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Here’s a photo of the situation.
I may have misread what you say above, but you should be checking the harmonic at the 12th vs the string fretted at the 12th
As guitarmangler said, just be careful to unlock the cap screws before you try to move the saddles or you can snap them off, either the heads of the bolts or (much worse) the posts they screw into - the ‘wedge action' force is huge.
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I was going by ear, and adjusting to make the pitch drop. I feel quite stupid.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
If the fretted note is Flat=Left (move saddle left, towards nut in sitting position)
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Sharp = Right
Ideally get a tuner and use these Feiten offsets.
Open note & fretted
E + 00 E + 00
B + 01 B + 00
G - 02 G + 01
D - 02 D + 01
A - 02 A + 00
E - 02 E + 00
Do you use those offsets for setting intonation?
That will just confuse things and make the guitar play out of tune in some keys.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I've been asked to set up a couple of Feiten guitars and in my opinion they do not sound properly in tune - unlike with just moving the nut forward which is the key (and of course not patentable by itself) part, which is actually correct and addresses the problem of the nut restricting string vibration slightly. Tuning normally with a 'Feiten' nut position does work well.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I tune the D to -2 per Feiten then reference the rest of the strings to it by ear: tune the G to the D either with a G fretted at D's 5th fret or play a fretted 5th interval. Then I fret D on the B strings 3rd fret and reference to open D. Reference A by fretting the D string on the 7th fret and the low E by fretting D on the 2nd. On some guitars I use octaves at 3rth or 4yh position to get D & E better. Only string not referenced to D is the high E, I reference to the B string at the 5th fret or on some acoustics by tuning to an open or barre chord.