Tele bridges: 6-saddles vs 3-compensated?

[Securb]

Yeah, there are enough great Tele players who use modern bridges. At this point, you can't tie 'the Tele sound' to the bridge alone.

Here is one great one

[esandes]

I'm not a fan of the vintage tele bridge, the bent steel strat saddles and the original jazzmaster bridge. When strumming or attacking hard the string moves around on the saddle.

[ehdwuld]

Callaham is saying that their 3-saddle units intonate perfectly.

Would you expect them to say different

[jeremy]

the callaham does intonate very well, close enough for me to use live a ton

[St_Genesius]

Oh gods, the og Jazzmaster bridge is the worst.

I'm not a fan of the vintage tele bridge, the bent steel strat saddles and the original jazzmaster bridge. When strumming or attacking hard the string moves around on the saddle.

[alex1fly]

Thought I would share this. I met up with my old guitar teacher this week and he tossed me several Tele parts to play with - vintage done knobs, wiring kit, electrosocket jack and a 60s reissue 3 saddle bridge w\ steel saddles. Obviously didn't wait long to install the bridge and there's certainly some differences with the 3 saddle bridge. First the bridge plate is about half the thickness as the newer MIM\MIA Standard 6 saddle bridges and much lighter. I haven't put it through it's paces but the tone is lighter and airier. With the 6 saddle bridge I was changing my picking technique and went to a thinner pick to get the twang out - with the 3 saddle, the twang is omnipresent. Acoustically there is more top end and less mids with the 3 saddle. And the plate on the 3 saddle is much coarser than the smooth 6 saddle plate - quite a few bumps and ridges.

Here's photos of the axe with the two bridges on. If I had more Tele experience I'd say the 3 saddle sounds more like the Teles I hear on recordings, and the 6 saddle gives a beefier sound.