Where To Ground?

[riffster]

All of the guitars that I own are grounded in the tremolo cavity. I am building a guitar with a Tunomatic bridge. How do I string ground a tunomatic? Where is a good spot to do it. It is going to be recessed so do I have to somehow connect a wire to the bottom of the bridge? I'm confused.

Edited January 19, 2008 by riffster

[zyonsdream]

drill a hole from the bridge pickup cavity into the post hole for your TOM bridge feed the wire through the hole and when you push the bushing into hole it connects with the ground wire.

[riffster]

Thank you. I'll do that when the time comes.

[avengers63]

Shouldn't the hole go from the bushing hole to the control cavity and connect the wire to the common ground on the back of a pot, which then goes to the jack?

[GregP]

That's the typical scenario, yes. I use a washer in the control cavity as a common ground instead of the back of a pot, but it's the same idea. Really, though, as long as the wire ends up joining the common ground path without creating a ground loop, there's no actual rule. Whatever it takes.