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No guitar will play right with flat top frets.
Have I misunderstood or are they actually flat across the top?
I'm not saying that's the whole problem but i cannot understand why they would have been levelled without being recrowned?
http://www.tdpri.com/threads/jerry-donahue-tuning-intonation-technique.197519/
try this too.
http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/jerry-donahue-on-telecaster-style-bridge-intonation
Maybe this will help.
also is the action high-ish or okay - a high-ish action is harder to intonate as you are effectively stretching and bending the string when you fret it - like a vertical bend
For example - my LP Special, in order to make the G string work - I have to tune it to a 'b' at the 4th fret. If I tune open, most chords sound out
Have you tried intonating on the 19th fret? i.e. play a natural harmonic above that fret, then play the note fretted. Tweak the intonation so these match. (I think it's the 19th anyway - "two-thirds" of the scale length.)
It's similar to intonating against harmonics at the twelfth, just on a different bit of the neck.
I wonder if there's something else going on in the high notes, like pull from the pickup or some damage to the B string? (As everyone else's already mentioned the bridge height etc.)