Grounds

[GuitarBaker]

Ok - this may be a silly question but I have to ask anyway.  Why foes one ground to the back ot the volume or Tone Pot?  With the exception of a capacitor that may require grounding to the Pot itself - I see no reason why I can say - tie the pickup and jack ground together put them in a small grounding harness and mount the harness direct to the body with a metal screw.  Why go through all the hassel trying to run everything to a single soldered point on a POT them run a single wire to a grounded screw?  Can someone fimd fault with my reasoning?  I figured that the pots themselves were grounded because 1) the shielding tape they touch and with rear routed pots mine are connected to the body directly (Grounded) no?

 

[jackthehack]

The grounding point of the physical back of the pot needs be tied to the ground OUT side of the output jack - as so ALL ground points in the circuit, so it is actually connected to a REAL ground, through the amp circuit. Shielding tape is NOT "grounded" by itself, unless it is tied to the ground circuit LEAVING the guitar/bass. The body of the guitar/bass is NOT grounded, how could it be, it's wood...

 

[-CB-]

.... sips Drambuie....

Ya know my coffee has good grounds.

 

[-CB-]

Then again the reason Lucy and Ricky aren't together, was the sediment in his coffee.

Grounds for divorce.

... keeps sipping Drambuie....







<merry Christmas!>

 

[-CB-]

most teens get grounded by losing driving and internet privileges.... but when I got grounded it involved a lightning rod......

 

[GuitarBaker]

Now that makes perfect sense - thanks!!!