Jerry Jones Longhorn Strings Etc.

[reimerbass]

Yeah, all my Danelectros have wood saddles. Intonation is just fine.

My Jerry Jones came (new) with a Fender-ish bridge.

I got a bridge plate like yours, without the saddles, and I had a slot cut in it for the screw to mount a wood saddle. The project it's for isn't done yet, so I'm calculating whether if I can figure out saddles like the bridge was meant to have.

So here are the finished saddles mounted on my probably one off prototype bridge plate I bought. Still need to find the proper hex bolts and small springs but it works just my other one. The plate is cool as it has the same screw pattern as the Jerry/Dano one where as the latter, final version moves the back screw up about 3/16”.

 

[mcgreivey]

Mine looks the same, but the three screw holes don't match Danelectro screw holes.

Mine came as unplated brass. My wife's cousin is in the plating business. I had him grind the surface smooth, then drill a screw slot in it (so I could use it with a wood saddle), then nickel-plate it. I might actually modify it more, because it was designed to need a trench in the body surface behind the bridge. Without that, the bridge has to be too high off the surface of the body, because of the way the ball-end holders work.

So I was thinking of grinding a trench across the back of the bridge, or drilling it somehow to hold the ball ends differently.

 

[mcgreivey]

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So here are the finished saddles mounted on my probably one off prototype bridge plate I bought. Still need to find the proper hex bolts and small springs but it works just my other one. The plate is cool as it has the same screw pattern as the Jerry/Dano one where as the latter, final version moves the back screw up about 3/16”.

I have usable pieces of metal lying around that I could conceivably make saddles out of, but I'm not sure I could still those screw holes reliably. I don't have any kind of drilling jig for drilling a hole safely in round metal. I do have some rectangular and half-round pieces I might have an easier time with.

(My late dad had a boat shop, and after he died, when I closed the shop up, I kept metal rod of various shapes, as if I'll ever have a use for them.)

 

[mcgreivey]

I can't edit the typo anymore.

"still those screw holes" was supposed to be "drill those screw holes"

Oh, well.