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Post subject: Grounding issue - 2013 American Deluxe Telecaster
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 4:15 pm
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Can someone please help me with wiring diagram for this model with n3 pups!

Guitar features -2012/13 deluxe telecaster - ash with N3 pickups, S1 switching, and no-load tone pot.

Issue –Noisy grounding problem. I have to either touch the strings, bridge, string retainers or control panel/knobs to ground the guitar and the noise goes away.
I have popped the control panel and found that there is no ground wire from the tone pot to the control cavity and there is no bridge grounding wire either.

Q1. Regarding the new n3 pickups which have a third wire (green) is it not necessary to ground the guitar or was the grounding wires missed during the build?
Q2. Does all American deluxe teles have shielding paint?
Any advice would be appreciated :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: Grounding issue - 2013 American Deluxe Telecaster
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:51 pm
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The bridge isn't grounded ? if that is the case I would start there. If that doesn't work out I would suggest shielding the guitars cavity with copper shielding tape, The copper tape does a much better job than shielding paint, I would still shield the guitar with copper tape either way


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Post subject: Re: Grounding issue - 2013 American Deluxe Telecaster
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 2:50 am
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Thanks for the info.

I have copper sheilded the pickup cavities, scratch plate, And ran a ground from bridge mounting screw to the copper shielding in the control cavity (not the common earth and ground-tone pot). When I connect the tone pot to the copper shielding in the control cavity to garentee the circuit is complete I get huge feed back when hovering my hand over the rear pickup or signal wire for that matter.
In a nut shell I am still getting grounding issue after connecting all cavities through shielding. I am starting to think it is a faulty bridge pup. The front is fine feed back wise but still earthing issue.

I have n the past shielded my Gibsons PAF's and P90's with awesome results.

Any other ideas out there?


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Post subject: Re: Grounding issue - 2013 American Deluxe Telecaster
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 1:28 pm
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sorry I couldn't be of more help to you, maybe you can find your answer at the following page http://www.guitarelectronics.com/


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Post subject: Re: Grounding issue - 2013 American Deluxe Telecaster
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 1:52 am
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That's alright Kreature. Thanks for your time!


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