jumpchamp
08-18-2006, 09:37 AM
a thought i had while wiring up grounding for a guitar:
i like using vintage cloth pushback type wiring for guitars. but when you need to ground a bunch of wires together (like on a jazzmaster, for instance) it can be difficult sometimes to bundle them all up and get them all onto the back of a pot without making a mess or possibly bad connections.
would there be anything wrong, theoretically, with using a terminal strip (or maybe even a tube socket?) to tie all your grounds to one place? i was thinking something like this https://weberspeakerscom.secure.powweb.com/store/ts3.jpg
you could then wrap it in electrical tape to isolate it from the rest of the controls and leave it in the cavity. i suppose you could even use a higher gauge bare wire as a 'terminal' and wrap and solder the ground wires to that and then insulate. any faults in these ideas that i'm missing? i'm not quite the electronics whiz yet, so tell me if i'm crazy!
-greg
i like using vintage cloth pushback type wiring for guitars. but when you need to ground a bunch of wires together (like on a jazzmaster, for instance) it can be difficult sometimes to bundle them all up and get them all onto the back of a pot without making a mess or possibly bad connections.
would there be anything wrong, theoretically, with using a terminal strip (or maybe even a tube socket?) to tie all your grounds to one place? i was thinking something like this https://weberspeakerscom.secure.powweb.com/store/ts3.jpg
you could then wrap it in electrical tape to isolate it from the rest of the controls and leave it in the cavity. i suppose you could even use a higher gauge bare wire as a 'terminal' and wrap and solder the ground wires to that and then insulate. any faults in these ideas that i'm missing? i'm not quite the electronics whiz yet, so tell me if i'm crazy!
-greg