I'm still chasing down the hum. I did the star ground off the volume pot's ground node, so this might be the problem. I'm going to move the ground point over to the inputs and use heavier gauge bus wire. I was using wire that was thinner than the in B+, except in the connection going to B-.

Hopefully all will be sorted out this evening. Now if I can just figure out how to tune in something other than WLW......Colin

Essentialy at one end the black and bare wire at arrached to ground and the red signal wire is to the siganl's path. At the other end everything is trimmed back except the red wire, which is hooked to the other end of the siganl's path.

I noticed on several connections that I had stretched the red wire's insulation enough that it was making contact with the foil shield. I just got in a hurry and used linesman's strippers to strip the black outer casing. The teeth cut a little too deep and caught the inner casings. I did not notice this until I started to examine my solder connections under an 8x loupe. I then checked for continuity between the siganl and ground and had full contact, damn....Colin