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Originally Posted by Drudeboy
This looks pretty much like stock wiring to me, using the central grounding point on the plate, The pot chassys on the tones controls are grounded by them being bolted to the ground plate, rather than any grounding shield soldered to it.
Your guitar is grounded, all this means is that there is a phyical connection between the strings and the ground of the wiring. Easy to double check this, get a mutilmeter on continuity beep setting, touch your strings with one probe and a pot chassy with the other, then listen.
If your strings aren't connected to the ground, they should be, normally by a piece of wire that connects to the bridge from ground anywhere in the wiring harness.
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The strings are not grounded. There is no ground wire connecting to the bridge or tailpiece. That is how they came stock. There is no noise issue due to the large metal shield that screws down over the electronics cavity. No risk of getting shocked because the strings aren't grounded. You can see in the photo there is no ground wire going to the bridge.
I've been told grounding the strings isn't needed and doing so will increase the risk of shock.