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Post subject: Fender Telecaster bridge pickup how to wire the ground
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 4:22 am
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I recently bought a seymour duncan hotrail bridge pickup for my fender telecaster and ran into a problem while connecting the wires using the following diagram:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/pro ... vD_web.pdf

i wired the red and white wires together and the black to the 3 way switch.
the green and bare wires i soldered together, however in the diagram these are connected to the back of the volume pot. the old wire from the origional pickup had a seperate wire coming from the pickup, grounded by a small metal disk on the pickup, then connected to a metal plate under the pickup and then grounded a third time under the control plate with another metal plate. however the seymour duncan wiring guide shows the ground wires going straight to the volume pot.

how do i wire the ground, is it already grounded if i connect the ground wire to the volume pot? im new to this

thanks for any help


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster bridge pickup how to wire the ground
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:23 am
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red_racoon wrote:
I recently bought a seymour duncan hotrail bridge pickup for my fender telecaster and ran into a problem while connecting the wires using the following diagram:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/pro ... vD_web.pdf

i wired the red and white wires together and the black to the 3 way switch.
the green and bare wires i soldered together, however in the diagram these are connected to the back of the volume pot. the old wire from the original pickup had a separate wire coming from the pickup, grounded by a small metal disk on the pickup, then connected to a metal plate under the pickup and then grounded a third time under the control plate with another metal plate. however the seymour duncan wiring guide shows the ground wires going straight to the volume pot.

how do i wire the ground, is it already grounded if i connect the ground wire to the volume pot? im new to this

thanks for any help


Welcome!

I'll spare you all the differences between the OEM pickup and the Duncan but here's what you have to do. Please read through this whole explanation first before starting:

With the Duncan, you have to add a ground wire for the bridge and strings. Take a piece of wire and loop the shaved end around one of the already installed bridge pickup's mounting screws, enough so that it will always be in firm contact with the screw. You'd do best to solder the loop so that it stays as a loop permanently. Run the other end of this wire to the volume pot and solder it.

If, when you have the selector switch in the middle position you experience a radical volume drop along with a hollow, nasal tonality and no bass, your pickups are out of phase with each other. Simply reverse the soldered positions of the Duncan's black and green wires.

That's it!

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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster bridge pickup how to wire the ground
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:58 pm
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Martian wrote:
With the Duncan, you have to add a ground wire for the bridge and strings. Take a piece of wire and loop the shaved end around one of the already installed bridge pickup's mounting screws, enough so that it will always be in firm contact with the screw. You'd do best to solder the loop so that it stays as a loop permanently. Run the other end of this wire to the volume pot and solder it.

If, when you have the selector switch in the middle position you experience a radical volume drop along with a hollow, nasal tonality and no bass, your pickups are out of phase with each other. Simply reverse the soldered positions of the Duncan's black and green wires


Thanks for the reply. i was confused because the fender wiring in my telecaster and the fender wiring on the seymour duncan instructions are not the same. It's my first pickup installation so just to verify:

i need to wire the ground (green and bare wire) to the back of the volume pot and then run a separate wire to the pickup to attach to one of the screws, just two questions asuming i've understood correctly

1. previously the pickup was grounded using a metal disk around the screw, could i solder the grounded wire to the disk or does it need to be the screw its self?

2. the existing wire runs from the back of the volume pot to a small peice of metal attatched to the guitar with a screw, another wire then runs from that through the bridge cavity to another peice of metal and then finally a thrid wire went from that to the old pickup.....so could i just un-solder the old pickup and use a new wire. the problem was that the old wire went into the pickup itself but i assume that if i attatched it to a screw or such then that would ground it in the same way???

thanks for the help :P


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster bridge pickup how to wire the ground
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:09 pm
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red_racoon wrote:
Martian wrote:
Thanks for the reply. i was confused because the fender wiring in my telecaster and the fender wiring on the seymour duncan instructions are not the same. It's my first pickup installation so just to verify:

i need to wire the ground (green and bare wire) to the back of the volume pot and then run a separate wire to the pickup to attach to one of the screws, just two questions asuming i've understood correctly

1. previously the pickup was grounded using a metal disk around the screw, could i solder the grounded wire to the disk or does it need to be the screw its self?

2. the existing wire runs from the back of the volume pot to a small piece of metal attached to the guitar with a screw, another wire then runs from that through the bridge cavity to another piece of metal and then finally a third wire went from that to the old pickup.....so could i just unsolder the old pickup and use a new wire. the problem was that the old wire went into the pickup itself but i assume that if i attached it to a screw or such then that would ground it in the same way???

thanks for the help :P


You're quite welcome. Let's go shot for shot:

The answer is yes to your second paragraph.

1. Yes. The metal disk would replace the loop.

2. Yes. Even though the OEM wire makes a few 'pit stops', it ultimately runs from the volume pot to one of the pickup's height adjustment screws, thereby achieving the same ground path.

Again, you're quite welcome. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask. Good luck!

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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster bridge pickup how to wire the ground
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:32 pm
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Martian wrote:
red_racoon wrote:
Martian wrote:
You're quite welcome. Let's go shot for shot:

The answer is yes to your second paragraph.

1. Yes. The metal disk would replace the loop.

2. Yes. Even though the OEM wire makes a few 'pit stops', it ultimately runs from the volume pot to one of the pickup's height adjustment screws, thereby achieving the same ground path.

Again, you're quite welcome. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask. Good luck!


i'll give it a try when i can get hold of some stranded wire, feeling more confident now i know how to ground it. thanks very much and i'll be sure to ask if i have any problems :P


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