****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
I bought these to replace a stripped saddle on a 'mint' guitar I bought on reverb. In order to keep the look consistent. I elected to replace all of the saddles instead of just the stripped one. I then disappeared down the rabbit hole trying understand the number cast into the bottom of each saddle. I had saddles numbered 2 through 6 with two #4s. No matter how I arranged the sequence I couldn't find a radius that looked right. After some research I learned that FR saddles typically come in three heights: low middle and high. If any meaningful numbers are there at all, they're typically 0, 1 and 2 respectively. With this newfound knowledge I got to work with a caliper and discovered I indeed had saddles measuring three heights: 8.8mm, 9.4mm and 9.7mm. The numbers on the bottom are totally meaningless, 5 is shorter than 4 but 6 is taller. 2 and 3 are identical. I could have saved myself a bunch of restringing and tuning if I had just measured them (or just looked closely) and arranged them low-middle-high-high-middle-low and ignored those stupid numbers. Now my action is low and fast and the buzz and fretting out on certain strings is gone. Was really irritated at first, much happier now. Would buy again.
