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You opinions on this, please...



It looks to me, like someone flipped the saddle height screw upside down on the left facing side of the saddle, and cut-off the head of the right facing saddle height screw and an additional saddle height screw from the saddle under the B and e strings (not shown).

...so I bought this

Did I waist my money or did I do right?

I most likely would have did the same thing... you know the whole 'bending the screws' to get intonation right will mess up the original equipment (I have nic'd up the barrels pretty good before).

Now you can set the intonation and not worry about really frying those originals

see how you get on, but you might be better off with compensated brass saddles, i have them on my duo-sonic (hurb fitted them when he owned it) and they're great. i'd highly recommend them.

stewart wrote:see how you get on, but you might be better off with compensated brass saddles, i have them on my duo-sonic (hurb fitted them when he owned it) and they're great. i'd highly recommend them.

Yup - I agree with stewart - while the Tele saddles you bought are "correct", and should fit / work just like the stock parts, the bridge of the Musicmaster / Duo Sonic is one of its weaker areas - and like a three saddle Telecaster, it can be improved with a simple set of $10 compensated brass saddles. They have them available in steel too, if you prefer that sound. You can also get them from WD Music (although they're out of stock on the brass ones) and several other vendors out there. I have them on my Duo Sonic and Tele, and they really do improve the intonation.

I havent used a set of those... do they work better than the screw bending method?