Better tone with un-notched saddles?

[bursty]

I don't have any opinion on the notched/no notch saddle issue but I did see JD and Greg Koch play some old Allman Brothers tunes here in St Paul a few years back and oh boy, was it amazingly sublime.

 

[Minibucker]

I would not trust that pre-notched saddles would work for a particular guitar any more than I would trust a pre-notched nut.
Heck...I always use a Stew-Mac notching rule, then eyeball the final spacing because I find it to be innacurate.
Honestly, I probably couldn't feel the difference of a couple thou' in either direction, but if my eye perceives it as off, it'll drive me nuts.

Yes, you're stuck with that spacing (unless you file down until they're gone and start again) and for the guitars I kept it on it was close enough thankfully. The notches work fine as far as keeping the string stable though. Unless you have a really shallow angle behind the bridge the string pressure kept things in fine even under hard strumming.

Actaully, on pretty much every Nashville-bridge-equipped Gibson USA I've had, the spacing has been pretty straight/centered on the saddles out of the factory. Maybe just lazy on their part or lucky on mine but it always felt fine, no slippage off the end of the fingerboard by either E's or premature fretting out, etc.

 

[lub]

Yes, you're stuck with that spacing (unless you file down until they're gone and start again) and for the guitars I kept it on it was close enough thankfully. The notches work fine as far as keeping the string stable though. Unless you have a really shallow angle behind the bridge the string pressure kept things in fine even under hard strumming.

Actaully, one pretty much every Nashville-bridge-equipped Gibson USA I've had the spacing has been pretty starlight/centered on eth saddles out of the factory. Maybe just lazy on their part or lucky on mine but it always felt fine, so slippage off the end of the fingerboard by either E's or premature fretting out, etc.

yeah Gibson USA has better string alignment than the reissues. maybe that's not 'vintage correct'

 

[Minibucker]

Ugh...my typing.

Am I remembering correctly that someone came out with saddles that had a wide v-notch in them? Like....

...of course, you'd be locked to that center-spacing too. Maybe I'm just imagining that. Never mind.