Jumble Jumble
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Callaham's vintage bridge is good - it has the sidewalls, so it looks vintage, but they're lowered, so they're not in the way. Good compromise.
Bridge grounding
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I've found Teles to be the easiest to ground because they have so many options. You can do the wire under the bridge. You can do the solder to tape thing. You can do an eyelet between the spring and bridge plate. Some pickups even have the metal plate on the bottom which are self grounding.
On the hardtail Strat, I'd do the tape method. It's hardly noticeable in the gap between the bridge and pickguard.
As for soldering and surface area and contact and circular mils of wire, all of the wire in a guitar circuit is already mega oversized for the current it's carrying. It's as small as it can be to still be workable. Compare it to the size of wire the pickup is wound with. It's the same circuit afterall. The instrument cable wire is only upsized for durability and signal loss due to distance.
On the hardtail Strat, I'd do the tape method. It's hardly noticeable in the gap between the bridge and pickguard.
As for soldering and surface area and contact and circular mils of wire, all of the wire in a guitar circuit is already mega oversized for the current it's carrying. It's as small as it can be to still be workable. Compare it to the size of wire the pickup is wound with. It's the same circuit afterall. The instrument cable wire is only upsized for durability and signal loss due to distance.
