jazz bass bridge earth ...not connected! Am I going to fry?

[gafbass02]

I recently removed the emgs from my blue 62ri jazz and paid a well known local store to wire in the new electronics which I supplied, the pots,pups and brass earth jobbies that go under the pups. As it's a 60s model it has the visible strip on the front.this was a job beyond my technical ablitues so I paid to get it done among other work. On getting it home it really buzzed but in my house most basses do but this was really bad. I unscrewed the pups to look at shielding it and found the bridge brass doodah wasn't connected to anything!!!! So I soldered it to one of the pots is this right? Bit gutted really I paid and he did half a job. Specially as the guy plays a 60s jazz hmself figured he'd know how to wire one!
I wired to the neck pup vol pot chassis which was where the neck pup earth brass doodah was wired to is this ok?

Edited November 17, 2008 by gafbass02

[gafbass02]

iPhone foible, I don't seem to be able to edit posts on the Iphone so excuse me replying to my own post! I just wanted to add that I shielded the bass with adhesive copper as well and the buzz has gone as much as it ever does in my house, so it worked but am I going to fry?

[Geek99]

mine (a 62 Reissue CIJ) is connected to the bridge, I'm interested to hear that adhesive copper has reduced your hum levels as I took delivery of some copper tape just today and was wondering how much difference it would really make. .

[bremen]

[quote name='gafbass02' post='329391' date='Nov 14 2008, 08:33 PM']iPhone foible, I don't seem to be able to edit posts on the Iphone so excuse me replying to my own post! I just wanted to add that I shielded the bass with adhesive copper as well and the buzz has gone as much as it ever does in my house, so it worked but am I going to fry?[/quote]

No, you are not going to fry. The reason the bridge is grounded is to rduce hum, not a safety thing.

[gafbass02]

that's good to know, well i'm still alive and the shielding has really helped. So just to check it's ok that I wired the earth plate thing to the pot?

[bremen]

[quote name='gafbass02' post='332587' date='Nov 19 2008, 07:53 PM']that's good to know, well i'm still alive and the shielding has really helped. So just to check it's ok that I wired the earth plate thing to the pot?[/quote]

Yes, that's fine.

Happy to hear you're still buzzing, and the bass isn't :-)