Setting The Intonation On A Faber Bridge

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Intonating a guitar or bass can be a meticulous and time-consuming maintenance procedure, but the basic principles behind it are actually pretty simple.

When an instrument is properly intonated, all the open strings and every note on the fretboard sound at their correct pitches. If your guitar still sounds noticeably out of tune even after you’ve tuned the open strings, the intonation is off that is, the instrument is out of tune with itself. This effect is often slight rather than dramatic, but even slight intonation imbalances are noticeable enough to be annoying and demand adjustment.

After you’re done choosing your new Faber bridge for your guitar, you need to get started with the intonation. Faber guitar bridges being fully intonatable, the ABHR, ABRN, ABRM and Tone-Lock™ bridges intonation work almost similarly.

Step By Step Guide To Proper Intonation Of Your Faber Bridge

First, try to restring your guitar with the string gauge of your need.
In case the 12th fret is flat compared to the open string, move the saddle towards the nut and tighten the saddle adjustment screw at the bridge saddle. Slowly move the saddle towards the nut and once again the string pitch gets flat. Retune once after.

Note: When the guitar bridges saddle adjustment screw gets to the end of its seat, never force it to turn more than it freely does, which can lead to breaking the screw and damaging the saddle.

In case you have a normal Wraparound bridge, it’s not possible to set the intonation string by string basis. What you can do is, set the intonation across the overall bridge.

In case the 12th fret note is sharp, try to lengthen the string length. You can do that by tightening the “Allen key” screw and pushing the bridge away from the nut. Having only two adjustment points for Wraparound bridges, the intonation adjustment might not be similar on both E strings.

This applies if the intonation is flat on the 12th fret note. Then the guitar bridge will need to be moved closer to the nut by loosening the Allen key screws. With this, we come to almost the end of this article.

Faber does offer the Tone-Bar™ Compensated Wraparound bridge and the TPWC compensated “Lightning Bolt” style bridge making online guitar parts that you can replace on your own.

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