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9)
Mount the bridge pickup into the bridge plate using the three 6-32 UNC screws supplied and the Red
silicon rubber spring tubes over those screws.
NOTE:
The bridge pickup has a layer of copper over the baseplate which provides a grounding path via
the mounting screws to the bridge and strings. The screws should always protrude at least slightly through
the baseplate in order to contact the copper plate. No other bridge ground wire is necessary, but will not
harm anything if it already exists and is re-used, although the screw terminal block has limited access.
CAUTION:
Failure to get a good connection between the 3 screws and the copper plate will result in
dreadful noise, especially when you touch the strings.
10)
Poke the pickup cables through the connecting tunnels into the control cavity.
Hint
: If you have a Warmoth
Tele body you will see they drill the wiring connecting tunnel for the neck pickup on an excessively steep
angle causing the tunnel to exit below the control cavity floor. To provide clearance for the harness
connector it will be necessary to remove a small amount of wood as shown in the diagram below. This is
preferable to cutting the harness cable.
11)
Mount the output jack socket to the side mounting plate (recessed or flush). On most Teles it is preferable
not to remove the mounting plate from the guitar, the socket can be inserted via the control cavity into the
socket cavity. However with certain Teles it may be necessary to remove the jack mounting plate to gain
access to the jack socket. On these types of guitars there may be a small diameter tunnel connecting the
socket cavity to the control cavity. Thread the cable through the tunnel into the control cavity. The two
plugs on the cable should be piggy backed, one inside the back of the other, as depicted in the photo (1)
below. This arrangement makes it easier to feed through the connecting tunnel.
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NOTE: The Star washer should
not
be fitted on the outside underneath the nut, but only on the inside
between the mounting plate and the socket.
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Make sure
the socket is tightened in the position where the *hot* leaf-spring terminal is centred on the
recessed jack holder, otherwise it might contact the wall of the cavity and cause a partial short via the
wood or shielding resulting is BAD sound. Also this makes the plug difficult to insert.
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On some copy guitars it may be necessary to enlarge the cavity to avoid the short mentioned above.
Photo 1
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Connecting tunnel
Neck
pickup
cavity
Control
cavity
Diagram 1: Applies Only to
Warmoth Tele bodies
Remove small section of wood from floor of cavity to provide
clearance for harness connector to exit the tunnel.