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Ground wires screwed under humbucker pickups and in the electric cavity ?

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  • Ground wires screwed under humbucker pickups and in the electric cavity ?

    Hello everyone! I recently bought an used Jackson Kelly KE3 made in Japan in 2002/03 and started to look at it more in details. It's a very simple, yet effective, pickup configuration: 2 Duncan Designed Detonators HB108 humbuckers (look like Invaders, sound like Distortions), 3 way toggle switch and master volume, no coil tapping or phase switching. I opened the back cavity and this is what I found inside:
    1) https://ibb.co/mRg7Tjc
    2) https://ibb.co/XCkH4s2
    3) https://ibb.co/NtbywfD

    I see that under each pickup, in their cavities, there's a ground wire screwed into the body of the guitar and they go along with the pickups' 4 connector wire into the wiring cavity. Are those two black wires useful, since each humbucker is already "grounded" with its bare and black wire to the side of the 3-way toggle switch? Isn't this a useless ground loop?
    I'm thinking of de-soldering those screwed wires and re-solder them all together on the back of the volume pot, but I might be totally wrong and would like to understand why. Thanks!
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    Re: Ground wires screwed under humbucker pickups and in the electric cavity ?

    that's to ground the shielding of each cavity.

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