LaBella flats not suitable for Hipshot bridge?

[Dave TB Killer]

Hey, I might do that! I would be worried about how that might affect the tone of the A string though... Try and see I suppose.


I was raising a saddle on a Quan Badass bridge and one of the set screws came out the bottom of the saddle. It launched across the room and took some great effort to find it. I have noticed that some bridges are designed for low action and if the saddles are raised too high it causes stress to the intonation screw. I have two basses with Kickass bridges and one has an aluminum shim under it so the saddles don't sit up too high. I have two G&L tributes and one SBMM that have a shim between the top of the bridge plate and under the saddles. It's just something I do because i'm weird. LOL!
Yes, I might file the sharp edges. But lower saddle + shim is also not a bad idea. Can I ask why you shim your basses? What purpose does that serve?

 

[FunkHead]

Just hold a blow torch on the string at the saddle while tuning up.

 

[dae666]

Just hold a blow torch on the string at the saddle while tuning up.

And get sunburst pattern as a bonus!

 

[marchone]

I know I'm being simplistic but my fix about these issues was : thru body stringing makes no sense, don't do it.
So far it worked.

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[getBAK]

Not to single you out, I hear and read this frequently. It's confusing. To my sketchy knowledge roundwound bass strings did not exist until the mid-60s. So what flatwound strings were commonly used on Fender Precision split coil string-thru bridge basses from 1951 through 1956 when the new Precision top load bridge was introduced?

No offense taken, I can only speak for my own experiences.
I don't think much about what occurred with early bass models in the 1950's. Frankly, those were the pioneer times, and people likely didn't know that the strings separating was a problem.