Ground wire, running to the bridge. If it weren't there, your guitar would buzz like crazy when plugged in. I have a jazz box (sort of a Byrdland copy) that the ground wire goes to the tail piece, thru the hollow body. The thing buzzed no matter what I did..made me crazy. I took the tail piece off and discovered the ground wire had sunk into the finish, and wasn't making contact with the tail piece. 1min later, buzz solved 👌
Totally a flaw. Why would the factory drill a hole through the body, run some kind of weird evil wire though it and then connect it to the rest of the wiring?!? How was this not caught by QA?!?!?? I would send it back and demand my money back.
/s for clarity.
It's the hair of old Saint Nicholas.
Generally a hole like that has a grounding wire for your bridge and runs to the volume potentiometer. Usually though, these are really hard to get out without being super deliberate about it (someone correct me if that’s wrong please)…makes me wonder what happened
Not hard to get out, or thread back in, if desoldered; it is as difficult as changing a string IME.
But yeah, 100% a ground wire
I’m sure it’s a ground wire my question is what the fuck with that soldering
That’s the grounding wire but my question is. Where the hell is the rest of that wire?! It should be similar to the rest in thickness. Not just a single strand of wire.
Put an Ohm meter on it and check it for bridge ground
Thanks for the comments, figured it was ground but you guys have confirmed it.
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probably to ground your bridge, to prevent you from getting shocked...
There is zero voltage going to the guitar from the amp. Pickups produce a tiny AC current. This ground reduces hum.
It's a pity it doesn't reduce the 60 cycle hum on a single coil...
Prevents nasty hum. If you're going to get shocked you're going to get shocked.
The true purpose of this wire is so that when your fingers touch the strings it reduces hum.
That is true :)
How would you get shocked? There is no current running to the guitar?
No current runs to your guitar. Your pickups produce a tiny amount of current, but nothing you would ever feel. It’s to reduce hum by grounding the bridge.
I’m in the process of upgrading the pots in this SE and there is what looks like an e string or similar gauge wire coming through the body into the cavity. Is this a flaw? A wire to use for grounding? Something else?
I bought the guitar new but who knows what quality standards exist in the post Covid era.
First time upgrading electronics so if it’s something common then forgive me. Thanks in advance!
This is what I’m pointing out for clarity https://i.imgur.com/tvHoXic.jpegÂ
What could this possibly have to do with Covid?
Looks like your bridge ground