Unfortunately, not every bit of advice given on this forum is 100% correct, or works in all situations. With the amount of postings that happen, it's hard to keep track of what everybody is writing and make a correction - though those are also easy to miss if it's a few posts after the original.Originally Posted by Keith Walters
In some situations, especially if you have a bridge with a large amount of saddle travel available, setting them halfway can work and also allows for situation like Wazkelly found where by fitting a thicker string gauge to his bass, he had to adjust the G saddle very far forward, so that it was less than the nominal scale length. He had to replace the stock bridge with a longer Gotoh one to get the range of saddle adjustment needed. This was probably down to a quirk of the string construction, rather than a breakdown in the laws of physics, but shows that strange things can happen. Slight variations in string wrap tension or core wire diameter can make surprising differences even between the same gauge strings from the same manufacturer.
PBGs are starting a process of updating their build guides and making them fully inclusive, but it is going to take some time. So if you are unsure, keep asking the question until you are happy it's been answered correctly (hopefully with some reasoning behind it) and only then take action based on that answer - especially if it involves drilling holes and other actions that take a lot of fixing.
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