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Title: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on December 11, 2008, 06:52:59 PM: Can anyone here help??? I have a 1965 reverse thunderbird IV with nickel hardware. Have slots filed, maybe 1/32" deep. I am looking for a virgin set of 4 unnotched and unfiled, Nickel preferred but would take chrome. I know everyone here has spare parts. And for your information...I play my birds with a medium COOL pick and the strings NEVER ....NEVER, Ever slip off the smooth bridge saddles. I play metal by the way. Please help!! Thanks! Joe :sad:
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Basvarken on December 12, 2008, 02:19:31 AM: The saddles of the bridge that is installed on the BaCHbird are unfiled.

BaCH had them tooled in Korea. The first series the Koreans made were filed/notched. So BaCH disapproved and told them to try again without the notches.

Guess they had no other option than to put that first notched series online for sale as a separate item.
But maybe if you ask BaCH for an unfiled/unnotched bridge (like the ones on the BaCHbird) they can help you out.

They are chromed by the way.
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on December 12, 2008, 04:58:21 PM: Thanks but I don't know if those would work with my bridge. Do they have a website? I would prefer originals.
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on December 12, 2008, 05:00:12 PM: I just saw Bach's webpage and those saddles are notched. Thanks anyway! I would have thought that with so many people unsatisfies with the intonation problem would have scrapped their old bridges for a replacement.
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Basvarken on December 13, 2008, 12:26:01 AM: Like I said: the sadddles on the BaCHbird are not notched.

(http://www.bachmusik.com/system/media/products/TH%20DETT.jpg)

(http://www.bachmusik.com/system/media/products/TH%20BRIDGE.jpg)
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on December 13, 2008, 05:59:47 AM: Gotcha! I'll have to contact them. If they are the same dimensions with the threaded holes being inline with the originals, that will work.
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on January 02, 2009, 07:07:07 PM: A Very Big Thank you to Mr. Kevin Borden for coming through for me!!! Thanks again!!! And the saddles are nickel!!!!! Yay!!!!!
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: godofthunder on January 02, 2009, 09:36:30 PM: Quote from: Bionic-Joe on December 12, 2008, 05:00:12 PM
I just saw Bach's webpage and those saddles are notched. Thanks anyway! I would have thought that with so many people unsatisfies with the intonation problem would have scrapped their old bridges for a replacement.
looks to me like there is more travel to both the treble side and the bass side. If I were vindictive i would say i smell copy right infringement .
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Basvarken on January 03, 2009, 02:37:19 AM: Haha, yep you're right Scott ;)
Title: Re: PLEASE!!! I need 4 UNFILED UNOTCHED 60's Thunderbird bass bridge saddles!!!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on January 03, 2009, 11:16:50 AM: Hmmmmmm.....Yes, I see your point. The only bridges that kick ass to me are the originals and Scott's Badbird.