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It's hard to see what you did, but anything that increases the downward force on the saddle will increase the friction and 'sawing' action of the string through the saddle.... especially brass saddles. You should notice a groove being cut pretty quick in the brass, after which the string will start to get stuck in teh groove and you'll need to keep it lubricated.
Another side effect of pulling down the string behind the saddle is that it lengthens the distance that the string has to travel in order for it to be pulled up a whole step. It's due to some basic geomtery math...the string no longer forms a straight line as it goes over the saddle so to get the same pull across the saddle the bender has to mov emore... Some benders run out of adjustment tuning range if this happens. Did you notice this?
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