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Put that on the list! I've made 2 so far and they're a lot of fun, but a lot more work than a simple CBG, since I haven't found a cigar box that fits a License plate, so I have to make the box..
Somehow, you'll need to run a wire from the jack ground to the strings. If you have a metal tail piece, ground the tail piece. If you are running strings through, you can glue a small copper plate to the spot where the strings go through the neck; drill holes so that ball ends rest on plate, with rest of string going through plate and neck. Solder a wire to the plate, and run that wire to the jack ground. Or, come up with your own adaptation. Just know that each string must be properly grounded, or it will act like an antenna, picking up all sorts of interference.
Every wiring diagram you could ever need:
Thanks for the link Dan Sleep!
Some of those Sguier pickups sound good, but if you don't like them you do a lot of mods to make them better. Change pot values, change the tone cap values, no tone circuit just volume, treble bleed circuits, bass and treble roll off circuits and varitone circuits. My favorite, is 2 single coil pups, one middle with a neck or bridge pup and wire them together in series as a humbucker. That makes them sound great to me, but requires changing to 500k pots and .022 caps.
Lots of ideas, mods and schematics to be found on the internet.
Ground the strings at the tail piece where the strings connect/anchor.
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