Soldering help

[GrandmaShreds]

Okay so I have a set of Tex Mex pickups I want to install into my Telecaster as well as a new pre-wired control plate.

My situation is as follows:
The Tex Mex bridge pickup has a super short ground wire. I plan on putting copper shielding tape in all the cavities so would I be able to solder the ground wire right to the copper tape? Or, can I just ground it right to the bridge plate (like lay the wire onto the body and let the bridge plate touch it)?
The other part includes grounding the control plate to the control plate cavity via grounding lug. The control plate I have has the ground wire attached to it already that has a ground lug which they want you to screw into the body. If the cavity is shielded with copper tape, then I would just have to screw the wire into the body and have it touch the copper tape.
Another alternative is just splicing a longer wire onto the ground wire coming from the bridge pickup and then soldering it to the volume pot along with the neck pickup and then screwing the ground lug from the control plate into the body.

Help?

 

[rolandson]

The more solid your connections, the greater the reliability. Don't ask me how something as innocent as a ground connection can find a way to wiggle and break free..they just do.

If it were me I'd opt for adding a little bit of wire to you "too short" lead. You can always shorten it later.

About those solid grounds...
Everything you can do to increase the integrity of them will help. I've never been a fan of relying on passive connections...the reliance of proximity to insure a viable ground... I'm a fan of wire and solder, even when it's just plain redundant.