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jwin615 said:
Maybe ground a mounting screw, get good metal to metal contact(remove chrome etc from the tailpiece screw holes). Hopefully there's enough metal to metal contact between the strings and the tailpiece and the tailpiece isn't insulated via any coating
Easy enough to check resistance with a spare string
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Grounding the tailpiece is not a problem. I can just pull out a ground wire under its plate and solder it. Here's how it looks, see the existing jack below it for the preamp + piezo. Far right you can see the new jack I added for the new pickup.

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And this is the preamp in the upper bout. I hate the way electro-acoustics sound.

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So the issues with the tailpiece are: narrow string spacing, tilted angle, low break angle.

The alternative is to install this Tele Bridge right behind the wooden bridge for maximum break angle, remove the saddles and top load the strings. This one has the right string spacing and it's easy to pull out a ground wire and solder it to the side. It's 45 Euros though.

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andare said:
I was looking for a more permanent solution. Do you have pics of your solution?
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A tad ghetto, but it works. This runs to the jack casing. You could find a nicer wire I suppose.

I should note the tuning pegs are the on-line 3 to a side connected types, so I only have to get the wire from string 1 to 4. ( For a 6 string guitar)
 

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Uff it's done. The strings are grounded but this HB always hums a bit cause the coils don't really match, and of course I make the guitar buzz if I don't touch the strings and ground myself. Hey, it's lo-fi!

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The blob of solder won't let the plate sit flush. I stopped trying for fear of stripping the screws.

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Yesterday I yanked the electrolytics out of my mesa studio .22 to be ready for recapping. This one's definitely on the chopping block when it's fixed. It bears the stink of bad purchasing decisions.

Today I finally sorted out my MIA Fender Blues DeVille 212 with new speakers (Warehouse Veteran 30, Retro 30 HP), new tubes (JJ 5881, Sovtek 12AX7LPS), and a Mod reverb tank. It was a "Chewie, we're home" nostalgia moment when it fired up. This was my first tube amp way back in the mid 90s. I'd like to replace the tired cabinet but the only option I've found so far puts it in a 1x12 narrow panel deluxe style cabinet.
 
Wired up the Scabbard this week - had a lot of other stuff to do so only had very little time to spend with it so far, but it seems pretty nice. Sorta seemed like one of those "it sounds good no matter how you dial it in" type things that's very nicely tuned.

I first put in D9E diodes, but broke one of them putting it in the socket. Decided to use a D9L I had instead and see how it is if it's a little asymmetric, but that broke too. So I ended up putting in two of the NOS soviet diodes I bought a while back.

The print came out a bit anemic and yellow, but it works out pretty ok still.
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vigilante398 said:
It wouldn't be a vacation unless I got to redo the shitty wiring in the bathroom of the apartment I'm staying in. Just converted a 3-phase outlet to a single phase so my aunt-in-law (that's a thing, right?) can use her new washing machine, now trying to figure out why the outlet for the fancy electric bidet isn't working.

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What tube did you use and what is the tone stack?
 
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