Originally Posted by: Silimtao(Kevin, you know if you can get fried by your guitar or cable if they are not grounded properly?), but I saw a ground wire in there (and in my guitar), so I figure there must be a reason to have it.

that's fer sure...it's only happened twice but that was enough.
... touched the grounding switch once on the back of a Fender Twin amp while playing live & thought I was gonna die, but had to stand there and pretend like nothing happened.
Another time I was using an ungrounded mic and bare feet on a concrete floor and just about fried my lips off.

I've been more careful about cables ever since a Luxman representative showed me what a simple speaker cable can do. He unhooked one speaker and attached the positive and negative leads to a pencil lead and turned the volume to full. Within 10 seconds the lead was glowing red hot.
(definitely not recommended btw. Luxman amps are stable enough to handle a load like that...if ya try it on a cheap amp you'll probably fry it)