Rewiring ventura hollowbody:best place for output jack wire?

[frank57]

This old ventura hollowbody had a pickup going dead all the time.
I took out all the pots and the wires were totally falling apart.
The wires were braided shield over some type of rubber.
Totally falling apart in your hands.
I replaced all the wires and the ground wire left two original but I want to replace those as well.

Everything is working and I wired it as in the diagram similar to what they did.
They had the shielded wires running around across the pots every which way for some reason,
so I decided that was just a waste of good wire and ran separate teflon wires around the top of the pots to ground the pots.
I'm using a vintage style shielded cloth braided wire like gibson which is a thousand times better than the crap they used.

They had the output jack wire soldered to the top of the neck volume.
Is that neccessary?

[G._Hoffman]

They had the output jack wire soldered to the top of the neck volume.
Is that neccessary?

Well, the output jack absolutely needs to be grounded, and the back of a pot is as good of a place as any.



Gabriel