One piece Tele and offset bridges

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https://www.thornguitars.com/products

What do we think?

SlopeSoarer

Well it looks wrong, wrong, wrong!

pt22

I could see the 1-piece compensated saddle working on certain non-fender tele variants. 

thermionic

People who dislike 6-saddle Teles because they need the pressure of two strings on a saddle will be <checks notes> three times happier.

BillDL

I think the Tele ones look really smart, but I'm biased because back in 2001 I asked the CNC operator at the engineering shop I was working in to programme the machine from my drawing and mill me a very similar one piece saddle from a bar of aluminium bronze.  It sustained extremely well and intonated perfectly.  I should have taken it off and kept it when I passed on the guitar because, although I still have the drawing somewhere, I no longer work in an engineering workshop and it would cost me more to get another one made than to pay for one of those on the linked website.

DrBob

There’s a recent Tim Pierce video where he features a similar but even uglier single piece Tele bridge on a Shabat Tele that he’s just got 

lovestrat74

I like it, but then I like Tele variants in general.

pluckbuddy

Looks nice but why not take it too it's logical conclusion which is a solid one-piece brass saddle, bridge, guitar, string, cable, amp, hands, stage and tour bus? Think of the sustain you'd get then.

earwighoney

I like the look of those, but they seem to create more problems than they aim to solve.  Things like open tunings, wound string for the G.

Philly_Q

I'm sure they're very well made but I don't like the look of the Tele bridge.  The offset one looks pretty cool.

Sporky

I like that they've managed to make something that looks and performs worse than the standard approach.

stickyfiddle

It's an interesting thought experiment but I can't imagine how it would be - you know - better...? 

rossi

pluckbuddy said:

Looks nice but why not take it too it's logical conclusion which is a solid one-piece brass saddle, bridge, guitar, string, cable, amp, hands, stage and tour bus? Think of the sustain you'd get then.

.you left out the strap

fretfinder

Fugly!

strtdv

I'd imagine this design creates a lot of overtones, which may or may not be desirable. A some of the aftermarket Tele saddle manufacturers eg Callaham puta lot of emphasis on the fact that the individual saddles shouldn't touch each other on a 3 saddle bridge, whereas this is the opposite philosophy. 

I can see it working for slide guitar perhaps

guitargeek62

I like it, and a one-piece saddle is inherently no worse than a one-piece wraparound bridge


*edit* assumptions on being well-designed and implemented, which with Thorn it really will be

GoFish

The offset one looks quite nice.

I like the tele one as for once I can crow about my tele being more adjustable than something.

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guitargeek62 said:

I like it, and a one-piece saddle is inherently no worse than a one-piece wraparound bridge


*edit* assumptions on being well-designed and implemented, which with Thorn it really will be

Plenty of folk sing the praises of bar bridges on Gretsches and these off a similar thing while also offering some adjustability.