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Callaham Guitars

Callaham Tele Saddles, Enhanced Vintage Compensated, Stainless

Callaham Tele Saddles, Enhanced Vintage Compensated, Stainless

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  • Country of Manufacture: USA

When the Telecaster (Broadcaster) was first designed and built in 1950, the bridge system was crude at best. It served the purpose of positioning the strings, but allowed for only coarse intonation adjustment. Callaham's bridge saddles use superior materials and design that deliver a wider frequency response, increased sustain, and far superior intonation, so your guitar will play in tune!

It's extremely important that an instrument intonate correctly, and it's equally important that the strings don't touch the height adjustment screws, which can be a problem on Fender bridges and their copies. Callaham ensures that this won't be a problem with their saddles by using smaller-diameter set screws, and moving them out closer to the ends of the saddles. Additionally, they are the only manufacturer that buffs every saddle, by hand, to a high luster. This allows the string to rest on a perfectly smooth surface. They also install height-adjustment screws of the correct length, preventing the screws from protruding up above the saddles and causing discomfort to the picking hand.

Callaham's saddles are available in either brass or stainless steel. The brass has a warmer tone and the steel has more punch and sustain. Two methods of compensation (intonation adjustment) are available: original "slant" compensation, or "enhanced vintage" compensation. The enhanced vintage saddles were introduced for those who want to maintain a complete vintage look and have perfect intonation. They offer the same benefits of Callaham's original slant-compensated saddles, but with the 90˚ (right-angle) look of original '50s saddles.

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Pablo Hernan Toledo (phtkf)
Very Very Good

amazing soung and tunning.
The best Saddles for telecaster

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Mark Clayton (gitrman65)
Very Pleased!!!

Made me want to play my Suhr Classic T!!!!! Finally intonaton is easy!!!!

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Aaron Mason
Fantastic!

Easy to install and set up! Look sound and feel fantastic on my American Vintage II 63 Tele

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Robert Realy
The right medicine

The cure

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Richard Miller
Callaham Tele Saddles, Enhanced Vintage Compensated, Stainless

Callaham Tele Saddles, Enhanced Vintage Compensated, Stainless Steel are better than expected. I replaced my worn brass tele saddles. The brass saddles are just too soft on the strings and eventually make a groove in the saddles which turns into a buzz. Callaham saddles solved my buzz problem. I was suprised that Callaham stamps the string names on the bottom of the saddles "EA, DG, BE" so they are located correctly on the bridge. I also love the lower saddle height screws that don't rub on my hand when playing.

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