Electric Guitar: Protruding saddle's allen screws

[Plaid]

Hello fellow guitarists and techs,
I have recently gotten a strat copy with vintage-style bridge. I tried lowering the saddles height and naturally the saddle allen screw protrude very highly above the saddles. (I play very low action)

Just wondering does anyone of you do any trimming to the protruding allen screws? cut, file or something like that?
I tried cut, but they are just too hard for my cutter. Please advise, thanks

 

[gsonique]

neck tilt :wink:

 

[thor666]

Just buy a file and file the bottom of the screws.

It's irreversible btw.

 

[Plaid]

Thor, thanks. Where can i buy a file?

 

[edder]

File = Hardware

Where to get a file?












































































Hardwareshop lah!!!!!!!

 

[Plaid]

haha... i thought u gonna say get file from bookshop. anyway thanks guys!

 

[gsonique]

:smt011

 

[jeremyrozario]

i tried the neck tilt method, and it actually does work, but it scrwed up the relief a bit and had to adjust the rod, but then of of mi allen screws threaded, den has to remove the shim to go back to the old angle

for an example of a tilted neck, check out the squier california series bullet strats

 

[gsonique]

neck adjustment is tricky but when you get the hang of it ...who da king of the hill 8)

if the neck tweak freaks ya...just replace all long allan scrubs with required length ... saves time sawing those tiny scrubs...hassle if ya ask me !@!

 

[sepultura]

On most fenders the saddles are crap and rust quickly. I replaced them with graphtec ferraglides, and that's bettered the sustain too. There are many replacement saddles for Fenders which are better shaped and don't poke your hands. You can get them at the shops around peninsula.

Fenders are nice but the saddles and pickups have to go

 

[edder]

you may wanna check this out. very cheap for Stainless steel saddles.

http://store.guitarfetish.com/upststsafitr.html

 

[jeremyrozario]

they dont ship to singapore, apparently they got cheated by somebody here, and they absolutely refused to give chance

 

[eugen3]

omg what a waste... they sell really great stuff as from their website.

 

[edder]

they dont ship to singapore, apparently they got cheated by somebody here, and they absolutely refused to give chance

i ordered twice (once last week and another just an hour ago) and have no problems whatsoever with the order.

 

[empty71]

gsonique is right!!!! Tilt the neck and you'll be fine. Don't mess with the screws!!!

It's highly probably that your neck pitch is slightly off. Get a business card and cut out about 1/3 of the length of the card and place in deep inside the neck pocket. That should do the trick and you may have to raise the saddles to compensate for the lower action.

 

[subversion]

neck-tilt adjustments are for relief-related anomalies, not bridge saddle action rectification. however, if this procedure works then it's the answer.

i filed down my bridge saddle screws BUT make sure you file down the UNDERSIDE of the screw, not the top where you insert the allen wrench for adjustments...

a less cumbersome procedure is to swap those saddles with graphtech units.