm not a lightning bolt type of player. I'm more of a wire-through-bridge-pickup-ring type of guitarist.

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Jimbo