Quick Wiring Question

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Hey! So I have a strat that I had wired 1V/1T, where the tone knob was push-pull to add the neck pickup to any position. I'm modding it so that instead of a push-pull making that happen, it's a DPDT switch. My question is, what do I need to do to ground it?

(to be clear, I have the pickup lead connecting to the middle lug of one side. Of the other two lugs on that side, one goes to the 5 way switch and one goes straight to the volume pot. This is exactly how I had the switch part of the push-pull wired)
 
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It's wired exactly the same as the push-pull pot was. If the push-pull was SPDT, you can just wire it on one half of the SPDT switch.
 
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Right, but on a push-pull, you don't have to worry about grounding the switch since it's in the same housing as the pot. But do you need to ground the switch too now that they're separate?
 
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There's two different issues here. One, is making the "split" contact connect to ground. You simply solder a wire from the switch lug to a convenient ground. The other is reducing "hum" when you touch the switch. For that, you need one of those star washers that has the solder lug on it. It goes between the switch mounting bushing and the body/pickguard. Solder it to ground also.
 
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Okay, which switch lug do I connect to ground? I'm not having trouble with the switch giving me hum (probably because the guitar's already pretty noisy -- could really use some shielding in the cavity).
Also, an unpleasant side effect: my tone knob has stopped doing anything. All of the contacts look exactly like they did on the old push-pull, and they seem to be exactly what a tone knob should be. Could wiring the switch have anything to do with this?
Sorry for the delayed response. I've been pulled in a lot of different directions lately and haven't had time to get around to this little guitar.
 
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in a word
yea
the wiring could affect the tone

could we get a picture of the wiring

then we could point at the suspects
 
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Scuff up the side metal panel with sandpaper, put flux on it, and solder a ground wire to it same as any other device.
 
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For the Tone knob, there was probably a wire from the switch to the pot contacts. If nothing's touching the pot contacts, it's not going to work.

Jump the Tone to the Volume directly.
 
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The volume knob hasn't been touched since before the change -- still a wire connecting volume straight to tone. Will get around to wiring the ground wire for the DPDT switch soon.




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