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Out of curiosity/necessity for a project, we started making stainless steel bent plate bridges with threaded saddles like pre-CBS Fenders. 4 string version has the pre-CBS specs, the 5 string version comes in three different spacings, pre-CBS (20mm), narrower 19.5mm and 19mm. All the saddles are the same 19mm but plates make the difference. 

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40 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

What difference to tone? 
I’m assuming you used tone-metals? 🙂↔️

It’s really hard to A/B these things, which I actually tried to do, I recorded a reack with both the original bridge and my own on a 65 Jazz Bass. The weight is identical by the way,  I started doing this as I could not find any bridge with pre-CBS spacing for a 5 string bass. Moollon’s bridge is 20mmmspaced but they won’t sell it anyways ;)

 

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I’m sorry if it sounded like I was dissing the craftsmanship; I was definitely not. it was just a joking allusion to the eternal “tone wood” vs “it’s just wood, get a grip” debate. 
so no major difference in tone ?
I’d settle for “looks nicer but harder to relic” in your shoes 

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7 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I’m sorry if it sounded like I was dissing the craftsmanship; I was definitely not. it was just a joking allusion to the eternal “tone wood” vs “it’s just wood, get a grip” debate. 
so no major difference in tone ?
I’d settle for “looks nicer but harder to relic” in your shoes 

Hey don’t worry I got your joke 🤓 No offense taken whatsoever 

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How was it, easy to bend? Or did you warm it before bending?

 

Stainless is somewhat kinky to machine, because it is, shall I say, chewy?

 

I like the colour of the end result very much.

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