vintage bridge

I just put money down on a new mim telecaster. My other tele is a squier standard. I got the mim for the maple neck and the ability to use a vintage bridge if I decided to. I see that a lot of people recommend the basic fender plate and whatever compensated saddles that one chooses. I have also seen non-compensated saddles as well. Are the compensated saddles the best choice? Would there be any reason not to go with compensated saddles? I will either be using 9-42 or 10-46 for strings. I don't want to start a modern vs vintage thing, I was hoping for a little vintage bridge education.

Thanks,

Steve

Compensated saddles are going to allow your Tele to play in tune up and down the neck, and if you're using a 3 saddle bridge they're really the way to go. You can get them relatively inexpensively (like $12 or so), or you can spend over $100.

You can get away without compensated saddles, but if your ear is good you'll notice that chords and double stops up the neck aren't quite in tune.

Actually, the non-compensated ones are simply a round bronze rod, 8mm diameter if I'm not mistaken. this mean the minimum high of the string at the bridge will be 8mm - too high in my opinion. If you would like to save some money, you can compensate them your-self. all you need is a file and draw some inspiration from this pics:

My Fender Pat. Pend. vintage bridge with saddles, screws, etc., came with the vintage 3 brass barrel saddles, but the bottoms of each saddle is ground flat... in other words these saddles are not completely round rods.... And they can go lower than a round rod. I think, that I would just buy the compensated saddles, with the three screws that fit , rather than try to file down a regular set.. They are cheap. I'm sticking with my vintage ones for now. Maybe I'll try a set of the compensated ones some day..