My Studio's bridge is ass backwards..should I care??

[Hfan]

Found this 2000 Studio a few months ago on CL. Love it, got a good deal etc etc. Funny thing is it came with a reversed TOM bridge. The screws face the neck like an ABR. The saddles are also reversed..the sloped side face away from the tail. I actually tried to reverse it once but the spacing and everything is off. It has perfect spacing as is.

It's a Schaller so I assume it's the original one. Should I even care? Anything to be gained by getting a new bridge and notching it? It sounds great as is. I wonder if it came from Hamer like that.

[gtone]

No biggy IMO - I've seen plenty of ABR and Nashville style TOM bridges both ways. Wouldn't put too much into it unless you're a purist or it otherwise bothers you.

[atquinn]

As long as it plays and sounds good, don't worry about it.

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Austin

[murkat]

pet the sweaty things, don't sweat the petty things.

[G Man]

Feynman, murkat says it best.

[SSII x 2]

The reversed saddles are no big thing. Lots of guys have to

flip them to get the low 'E' to intonate...

From the pic, looks like your intonation has some room for adjustment,

so if the guitar plays in tune as is, Bob's your uncle...

Seriously nice-looking guitar you have there, BTW!

[Hfan]

Thanks guys..it was my intention to leave it but lately I've been looking at it and crazy thoughts of buying a new one (spend money bad thing), then notching it myself (amateur..20% chance of an "oh shit!" bad thing). Since getting it I noticed the two E strings were rubbing a just a little little on the edge of the bridge, the tail is floored. Usually I would raise the tail a little but this time I filed a little under them. Intonation is fine.

And I had forgotten about reversing the saddles when intonation room runs out and I have even done it myself in the past on other guitars duhh.

So I'll be leaving it. Thanks for the comments and yes it is a great guitar, love the Aztec Gold, R9 like top and the price I paid..it sat on the Pittsburgh CL at $1,200 for a month. I even did a PSA. I'm near the Jersey coast, but the guy had a meeting about half way and we met..five hour road trip and well worth it. I love the stock 59's too. Put in some Marshallheads and pulled them right out and sold them.

Thanks again for the advice guys..and Murkat..may I use that phrase? Not copywrited I assume? Pet the sweaty things indeed ..

[tbonesullivan]

I would just leave it, as it's obviously been set up in that directly. Those bridges properly come without string slots ground, so when it was done, it must have been facing the opposite direction from normal. As long as it was set up correctly, as it seems to be, it doesn't really matter which direction the saddles face. on an ABR-1 half the saddles face the opposite direction anyway.

[velorush]

Thanks again for the advice guys..and Murkat..may I use that phrase? Not copywrited I assume? Pet the sweaty things indeed ..

It used to be on a T-shirt when I was a kid (certainly not mine, as mom wouldn't have approved)... Back then you went into a T-shirt shop, pointed to artwork displayed on the wall and they ironed the transfer onto your T-shirt. Sears even had a setup like that.

Favorites included "I'm with Stupid (with the requisite white-gloved finger pointing to one side or the other)"

and "Keep on Truckin'"

I definitely remember the Murkat quote as it was quite scandalous when I realized what it was talking about.