[newtwanger]

A couple of weeks ago I put a Barden's bridge on my Esquire and though it's a beautiful piece and the saddles are great, I was having issues with the high E falling off the fretboard around the 12th fret.
Well I took it apart last night thinking I might have bolted the bridge down crooked or offset (I doubted that as I'm pretty anal about alignment).
I pulled out the micro calipers and started to measure the string through holes.
Fender holes 3.00mm Bardens 2.65mm (no big deal)
Fender E to E center on center 53.70
Bardens E to E center on center 55.11mm

Now while that doesn't seem like much (1.41mm), you can clearly see the high E being "redirected" outward from the hole drilled in the body, the Fender is a straight pull.
Maybe not a big deal for most necks but on a 1 5/8 wide neck with rolled fingerboard it's enough to make me pull out the saddles, put them on the Fender bridge and voila! My great guitar is great again (and the body holes line up exactly with the bridge holes).

Anyone else see stuff like this?