About Shielding paint

[dooft11]

Dear all, i used to use Copper foil for the shielding in my project, but after seeing the clean and neat result of Mr. Nino's work, i ordered my first Shielding paint from Stewmac, a little question, when i use cop foil in the old day, i need to ground it and usually i will have a wire either branched off from the grounding wire underneath the bridge or just a seperate wire soldered to on the copper foil. but do i need to do the similar thing when i use paint?
or just lead all the g wire from the pot and the bridge to the jet and leaving the painted control cavity not connecting anything be Ok?
urgent
please help

[JimmyM]

Should be fine without grounding the actual paint.

[Lyle Caldwell]

No, the paint must be grounded to have any effect. When using paint, either screw a ground lug though the paint into the wood or, if in a bass with no pickguard, make sure the pots contact the paint where they pass through the top wood.

[JimmyM]

Well I was going to argue that I've shielded basses without having to do that, but then I remembered that the shielding I've done always touches the pots at some point, so I guess I can't. OK, I stand corrected.

[dooft11]

Thanks for the input, i hope the paint can do a better job than the foil, at least its dark flat finish is cool looking..haha

[Lyle Caldwell]

Copper actually does a better job, if the install is correct. But paint works well, too.

[PilbaraBass]

another good suggestion...I think...

apply a small patch (size of a US nickel...or an aussie 10cent piece) of the copper tape first...solder an earth wire to it...and then paint the copper as well as the cavity...this will give you a really good contact between the paint and earth (ground)

[dooft11]

the best of both world, thanks bro