Who makes hardtail 3 saddle??

:lol: Don't know that i have ever seen anyone offering a three saddle Strat hardtail type (No pickup mounting hole) bridge. :twisted: For a reasonable price.

TeleSlim:rolleyes:

No.

However, for about $ 150 Glen Dale Clark should have one up and running pretty soon. Looking forward to that.


Bubbanov

You mean like this?
http://cgi.ebay.com/USA-Fender-GE-Smith-Telecaster-Tele-BRIDGE-Cut-Off-NR_W0QQitemZ200188747502QQihZ010QQcategoryZ41407QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://i8.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/cf/83/db09_1.JPG

You do! Make one yourself.

If you want the plate to be ashtray style, just cut one off:
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/552/medium/Picture_013.jpg

If you want it to be L-shaped, start with one that had the six intonation screws centered on the saddles, and drill your holes for the intonation screws in between each like this. The old intonation screw holes become usable as toploader holes. If you started with a short Strat plate, you're done. If you started with a Tele bridge plate, cut it off where you want and you're done.

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/549/medium/Picture_002.jpg

If you want it to be L-shaped, start with one that had the six intonation screws centered on the saddles, and drill your holes for the intonation screws in between each like this. The old intonation screw holes become usable as toploader holes. If you started with a short Strat plate, you're done. If you started with a Tele bridge plate, cut it off where you want and you're done.

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/549/medium/Picture_002.jpg

Just curious... wouldn't you have a terribly small breaking angle using that as a toploader?

Just curious... wouldn't you have a terribly small breaking angle using that as a toploader?

In part, it would depend on the setup/geometry of the neck, and how high the saddles needed to sit for your desired action as a result. I actually did have that one toploaded once, the strings rang true enough but I had a significant slipping of the 1st string due to the slick surface of those saddles.

But the holes aren't much different/higher than some holes made explicitly for toploading. The toploader holes in that sawed off one were rather high (and inconsistently positioned vertically and horizontally).

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/552/medium/Picture_012.jpg

I had it toploaded on the same Tele and the 1st string had a break angle so shallow it didn't ring solid, it had some sitaring.

It's a matter of what do you want in your setup. Some folks love toploaders because their shallow break angles allow for a looser feel, other hate them. I've come to like the feel myself, but I like the more reasonable angle I get on this bridge I drilled myself. I put the holes as low as I figured I could and not have the ball ends rubbing the finish. I have that bridge on another Tele now, toploaded and with Fender grooved steel saddles.

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/549/SqStd-toploader-vintage-bridge1.jpg

To bring the break angle issue into the perspective of the original question though...

One good thing about that particular sawed off one is that it was made as a toploader only, so you could drill holes in it for string through, at whatever position on the bridge you needed to for it to fit your guitar. You can find ones like that on ebay. And TDPRI member Darrell had some unplated ones made the same way, I bought a couple from him for projects.

Did the Strat w/3 saddles give you more tele twang?

http://www.glendaleguitars.com/trem%20blocks.htm

Sorry, $ 250, but it includes the whole shabang.

At least one of the guys at the Squier 51 Modders Forum has done a Squier Strat with a trem and 3 brass barrels ala a vintage Tele.

Tons of folks over there are now doing the 3 brass barrel mods to the stock bridgeplate of a Strat based Squier 51 hardtail. This mod was first done by Mike Levitt here at this forum in November, 2004. Very tele like.

Thanks for the quick response! I enquired with Callaham, they will do it for $110. After seeing this post, I will buy a cheap hardtail, drill a few holes, dig out a set of brass saddles and see if it does the trick! Then maybe spring for Da Bomb!