Originally Posted by: stahlhart... edit: Back then I also primarily owned Gibson or Gibson-styled guitars with humbucking pickups. The GuitarNuts site seems to focus more on Stratocaster and Telecaster wiring, and I'm guessing that single-coil pickup leads still aren't shielded?

C.K.

Actually, the humbucking pickups are the only thing that saves old Giiby's from making a lot of noise. They often have a piece of foil on the mounting surface of the control cavity, plus using the pot shells as grounding points for the pickup wires.

Ground loops!

To see what those circuits really look like, draw a complete schematic, showing where the 'ground' wires are actually terminated, instead of just drawing a ground symbol at the attachment points. If there is a ground foil, show the connection it makes between the pot shells and the jack. A very illuminating exercise.