Player Telecaster HH

[Nuklball]

Almost finished. No strings on yet and wiring is not done. Fretboard is dark rosewood with mother of pearl dots, neck is roasted maple.

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Curious if you copper taped / painted the cavities and grounded the bridge? I’m going to be starting a very similar build (my first) and want to know how others have been attacking the grounding topic. Some say humbuckers and skip the copper tape and play it like you stole it. Others meticulously ground every cavity for continuity and wire a ground under the bridge. Beautiful guitar by the way.

 

[David.Bernstein]

Curious if you copper taped / painted the cavities and grounded the bridge? I’m going to be starting a very similar build (my first) and want to know how others have been attacking the grounding topic. Some say humbuckers and skip the copper tape and play it like you stole it. Others meticulously ground every cavity for continuity and wire a ground under the bridge. Beautiful guitar by the way.

I copper taped only the control cavity on this one. The pickups are single coils but with three leads, one is a ground connected to the covers so I figured the pickup cavities didn't need shielding. When I sent the order I added a note about grounding the bridge and Warmoth drilled a hole for this at an angle from near the bridge screw mounting holes to the control cavity. So everything should be properly grounded when it's all hooked up. Btw, I don't know if my note was necessary, perhaps they would have drilled the hole anyway. I just threw it in there to make sure.

 

[Nuklball]

I copper taped only the control cavity on this one. The pickups are single coils but with three leads, one is a ground connected to the covers so I figured the pickup cavities didn't need shielding. When I sent the order I added a note about grounding the bridge and Warmoth drilled a hole for this at an angle from near the bridge screw mounting holes to the control cavity. So everything should be properly grounded when it's all hooked up. Btw, I don't know if my note was necessary, perhaps they would have drilled the hole anyway. I just threw it in there to make sure.

Thanks David. I definitely want a quiet guitar so I’ll probably invest the time to tape the cavities and run a ground wire under the bridge. Figure it’s better to spend the time up front versus ripping it all apart and doing it over.