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davebelcher98 · July 9th, 2009, 12:07 PM

Ok...put some new compensated brass saddles on the tele (Allparts), and I love the sound! Here are some new pics.

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I have to say, though, the saddles were improperly compensated!! I bought these from a shop in Nashville passing through on the weekend of the 4th, but didn't install them till I got back home. When I opened the package, I realized there were two saddles angled in the direction that the middle position saddle should be angled with only one in the direction the low E/A and B/high E should take. Rotating them doesn't do a thing cause they're angled on both sides the same way...aargh. My adventures in bridgedom continue. So, I had to actually flip one of them over (you can see the little indentation on the top middle of the B/high E saddle in the pics). Works fine, but geez, is this common? That seems like a pretty big mistake for compensated saddles to have it all backwards!

I also shimmed the neck. I had to put just a bit of relief in the neck for fret outs, but now I'm still having buzz above the 8th fret...which probably means I need to straighten the neck and raise the saddles. But they're up pretty high already with the shim. Regardless, this thing plays and sounds much better now with the new saddles and a good angle from saddles to the neck with the shim.

July 9th, 2009, 12:07 PM	#59 (permalink)
davebelcher98 TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Ft. Wayne, IN Age: 29 Posts: 88	Compensated brass saddles Ok...put some new compensated brass saddles on the tele (Allparts), and I love the sound! Here are some new pics. 100_5065.jpg 100_5066.jpg I have to say, though, the saddles were improperly compensated!! I bought these from a shop in Nashville passing through on the weekend of the 4th, but didn't install them till I got back home. When I opened the package, I realized there were two saddles angled in the direction that the middle position saddle should be angled with only one in the direction the low E/A and B/high E should take. Rotating them doesn't do a thing cause they're angled on both sides the same way...aargh. My adventures in bridgedom continue. So, I had to actually flip one of them over (you can see the little indentation on the top middle of the B/high E saddle in the pics). Works fine, but geez, is this common? That seems like a pretty big mistake for compensated saddles to have it all backwards! I also shimmed the neck. I had to put just a bit of relief in the neck for fret outs, but now I'm still having buzz above the 8th fret...which probably means I need to straighten the neck and raise the saddles. But they're up pretty high already with the shim. Regardless, this thing plays and sounds much better now with the new saddles and a good angle from saddles to the neck with the shim.