After experimenting with a hi-mass bridge (I will not mention names), I am back to my trusty Fender Vintage with the threaded saddles.
Don't get no better than that!
Don't get no better than that!
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Hi-mass bridge? Bahhh humbug!
- Thread starter Rich McCoy
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Biggest crock of snake oil since...I don't really know. I wish they would just call them what they are: bridges whose saddles stay in place and are really heavy.
What do you like better about the stock fender one? Myself I think theyre among the worst bridges made. But thats just me.
After experimenting with a hi-mass bridge (I will not mention names), I am back to my trusty Fender Vintage with the threaded saddles.
Don't get no better than that!
So you tried one high mass bridge and didn't care for it? That doesn't necessarily mean they don't have their merits. Some are better than others IMO.
It's a simple and straightforward design that works in that they do exactly what they are supposed to do, and yes it is just you, (more or less) Fender bridges may not be the best, but they are hardly among the worst.
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Why? What do you prefer and what do you like about it over the Fender? I'm just curious.
Aren't the Fender MIA standard bridges "higher mass than usual"? What's the "science" of a high mass bridge, anyway?
Personally I think the stock Fender bridge works well. If ever, the only tweaks it needs is to have groves on the base plate to guide the saddles as it moves longitudinally as you set intonation (no side-to-side movements) and stock threaded saddles to adjust string spacing.
i don't mind the stock bridge on the g&ls, but i didn't really like high mass bridges on my jazz or p basses
Yep. Is just you.
if something works great, how can it be the worst? No the threaded saddle bridge is superb. It's the later, single slotted saddles that stink.
+1000!After experimenting with a hi-mass bridge (I will not mention names), I am back to my trusty Fender Vintage with the threaded saddles.
Don't get no better than that!
Decades ago, Guitar Player magazine, before it split off to Bass Player magazine, did a feature on bass bridges, back when brass was in vogue, and everyone thought weight equaled sustain. They tried everything available at the time. Before HipShot was a glimmer, and the whole idea of "aftermarket" was just starting to bloom. (God, I'm old!)
Surprise, surprise: the bridge that least colored the tone of the instrument, and had the best sustain with conventional Fender-style instruments (meaning bolt on neck to a 2-piece body), was the vintage Fender with threaded saddles.
There is nothing new in the world but the history a person doesn't know.
