Quote Originally Posted by fender3x View Post
That is also a great looking build, Grant!

With regard to the 50mm bridge conundrum, they are indeed difficult to find in an F-style bridge. I found exactly one:

https://www.stewmac.com/parts-and-ha...AaArolEALw_wcB

Seems like a lot of $$$. So cheapskate that I am, the way I'd be tempted to do it would be to get a set of pressed saddles...

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...and cut a small notch with a file where I want the spacing to be.

Meanwhile, the lazy part of me would remind the cheapskate that it sounds good and has a nice clean look just as it is and it ain't broke... ;-)
I looked at the "Golden Age" bridge a while ago when I was considering only top loaders - they were very hard to get at the time .... and to get something posted from the US will probably double the price in postage - so it'd end up costing way more than it's worth.... and if I needed to replace a saddle I'd be locked into that.

I would suspect that it'd be only a little more expensive to simply buy a TV Jones pickup.

....and I do like the white/gold combo of Grant's tele/cabronita.