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12-05-2011, 03:19 PM
| | | | Never seen one like this!
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Just bought this p bass special and it had this bridge on it. Can someone please explain how this thing can even work?  |
12-05-2011, 03:20 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Install strings, tune to pitch & go.
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12-05-2011, 03:21 PM
| | | | Lol, I feel like I would pull the strings right off the saddles. Is this a common problem with this type of bridge? |
12-05-2011, 03:29 PM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I'm confused- why would the strings pull off? The tension(of tuning them up)will hold them against the saddle, the grooves keep it from moving side-to-side.
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12-05-2011, 03:31 PM
| | | | I can't remember ever seeing bridge saddles that don't have a center detent. That is what I'm worried about because these saddles don't have one. |
12-05-2011, 03:33 PM
| | | | but they do- this design simply has grooves over the whole saddle, as opposed to one main one. but they do the same thing. Nothing to worry about-it's a normal, and fairly common (i thought) type of bridge.
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12-05-2011, 03:36 PM
| | | | Well I guess I'll have to give it a shot as soon as I find a neck for this body. |
12-05-2011, 06:56 PM
| | | | Those work very poorly. Replacing that with a proper bridge with correctly done saddles and string slots would be real improvement. That thing reminds me of the worse bridges fender ever used.
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12-05-2011, 07:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | That is the reissue bridge fender uses. It is a recreation of the original that fender used from 1959 to 1969. Countless famous recordings have been done with this style bridge. Its been used by all the best.
If its good enough for Jamerson and Jaco, it is certainly good enough for you and me.
I have this style bridge on every one of my 6 fender basses (Precision and Jazz alike) and have never had any issues with any of them.
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12-05-2011, 08:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by darkstorm Those work very poorly. Replacing that with a proper bridge with correctly done saddles and string slots would be real improvement. That thing reminds me of the worse bridges fender ever used. | ^Hmm. Seldom do I see a post that's 100% wrong on all counts, but I strongly disagree.
That's a very dependable and functional bridge that Fender has made for 40+ years. The threads let you locate the strings as needed.
Just install strings, intonate and play it.
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12-05-2011, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Canton, IL USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim ^Hmm. Seldom do I see a post that's 100% wrong on all counts, but I strongly disagree.
That's a very dependable and functional bridge that Fender has made for 40+ years. The threads let you locate the strings as needed.
Just install strings, intonate and play it. | This. Perfectly fine bridge. |
12-05-2011, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Smyrna, Tennessee. | | | In fact many feel this is the best bridge ever for bass as well as the six string version for Teles. |
12-05-2011, 08:59 PM
| | | | Well I can't wait to test this thing out then lol. |
12-05-2011, 10:13 PM
| | | | yeah, that post was wildly wrong. all-steel, and a great-sounding low-mass bridge.
the trick is to space your strings so that they line up right between each pair of magnets on the jazz pickup; this wider spread will cause the outer strings to push the saddles in against the inner ones, holding everything together to prevent any rattles.
it's a much better design than the later CBS-era version with one groove per saddle, which left them free to slide around and drift out of alignment.
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12-05-2011, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by finfrocka Lol, I feel like I would pull the strings right off the saddles. Is this a common problem with this type of bridge? | A few hundred thousand original Fender basses would prove otherwise...
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12-06-2011, 01:27 AM
| | | | Is it made in Scotland?
If it's not Scottish...it's crrrrrrap!!
Haggis is made in Scotland...I rest my case.
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12-06-2011, 11:19 AM
|  | <---Shinola Shite--^ | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitoba, Canada | | | Definitely the best type of saddle for a vintage style bridge. Better than grooves in the plate even. BTW, does anyone know if you can get them in brass anywhere? I have a black Wilkinson with single groove saddles on my Jazz and of course they are useless for string - pole alignment. I like the look of brass on the black rather than steel.
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12-06-2011, 01:08 PM
| | | | I'd think brass threaded-rod saddles would get quickly chewed up by the strings.
For folks who like the brass saddles, i'd like to see versions with no grooves at all, so you could just notch them yourself in the right place.
(current fender USA saddles are brass, but with fewer, wider grooves that won't get trashed. They're not bad, but I have a hard time getting the string spacing just where I like it.)
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12-06-2011, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | | Nothing moves over that end other than when you're putting strings on the bass. The strings are static so there's nothing to chew up the strings. |
12-06-2011, 01:17 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | I have one on my US Jazz but honestly, don't like it. I prefer the single notched saddles. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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