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HELP please tricky Fender bridge intonation.


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Help please, anybody know how to get the intonation done with one of these bridges? Thanks in eager anticipation,
Karl.
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Well it looks pretty much the same as an acoustic 6-string bridge.

[url="http://www.lutherie.net/saddle_angle.html"]http://www.lutherie.net/saddle_angle.html[/url]

What, if any, adjustments are available depend on the actual bridge construction. Is the white saddle piece fitted into a pre-cut groove, or can it be moved, held in position by string tension ? Does any part of the bridge move ?

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You may never get 'perfect' intonation. You should get reasonable with the string gauges the bass is specified with. If you have a string that is way out I would suspect a faulty string. I have spent ages trying to sort bad intonation until I found it was a duff string. Rare but it does happen.

Is this bass available, I have could add to my collection :) then again other half will divorce.

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[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1402443406' post='2473669']
Rather like that actually. Wonder if they do it left handed?
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Fender HMT, Fender Japan from about 1990 to 1993. There were 2 versions, the one I'm considering has a kinda Washburn hockey stick headstock.
Rare in right hand, don't even know if they did a leftie.

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The intonation would be factory set with a particular gauge of string and action - any variation from those parameters and things get difficult.

It is possible to make a compensated bridge, but it takes a lot of fiddling and you wouldn't want to do it more than once. :)

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