No adjustment room left for Intonation

You can even take the springs off completely. Give it a try and see if you get enough room for proper adjustment then.

If that gives you more room than you need then you could consider cutting the springs and putting them back in but with strings on the bass the springs really serve no function and only become useful when there are no strings on.

The only purpose the springs serve is to prevent the bridge pieces from moving around when the strings are off, assuring they're in the proper position when re-strung. That's why most expensive bridges don't even have them; they're designed so as not to allow movement with the strings off.

 

im having this same problem. ive run out of room to move the saddle, but the intonation si still sharp

there seems to be no change whatsoever where i put the saddle

 

That's an expensive bass, right? I wouldn't cut the springs . . . either take them off or get some new ones and save the originals.

 

If you already have the saddle backed up as far as it will go after removing the spring, try tuning the string just a bit flat so that the 5th and 7th frets tune true.

 

You may need a neck adjustment. If the neck is off it will through everything else out of whack. When the neck is ajusted properly, everything else falls into place.

 

Switch to a taper core set, then it will intonate correctly with the saddles quite a bit farther forward. Try dean markley SR2000s.

 

Totally not scientific explainable, but it still works from time to time.

If you're at the max and you can't adjust any more: try to screw it back to the other max, tune up, tune down and intonate again. Sometimes this gives just that little bit of room you need to get the note an A and not a sharp A

 

+1

 

quite a good point....the proper combination of relief and back angle on the neck will help tremendously with both intonation and action adjustments.

 

If you havent already you might want to push down on the strings over the saddle. I've heard people call it "breaking the string over the saddle." You'd be surprised how much this helps.

 

this may be stupid but... in my case... i thought i was doing it right but wasnt and was going the wrong way. duh

so try that... lol

 

I had the same problem. I just moved the bridge back 1/8".

 

Yup.