KTS Titanium Bridge on my Jazz, ehh wow?!

[Webtroll]

Weird indeed my friend.. I have no idea why.
I am now going home to drink some more snake oil and see if it tastes like sweet wine today too
WORSHIP SATAN!

Works fine for me /shrug

 

[BobXboB]

Stop picking on me you ¤"#¤"#. Hehe j/k
Plate and saddles I believe.
V

Thanks, and I'm glad to see you have a sense of humor.

 

[warnan]

i won a kts auction maybe it is yours, azzyrazzy.
I tested on my jazz bass and you could guess which is which.
In the coming audio samples i tested 5 different bridges on the same bass.
1. assembled jazz bass. delano jc4al, dd string. direct to pc.

in this audio clips u will hear 5different bridges:
hipshot A, gotoh 203b, kts, badassii, fender vintage.

tone difference is not big but noticeable.

finger
slap
sustain

 

[Bass4LifeRS]

Sold that bass long ago, always trying something new.

 

[Stefan Gut]

Hello, I have tried out KTS Titan Saddles on my fretless Jazz Bass for some months. And I was quite happy with it. They are made very nice an are worth the high price.
The difference in sound is not huge but i believe you can feel it a bit: titanium sounds more open and clean, steel has more pressure and definition in the lows and sounds a bit dirtier.
So I went back to steel. But this is a matter of taste.

 

[bassdude51]

This thread and posts are very old! Excuse me.

All I want to know is this..............how much lighter is the KTS Titanium 4 string bridge with the threaded saddles compared to the Fender threaded saddle bridge?

What's the weight savings?

I couldn't care less about the sonic "BS" of titanium! Weight savings info please!

 

[halvis]

Better late than never, no? Since you got no responses, and I knew where to put my hands on a KTS PR-03WB-1 I bought many years ago, I thought I would weigh it and respond. Just shy of 53 grams (1.86952 ounces) on my scales.

I bought it for an uber lite weight project bass that never got completed. (Mom was diagnosed with alzheimers) I probably have a fender 60's or 70's steel plate bridge somewhere, but most of my stuff is still in storage and I don't want to pull one off an assembled bass to weigh it. I'd banter a guess that its roughly 50 to 60% the weight of its stock steel counter part.

Edited to add that mine are the smooth 70's look saddles, not the threaded 60's look ones, but I doubt there is more than a grain of difference in weight.

 

[bassdude51]

Better late than never, no? Since you got no responses, and I knew where to put my hands on a KTS PR-03WB-1 I bought many years ago, I thought I would weigh it and respond. Just shy of 53 grams (1.86952 ounces) on my scales.

I bought it for an uber lite weight project bass that never got completed. (Mom was diagnosed with alzheimers) I probably have a fender 60's or 70's steel plate bridge somewhere, but most of my stuff is still in storage and I don't want to pull one off an assembled bass to weigh it. I'd banter a guess that its roughly 50 to 60% the weight of its stock steel counter part.

Edited to add that mine are the smooth 70's look saddles, not the threaded 60's look ones, but I doubt there is more than a grain of difference in weight.

Thank-you for this info! (Very sorry about your mother!) I'm also sorry for seeing your post so late in the game.

In trying to get the weight of my 7 lbs 3 oz P Bass down to at least 6 lbs 15.9 oz. Based on your wonderful and informative info, a KTS titanium bridge + saddles will knock off a whopping 1.2 oz off of my bass compared to the vintage bent plate.

Not worth it!

Also strange to me, KTS does not include 5 titanium mounting screws nor are the intonation and saddle height screws made of titanium.

I'm after weight lose on my bass with the tuners, neck plate and knobs made of alloy. Not much else I can do to shave off weight.

I'm not going to spend $144 to drop 1.2 oz.

Thank-you halvis for your help!