Wiring question: Wire braided shield

[Ghostman]

I am rewiring my guitar and I have run into a question regarding shielded wire and running them through the guitar body.

I have two humbuckers, each single conductor with braided outer shield. They will run into the pickup selector cavity and wired to the three way switch. From there, the output of the 3-way switch will run via a single conductor with braided outer shield to the electronics cavity to the Volume and tone pots.

Will running the pickup wires and the return path all next to each other, where the braided shields are all touching, cause any issues? All the signal cables are isolated of course.

I cannot break out the humbucker wires (signal, ground) individually as they are potted together at the pickup, unlike what is shown below. I just drew the wires at the pickups that way for explanation sakes.

as shown:

 

[Elkoki]

I'm not completely sure, I would say no but i've been wrong. I have my pickups wired into the pots, so i've never really wondered about this. I think it should be ok though

 

[ARandall]

The shield is ground. You need a ground for the switch casing, and then attached to the back of the pots too. So it already is connected together.
The switch ground is often best done with a small length of cloth cable which is wrapped around all 3 switch wires and soldered.

 

[morbidalex666]

No problem with the braids touching eachother, unless one of them feels offended lol!

Really, no problems with the braids touching eachother, unless you play in an environment that is really "hostile" as far as hum, buzz and grounding goes.
These matters has been analyzed really well here:

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/tonefreaks/99325-guitar-grounding-common-misconceptions.html

 

[Ghostman]

After completing the new wiring, the answer is, no, it will not have issues.



Finished up wiring and it sounds awesome!