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

Cant see pic George.

Me either, plz remedy asap.

That was weird.

Check this link if it borks again

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

Certainly looks cool
but I wonder how the playability will be

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.

^ That's what I was thinking.

I mean I like the 3 saddles. In theory.

Doog wrote:Goodbyyyyyyyyye intonation!

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

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.

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

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

All the way up the neck?

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

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.

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.

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 £1500 models and sell them as deluxe models or something.

Sticking three saddles onto a Mustang is monumentally dumb.

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.

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."

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

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