Bad Tele Ground. Please Help.

[StalePretzel]

Ok so i did some researching. Let me break it down. I recently installed some Highway one tele pickups into my nocaster project. Instead of bolting down the ground wire to the wood (not enough wood, it would go right through the body), I just decided to attach the ground to the bridge pickup and bridge like a normal tele. It IS in contact with the bridge but i still get MAD hum from these things.

Whenever i touch the knobs it silences in the middle position, but is still quite noisy in the bridge and neck position. Anyone have any ideas what i could do to shut this thing the help up? Thanks!

 

[darnright]

Re: Bad Tele Ground. Please Help.

If you have a ground from the pots to the bridge and both pickups...and you have all your pots grounded. I would look for a cold solder joint. That's all the grounds I run. I get the standard amout of hum form hot single coil pups...but no grounding hum and the pup hum goes away in the middle position.

Sounds like a bad solder joint...I fought one for quite a while, finally went through and resoldered every joint. Fixed.

-dave

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: Bad Tele Ground. Please Help.

Check to make sure all spots that are wired to ground are connected. It helps to have all your grounds in one spot but usually there's one on each pot so run a wire to connect them if there isn't one already. Did you tin the wire with solder that you put between the bridge and wood? that helps. Even still though, when its wired perfect it will only be quieter when your touching the strings/hardware.

In the end though, when you fix it, it will still have 60 cycle hum on bridge or neck, and if it's quiet in the middle it's because the neck is RWRP from the bridge. If you really want zero hum, order some stacked Tele pickups. Love it or leave it.