Quarter Pounder Tele Neck -Separate Cover Ground Yes or No?

[ThreeChordWonder]

Standard pots, no push-pulls, but a Schaller Type M five-way switch.

With the switch, the neck hot goes to the switch, the neck coil ground grounds to a pot casing. The bridge hot and ground both go to the switch. The question is really whether I need to add a third wire to ground the neck's chrome cover separately.

Circuit diagram at the very bottom of this page:

https://schaller.info/en/megaswitch-m

Thanks in advance.

 

[zionstrat]

It's late, and maybe I'm missing something but what combinations are you looking for on the five way?

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

The Schaller Megaswitch M gives me the standard Tele three in positions 1, 3, and 5, plus neck and bridge parallel (half?) out of phase in position 2 and and neck and bridge in series in position 4.

I started using the Schaller Megaswitches because they're not as deep (mounting plate to base of switch) or as wide (short dimension left to right) and therefore fit into Tele cavities much better than the Fender Superswitch. The Fender Superswitch is too wide and in one case was too deep for an off spec body I bought cheap.

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[jeremy]

if the neck ground goes to ground (back of the pot) you dont need to separate things

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

^ Thanks