Changing saddles vs changing whole bridge

skinfreak

I'm liking the idea of changing up the saddles on the inbound Indo Squier telecaster HH bridge. Brass maybe. But just for sanity sake, the saddles are the key thing but would there be a benefit in changing the whole bridge? Apparently it's been hardly played...

ICBM

Changing the whole bridge can sometimes be a problem - a lot of far-east instruments use slightly non-standard sizes which can mean plugging and re-drilling the screw holes in the body. There's no real advantage anyway, the stock bridge will be steel.

Check the saddle width before you order anything, they vary too. Either measure the E-E string spacing and divide by five, or the overall width of all six saddles and divide by six.

skinfreak

Thank you @ICBM !