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Originally Posted by SteveY
If you like the way your guitar sounds, and it already has brass saddles, compensated brass saddles is probably a good thing to do. It improves intonation.
If your guitar has steel saddles and you like the sound, beware that a change to brass may reduce the highs a bit.
How much depends on body wood, fretboard material, etc. Might not be a bad thing, depending on other factors.
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Thank you.
It has the stock steel saddles of a Highway One. I quite like its neck pickup tone and sometimes think I'd like the bridge pickup tone to be toned down. It seems I have toned it down in a manner by using pure nickel round core strings and that has been fine.
I did notice that with my own work I cannot get its intonation as good as I can with my Stratorcaster (Am. Dlx. Ash). My guess is that's the 6 saddle advantage and why the luthier suggested the compensated ones.
I realize this is not a high end guitar, but I like it's neck more than many I've played - sort of a make it as good as possible, but not turn it into one of those cars with wheels worth more than the rest deals.
Thanks again.
WJL