We all know how hard is to adjust the damn thing, especially if you are a newbie on the gibson way of doing things. You can tilt the 2 big screws to get action to something acceptable, you can even do weird things like changing the order of saddles and tilting more the bridge (that helped me alittle bit) if you are desperate. But if you want REALLY low action, you must start filing the saddles. That could work if you adjust em for a type/thickness of strings, but if you start trying other strings, there could be fretbuzzynes again. Not cool. At all.
The following are my thoughts on solving this problem, my drawings are kinda crude, so feel free to ask if you don't get something. These are the measurements I took on a saddle, everything is on mm.
First thing I thought was cutting the upper part of the saddle and putting height adjusting screws between the upper and the lower part. I like that approach much at start, but then I thought that there's nothing except string pressure that holds that little upper piece where it suppose to be. In other words, break a string, lose the damn thing. Neeext!
Then I thought of stealing Leo, that is putting height adjusting screws thru the complete length of the saddle. I'm not so sure about that, because it removes alot of metal and creates weak points. Maybe with the use of good quality metal this wouldn't be a problem, but I'm not an engineer, so I can't tell for sure.
And then I thought about taking advantage of something else. Why not putting the height adjustm,ent screws to the "sides" of the saddles? This one seems more stable than no2, and also we can make the "sides" of the saddles just a little wider (0.5mm or maybe 1mm per side, I checked it, theres some room) to add some material there for strength. Check what I mean.
I am aware that the last 2 ideas maybe interfere with the angle of the intonation screw, especially if we start adjusting the saddle more to the back of the bridge (away from pickups). If we use a thinner intonation screw (Epiphone uses a 4mm one) that could be less of a problem.
Any thoughts?