Tele Wiring 101

[cacibi]

I've been working on a Saga Tele kit to cut my teeth on some basics before moving on to a more complicated build project. The wiring was set up with all grounds running to the volume pot except the .05 tone cap which was run from lug 2 on the tone, to ground on the tone. Also there was a ground wire running from the tone pot to the bridge plate. After doing some reading, this ground to the bridge plate seemed extraneous since there was a already a ground from the bridge pickup, to it's bottom plate which should be connected to the bridge through contact with the pickup mounting screws. I removed this and moved the .05 cap ground from the tone pot to the volume pot via lug 3. Now the rig is wired exactly as show here:

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/I-3191.html

Sound right?

[lovekraft]

Yes, that's a lot less likely to cause ground loop problems.

[Brian]

My first thought is when you switch to the neck only pickup will your ground still be there?

But I'm weak when it comes to electronics still.

[cacibi]

Well, the way it seems to me is that since the neck pup ground is on the same component as all others, it should still feed its ground back to the bridge plate, event when in the 'neck only' position on the switch.

[Biohazard]

I don't see any problems with that but I may be missing something. But as far as I can see, both pickups are grounded.

[hy_dro66]

Looks good to me.

[lovekraft]

So lng as you're wired exactly like that StewMac diagram, you'll be fine. If there's any doubt, use a multimeter to check your bridge for continuity to ground - if there's no continuity, run a separate wire from the bridge plate to the back of the volume pot (the grey line in the StewMac diagram).