Why Upgrading Saddles Of Your Guitar Is Necessary?

Guitar saddles are one of the vital components of a guitar’s bridge. It acts as a spacer for the strings. The saddle also aids the transmission of string vibrations from the bridge to the soundboard or pickups. On acoustic guitars, saddles are usually made of plastic or bone and are glued into the bridge. With electric guitars, the saddles are typically metal and affixed to the bridge with screws. Saddles can also be adjusted on electric guitars to correct intonation problems or make small adjustments to the string action.

Why Should You Upgrade Your Saddle?

A guitar saddle is designed to transfer the vibrations through the bridge into the top wood of the guitar. This quick and simple upgrade will have an amazing effect on your instrument’s tone, harmonic content, and playability.

Compensated saddles improve playability by correctly setting each string’s intonation to help produce the best tone and performance possible.

Faber Guitar produces a wide range of fully compensated, partially compensated best Guitar parts and saddle blanks and slabs.

4. Sand saddle to height

Use your sandpaper to get the right height. When you get close to the line you have drawn, take two blocks and sand the piece to get a nice, straight, right angle on the bottom of the saddle.

This is important because you want more contact at the bottom of the bridge saddles with the bottom of the saddle slot. You can also use a straightedge to ensure it’s perfectly straight. Or try holding it up to the light to see if there’s any light that passes through.

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