Nashville bridge

[psy]

Other than slightly more room for intonation do the nashville TOM effect the feel or tone of the guitar in any way?  I'm thinking about trying on to see if I can improve the intonation.  With being tuned done to B a couple of saddles are hard up against the edge.  The intonation is only the tiniest of bits off.  I only really notice it when I go up past the 15th on the lowest strings.

[Philly Q]

It might make a tiny difference because it has more mass than a vintage bridge, but you'll hardly notice it (IMO) if you use the existing posts to sit it on.

[Ratrod]

The most important thing IMO is that it is less prone to rattling than an ABR-1.

[Fourth Feline]

I had a 'Nasville' on my '76 S.G. - and It's extra mass did not affect sustain or feel enough for me to ever notice , on that guitar. As Ratrod said though, it was very 'solid' feeling - and a good plam rest.

The thing I wanted to sign in and mention ( forgive me if this sounds unintentionally patronising ) - is that when I had the same problem as you on another guitar - I noticed that I had the low 'E'  saddle  screwed back hard against the bridge. BUT I could get an extra few Millimeters of movement from putting the saddle(s) in backwards : that is to say that the lower mass of the saddle was against the back of it's recess, but the 'blade' on which the string sat, was facing the nut instead of the tailpiece. I removed and replaced ( reversed ) the bottom 3 saddles - and all was well.

Just a thought, which I though would be better being dismissed as irrelevent - rather thatn not being mentioned at all ..  :)

[Fourth Feline]

Hi again Psy,

I have just realised, that I still have a 'spare' (chrome )  Nashville bridge and mounting posts in the house;  and so if you need to experiment ( as these bridges seem to cost a lot of £££ these days ) - then I can post it to you to try - and return 'on trust' as it were.

[psy]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies guys.  Good point you make about reversing the saddles on the lower strings fourth feline.  I've already got them like that.  It's very kind of you to let my borrow your bridge to try out mate.  My guitar is an asian made BC Rich Mockingbird.  So it might not fit if yours is a US bridge (I think the difference is just post size).  If you think it'll fit I'll give you a shout in a couple of weeks because I just changed the strings on Friday because I've been recording this weekend & I don't fancy changing them again so soon :) (yeah, I'm a cheap skate)

[Fourth Feline]

I think you'd be right abought the fitting of the Nasville bridge being wrong ;   but the other possibility that came to mind was moving the intonation attributes for that string only at the nut end , by either :

Re-fill that nut slot with super glue and baking soda - and filing a sharper ( or at least different ) string angle(s) / point(s) of contact. ( cost = £ 2.00 for twenty attempts ! )

or

Asking Jonathan at Feline Guitars if an 'Earvana' nut might contribute towards a solution ?

 

 :)

[psy]

One step ahead of with the nut :)  I got a Earvana a couple of years ago from Jonathan.  That made a bit of an improvement, especially to chords lower down the neck around the 3rd or 4th fret.  I think I'll pick up one of these http://www.thomann.de/gb/tonepros_t3btc_tuneomatic.htm  at some point.