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Permalink Reply by David L. on November 6, 2012 at 7:42am

You can ground them via the tailpiece - if you use a metal hinge for example you can run a ground to this, or if you are using the wooden through neck design you can add a metal plate on the underside that can act both as a grounding point to wire to and also stop the strings cutting into the wood.

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Permalink Reply by Troy on November 6, 2012 at 8:39am

Thanks for your help

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on November 7, 2012 at 12:10am

On my brickhouse build i used a brass rod as the string ground, i drilled a small hole in the end stuck the ground wire in and soldered it. On this build i made a rosewood burl bridge with a bone tip plus a bone nut which sounds great with the mag. pickup...and my homemade rail type surround. Can`t beat having the tone of bone on an electric pickup !

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Permalink Reply by Maddog on November 8, 2012 at 2:34am

I normally use a piece of bolt or some type of metal rod for the saddle so I drill a small hole in it and insert a wire through the bridge. Solder the wire in the hole in the saddle and it is concealed so you don't even know it's there.

You can just barely see the solder on the bottom end of the saddle bolt on this one, sometimes I will drill through and solder from both ends to get a good connection like on this git.

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Permalink Reply by Troy on November 9, 2012 at 11:38am

Thanks for all your help guys. I think I now have a plan for grounding.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on November 11, 2012 at 1:53am

This wooden bridge has an earth strap under the peg holes

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Permalink Reply by OBSIDIAN on December 12, 2014 at 5:48am

Awesome post. Had this same question.

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