{"id":1732,"date":"2018-01-19T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2018-01-19T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T21:25:50","slug":"saddle-adjustment-on-the-tele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Saddle Adjustment on the Tele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I described in my last post, the screws from the new Gotoh saddles are too long. A super nice guy from the tdpri.com ran into the same problem and offered to send me some of his extra screws. I just wanted to post a few pictures of the latest upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1733\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180117_110604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2733\" height=\"1611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180117_110604.jpg 2733w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180117_110604-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180117_110604-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180117_110604-1024x604.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>\u00a0I&#8217;m not crazy about flat head screws in general, but it&#8217;s not a problem in this capacity.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny that 5mm can make this much of a difference. If the saddle height was lower then this would be a non-issue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1737\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201321.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201321-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201321-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201321-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1738\" style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1738 size-full\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201246.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201246-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201246-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201246-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 out of 3 swapped out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1735\" style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1735 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201301.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201301-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201301-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_201301-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from behind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1736 size-full\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203903.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203903.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203903-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203903-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203903-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now the screws are no where close to hitting my palm while playing. These are now perfect.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1734\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203909.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203909-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203909-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180116_203909-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway I highly recommend these saddles. I got mine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewmac.com\/Hardware_and_Parts\/Bridges_and_Tailpieces\/Bridges_and_Tailpieces_for_Electric_Guitar\/Non-trem_Bridge_Parts\/Gotoh_In_Tune_Compensated_Saddles_For_Tele.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I described in my last post, the screws from the new Gotoh saddles are too long. A super nice guy from the tdpri.com ran into the same problem and offered to send me some of his extra screws. I just wanted to post a few pictures of the latest upgrade. \u00a0I&#8217;m not crazy about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/?p=1732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saddle Adjustment on the Tele&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62,87,18],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear-music","tag-gotoh","tag-tele","tag-warmoth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrguitar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}