Guitar electronics question
 

ok, as some of you may know, im building a guitar body. right now i have an old floyd rose trem (think of a fender trem with fine tuners and a locking nut. you can't bend up on the trem, only dive bombs). i want to put a tune-o-matic bridge, like gibson guitars, on the guitar, but where would i solder the grounding wire? the guitar im gutting (i have a cheap guitar im going to take apart and im going to put the parts on to the new body) has the grounding wire soldered to the tremolo spring brace.

thanks for your help!

oh, does anyone know how much a tune-o-matic bridge with a stop tail piece and all the other stuff for the bridge cost?

also, the guitar is an explorer shape (james hetfield from metallica uses this style, if that helps). i already own an explorer, so i just traced the shape of the body on to a piece of poster board, and i traced it on to the wood im using.

my shop teacher cut up the old alder body i was using by accident, so im going to make the body out of good pieces of pine. i hope it turns out!!!

I have a hondo with a tune-o-matic bridge.
the ground wire is soldered to the metal collar that the
bridge pegs screw into.
Anything that makes contact to the strings will do!

Alpha phi is 100% correct.

dont use pine. use a better quality of wood, such as maple, walnut, ash or even oak. pine is best suited to things like park benches, IMHO.

---oh, does anyone know how much a tune-o-matic bridge with a stop tail piece and all the other stuff for the bridge cost?---

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/...o-matic+bridge

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If you don't want to pay $120 for a tone-pros tune-o-matic and stop tail peice, check out carvin's bridge peices. $20 for the tune-o-matic and $17 for the stop tail peice.

Tune-o-matic - http://www.carvin.com/cgi-bin/Isearc...&P2=TM6C&P1=HW

Stop Tail peice - http://www.carvin.com/cgi-bin/Isearc...&P2=ST6C&P1=HW

Good luck on the guitar!

if you take your time and do a good job of shielding i.e. no ground loops you don't even need a string ground.but be warned if not done right this could be dangerous but if your amp is properly grounded and you do your homework you will really like this set-up.you can actually get more gain out of your amp and it sounds great with no ground hum. check out guitarnuts web site.or check out "shielding the beast" on google

Pine is generally a poor material from which to make a guitar - too soft, too much movement in the wood. If you've gotten a hold of some old-growth pine, that might work. Pine from old growth forests has a much tighter grain than what you usually see today. It's harder and more stable. My 90-year-old house has pine beams that I am unable to nail into. It's that hard. But like Sion said, pine wouldn't be my first choice.

Warmoth is a bit cheaper. You can get the TOM for $14 for chrome (18 for black or gold) and the stop tailpiece for $12. A slightly cheaper option would be to use a TOM, and get furrules to run the strings through body. Furrules go for $0.84 each from Warmoth.

And one more vote not to use pine. Cheap construction grade pine is no good for guitars. You'll be wishing you used something better as long as you own the instrument. Old growth instrument grade pine will probably cost you more than good hard wood. Ash, alder, maple, and walnut are all readily availible domestic woods, don't cost too much, and make great guitars.