The bridge has arrived earlier this week.
The spacing was a bit too wide about 1mm to wide. Seemed to be about 73 mm not 72.
(I just used a measuring tape, which isn't that precise, but I've put a vernier calliper on my christmas wishlist).
I could press it with some moderate force to put it in place, but it was then too stuck then, I couldn't adjust the bridge height (by turning the posts) without taking the bridge off (also with force) and putting it in place again.
I filed a bit from one of the post holes in the bridge and made it slighly oval shaped. Now it isn't as stuck but still a bit tight. (I don't need to remove bridge to adjust the posts, but I need to loosen the strings and lift the bridge a bit).
The saddles were not slotted so I had to make slots.
I used the old bridge as a reference and noticed that the space between the saddle screws is bigger on the new bridge, so the slot does't end up in the center of each saddle.
I haven't yet had time to do fine adjustment of bridge heigt, intonation and truss rod (I trying to decide if I should string it with my prefered rock strings (regular nickel wound 10s) or my preferred jazz strings in it (flat wound 12s)), still has a lot of fret buzz issues I need to figure out, so I don't want to say anything about how much improvement this bridge is.
The quality of these photos aren't that good:
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The old bridge and posts on the left. In the right are the parts that arrived. The new posts fit perfectly in the screw holes in the guitar so I didn't need to fit the new screw holes (or what ever I should call that part) into the wood in the guitar.
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New bridge (above) before slotting and old brige below. You can see that the space between the saddles is a bit wider.
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