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I've only been noticing recently but the little allen screw holes on my american strat saddles are like sharp little barbed wires. It does not affect the strings or tone at all but its really been cutting my hand latley from rubbing up against them. Should i try to sand the edges down with sand paper? I don't know anything about different kinds of sand paper, i'm sort of guitar maintenence retarded. Any help would be appreciated!

Wear a fingerless leather glove when your playing that guitar.

Gavin wrote:Wear a fingerless leather glove when your playing that guitar.

Choose one:

hahahahaha

or,

you're an idiot.

JJ: take any file or sheet of sandpaper and knock down the rough edges...it'll work out.

Aug wrote:

Gavin wrote:Wear a fingerless leather glove when your playing that guitar.

Choose one:

hahahahaha

or,

you're an idiot.

JJ: take any file or sheet of sandpaper and knock down the rough edges...it'll work out.

or,

Pedaug doesn't do sarcasm.

I can't make jokes about Aug anymore because I'm scared I won't get my Mercury or it'll have a huge penis under the finish

euan wrote:I can't make jokes about Aug anymore because I'm scared I won't get my Mercury or it'll have a huge penis under the finish

Ahahaha, I can see it now. 30/40 years down the line and youve sold it on. The guy who buys it wanst a different finish. Strips it all down then....

WTF

hahahahahahahahahaha

All these responses are awful - replace the bridge with one with block saddles, you don't want to sand grub screws, that's a ridiculous suggestion. I changed my Telecaster Deluxe bridge from this:


to this for the same reason:

Mike its an American Strat, it already has the block saddles I believe

Then he's a pussy.

Also it's the holes themselves not the screws, I misread it too.

Just buy yourself some new saddles if it really is that bad. Or sand then down and see if it does. If doesn't buy new saddles.

If it IS the actual grubscrews:

If you're gonna file/sand it down, you'd have to be pretty careful not too go too far- take too much off the top, and the little "indentation" at the top of the screw is gonna be too shallow to use with the allen key.

You could put a shim in the neck so you can raise the saddles up till nothing is protruding? I'm gonna do it with my Strat, I've been spoilt by the Doogcaster's "nothin' poking out" setup and bridge.

Or, yeah- new saddles or new grub screws.