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Telesavant, I can see your build is not bowing out. But I see on Yegbert's, there is some distortion of the metal there, on the left side wall.
My theory is that a played string vibrates all the way from end to end. We know of cases where we get extraneous noise from North of the nut (D and especially G strings) and I find we get noises, undesirable noises from South of the saddle break point (which is awful close to the bridge pickup). The sound of what I think is the saddle length spring vibrating against the unplucked part of the guitar string is unpleasant to me - as is what I think is the sound of loose saddle height screws where saddles are cocked or canted or leaning on one another.
The process of locking them all together (so well done on the G + L Saddle Lock top loader bridges) should alleviate the height screw problems and should keep saddles from resonating against one another - but it does not address IMO the issue of the string resonating against the intonation or saddle spring.
I'd like to devise a way to just ditch those springs - might solve a lot of residual issues.
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The other issue is adjustability, to be frank. When I swap parts around, and build and rebuild guitars I find myself setting the saddles higher and higher and higher. The set screw solution is only gonna work if that locking screw is mated with E string saddles that are darned low. I don't jack my saddles up into the stratosphere but there's more than a few of them where I would simply run out of adjustability. I'd have to keep the saddles low - and lower vis a vis one another to make the locking mechanism effective. Would not work well (I wouldn't imagine) on a 7.25 radius necked Telecaster. Cuz at some point the outboard hammer saddles are no longer holding the middle ones in place - they're trying to make them just pop out and fly up.
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