Hey! I've a Fender Strat MIM with the standard Fender saddles, but I was wondering if Graphite saddles make a difference of not? Are the worth £40/$50 to replace the ordinal ones? Will I actually hear a difference?
Thanks.
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Hey! I've a Fender Strat MIM with the standard Fender saddles, but I was wondering if Graphite saddles make a difference of not? Are the worth £40/$50 to replace the ordinal ones? Will I actually hear a difference?
Thanks.
Frankly, I never bothered.
I really don't think it will make a difference, but I am kind of a skeptical type who really believes in physics and that even the fretboard wood is irrelevant to tone, at least considering what human hearing can make out of it.
I'd stick to the original saddles and just give the guitar a proper set up.
I used to use them, and I really couldn't tell a difference in tone. I got them because I was breaking a lot of strings at the bridge. It helped a little with that, but the guitars I've had for the last 10 years have the stock saddles, and I've had very few string breaks. I'd leave it stock and get a tech to check it out if you're breaking strings. If it's just the tone difference, you won't hear an improvement.
They were nothing more than snake oil sold during the Tone Wars.
I found on my Jazzmaster, with the floating bridge & tremolo system, that the single-slot graphite saddles were the correct width (unlike Mustang saddles) and solved both the strings jumping to other slots on the bridge and the strings going out of tune when the bridge rocked. I imagine it would be the same with Jaguars.