3 saddle mustang bridge?

George · Post by **George** » Sun May 27, 2012 8:35 pm

Looks pretty cool. Guess it's a custom bit of drilling. Like.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun May 27, 2012 10:01 pm

Cant see pic George.

h8mtv · Post by **h8mtv** » Mon May 28, 2012 1:34 am

Me either, plz remedy asap.

George · Post by **George** » Mon May 28, 2012 6:40 am

That was weird.

Check this link if it borks again

http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/2 ... pic-white/

Silenus · Post by **Silenus** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:33 am

Certainly looks cool
but I wonder how the playability will be

James · Post by **James** » Mon May 28, 2012 9:01 am

Fixed the pic.

I've never seen that before. It doesn't make any sense to me as the Mustang bridge is a good, comfortable design. Replacing it with a 3 saddle version doesn't add anything but takes away plenty.

Post by **Doog** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:55 am

Goodbyyyyyyyyye intonation!

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Mon May 28, 2012 11:01 am

^ That's what I was thinking.

I mean I like the 3 saddles. In theory.

George · Post by **George** » Mon May 28, 2012 11:10 am

Doog wrote:Goodbyyyyyyyyye intonation!

3 saddles are fine. My tele's strings all light green on a tu2.

Post by **Doog** » Mon May 28, 2012 11:15 am

If that was the case, all 6 saddle guitars, when properly intonated, would have their E&A, D&G and B&E strings at the same 3 positions.

No dice, my friend.

George · Post by **George** » Mon May 28, 2012 11:23 am

But they do light up green. I don't have intonation problems. I swear guv...

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon May 28, 2012 11:52 am

George wrote:But they do light up green. I don't have intonation problems. I swear guv...

All the way up the neck?

George · Post by **George** » Mon May 28, 2012 12:10 pm

Dave wrote:
George wrote:But they do light up green. I don't have intonation problems. I swear guv...
All the way up the neck?

At the twelfth fret as Per fender specs. It intonates in as much as main couplets sound good right up to the top (or to the point of usefulness) - thirds, fourths, fifths as well as octaves. If you guys need to intonate right up to the top fret then cool but for 99% of uses it's not necessary

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon May 28, 2012 1:50 pm

Doog wrote:Goodbyyyyyyyyye intonation!

I spent 15 minutes last night improving the intonation on the Swinger's 3-saddle bridge using the old skew technique. The lower 2 strings are now spot on at 12th fret, top 2 pretty good, middle two are a bit of a compromise.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon May 28, 2012 1:57 pm

I dont really see the hardship with marginally iffy intonation, i have two three saddle Teles, gigged and recorded with them. No one ever pointed out a flat note on the B string around the 16th fret or anything. Half the artists i admire cant even tune up right never mind own intonated guitars.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Mon May 28, 2012 2:54 pm

My Dano doesn't intonate perfectly. But that doesn't spoil my enjoyment of it at all. If my Batwing didn't intonate properly then I'd be annoyed. Different things work for different guitars for different people.

All that being said, I fucking hate three saddle bridges. They're an unnessecary hark back to the age of guitar manufacturers re-shaping existing industrial tech or trying to desperately save money on labour intensive tasks. Any worse than a Dano bridge? No. But then again, Danelectro don't stick wooden-saddle bridges on Â£1500 models and sell them as deluxe models or something.

Sticking three saddles onto a Mustang is monumentally dumb.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon May 28, 2012 5:34 pm

Fran wrote:I dont really see the hardship with marginally iffy intonation, i have two three saddle Teles, gigged and recorded with them. No one ever pointed out a flat note on the B string around the 16th fret or anything. Half the artists i admire cant even tune up right never mind own intonated guitars.

this. who cares. it's good enough for rock and roll.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon May 28, 2012 5:58 pm

Mages wrote:
Fran wrote:I dont really see the hardship with marginally iffy intonation, i have two three saddle Teles, gigged and recorded with them. No one ever pointed out a flat note on the B string around the 16th fret or anything. Half the artists i admire cant even tune up right never mind own intonated guitars.
this. who cares. it's good enough for rock and roll.

My recording mentor and teacher Jeff Forehan (drummer, ex-sound design/keyboard tech for two Prince albums and the lovesexy tour) once described marginally iffy guitar intonation as "sliiiightly outta tune...but not BAD outta tune... like, Rolling Stones outta tune."

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Mon May 28, 2012 7:51 pm

Yeah I have slight intonation issues with my musicmaster. Still play her everyday though.

Less noticeable with break up/crunch/fuzz I think.