Sadowski True-Tone Bridge

[ravan]

I’m looking for a Sadowski true-tone Bridge for an unwound G string. Does anyone know where I might find one or does anyone have one for sale.

[Cunamara]

I think eBay is going to be your best bet. Or maybe you'll get lucky and someone here will have one in their parts box; I wouldn't be particularly surprised by that.

[MHeld]

I’m looking for a Sadowski true-tone Bridge for an unwound G string. Does anyone know where I might find one or does anyone have one for sale.

You might have luck with Walkin. They sold tons of Sadowsky guitars. And make bridges.

ブリッジ類/Bridge

[Woody Sound]

I don't understand why they are considered special. From what I can tell, they are just a compensated ebony saddle. I owned a Sadowsky with one.

[Cunamara]

Finding a properly compensated wood saddle is a challenge. One of the things is that bridge bases are often the problem. On my ES-175, the bass side post is farther away from the neck than the treble side post, which slants the bridge top in addition to the intonation that can be set with a TOM. Indeed, even with the TOM I would have to slant the bridge base in order to get enough range of adjustment from the low E to the high E to have all the strings properly in donated. All of my other archtops have the posts centered in the bridge base so that I do have to slant the whole bridge across the top of the guitar. I prefer to be able to keep the bridge base perpendicular to the center line of the guitar; if nothing else it just looks better but I believe it also improves the tone of the instrument.

The reason that I am mentioning this is that my Sadowski bridge top needs to be placed on a bridge base with offset posts in order to adequately compensate a standard gauge set of strings (11–50 or 12–52, in my case). Otherwise I have to slant the entire bridge.

I am always puzzled why guitar manufacturers seem to be averse to proper intonation. Classical guitars are almost never well intonated and sound out of tune, flat top guitars likewise and also archtop guitars. The original Fender Telecaster bridge, as well. It is irritating to listen to a poorly intonated guitar.