If any one has been thru this please let me know.
All the early to modern Martin guitars were 2 and 3/16. All the Fender telecasters and stratocasters were 2 and 3/16. That is probably because those Martin-players were comfortable with that spacing at a time when the Gibsons had a skinny nut and a skinny string spacing.
Classical players were completely turned off when they wanted to switch to electric because their spacing is a whopping 2 and 1/4.
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Fender, themselves, offers Fender bridges with 2 and 3/16 spacing. I cannot use these bridges.
Schaller makes a tune o matic for which they brag "roller saddles." These saddles roll so one can adjust the spacing, Therefore you have to freeze them in place somehow because they do indeed roll as you tune, and that spoils the spacing again. They are not appropriate as rollers for vibrato bridges as other roller bridges are designed.
Since tune o matic bridge makers are apparently unwilling to offer the wider spacing, I have come up with two ideas for them.
It would be easy for tune o matic bridge makers to offer blank saddles so we could notch our own spacing. I find none.
Bridge makers do not need to make a wider bridge. They only need to make saddle pieces that have a wider spacing.
But HERE'S THE THING...they don't need to make 6 special saddles. THEY ONLY NEED TO MAKE THREE.
The high e and the low E saddle would be the same casting which when reversed would complete the 2 and 3/16 spacing. It is common that they are often reversed already.
The B saddle could reverse and become the A saddle, and the G saddle would reverse and become the D saddle. An extra could come with the set to accommodate one's preference of a wound G or a plain G.
I have approached and requested this from Tone-Pros, Graphteck and Schaller. They seem not interested.
Am I the only one who is looking for such a thing?
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