![]() Modern made in Asia guitars almost always have properly compensated saddles. Even Collings, Santa Cruz and Bourgoise blow the compensation on their handmade saddles at times. gibson has used properly compensated bridges on acoustic arch top ‘jazz’ guitars for many decades. These makers have never put a properly compensated d saddle on a guitar.even though. I throw saddles away out of Taylor’s, Gibson’s, Martins. I built the first corr3ctly compensated saddle for an acoustic that I ever saw almost 30 years ago. Imho, there is no reason not to use a properly compensated bridge.or a properly compensated saddle on an acoustic. This same result is to be found with the standard saddle that Martin and Gibson used for decades on their acoustics. but there are problems with the G.a Plain string will be a sharp and a wound string will be flat. The B will be a bit sharp, the D will be just a bit flat, and the A will be a bit sharp. with the bridge above mine can get the two E strings accurately intonation. The modern ‘lightning’ bridge is compensated for a plain G string. That compensation was good for a wound G string. That is why Gibson began using the first ‘lightning’ compensated bridge in the ‘60s. A non-compensated bridge of that sort cannot possibly intonate accurately.
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