Tele Saddles, What's the difference?

[JumpMarine]

What is the difference between modern saddle, brass and brass compensated? As far as usefullness, tone, etc..

 

[kmcguitars]

IMHO you only get true Tele tone (Twang) w/t the brass saddles.
The Brass compensated saddles I believie was devolped by Danny Gatton's Guitar tech to solve the age old problem of intonating
the brass saddles.

 

[Hot _Grits]

Danny Gatton was his own guitar tech. He also used to do work for others in his local area. He bent his saddles by hand to intonate properly. There's a video of him discussing his guitar here (I think it's the last on the list):

http://www.dannygatton.com/av.html

Since then, Wilkinson have made a slightly more high tech version. One day soon I'm going to fit them to my tele. I 'll post up when I do...

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges...justable_Compensated_Vintage_Tele_Bridge.html

 

[Lewguitar]

I prefer 3 brass vintage style saddles on my Tele. Sounds richer and less rattley than steel, which is a harder material than brass.

Brass sounds less steely than steel.

Eric Johnson, BTW, uses a single brass saddle for just the high E string on his Strat...the other five saddles on his Strat are the usual steel. He uses brass on the high E string to fatten it up and so it doesn't rattle as much...so do I.

Lew

 

[Curly]

you know, after looking at the G &L ASAT Classics lately, it looks like they use 6 brass saddles. I like brass, but my 3 piece Barden bridge doesn't intonate as well as my AS tele.

 

[Dave]

You can get a mix of brass and/or steel saddles at Callaham guitars. Their products look pretty solid.

 

[Artie]

There's an interesting article written by Jerry Donahue in SD's Tech Tips section, on this very subject:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/support/techtips.shtml

 

[Bludave]

I have a Cal Tele. A Fender w/ strat tele (b) it has 6 barrels in stead of 3 and it plays and sounds great!!!. How does it compare to a vintage Tele...... It doesn't