TV-Half-Bridge, Nickel - Aluminum, Compensated Tele® Bridge

TV-Half-Bridge / High Performance Compensated Tele®-Style Bridge

The TV-Bridge delivers true vintage tone, look, and feel while meeting modern standards of functionality and reliability. It noticeably improves intonation, overall tone, and tuning stability.

Uncoated TV-Rail aluminum saddles create a direct, uncompromised string-to-saddle interface for a clear, immediate voice. Precisely cut V-grooves accommodate all common gauges, giving each string a secure, consistent seat and efficient energy transfer into the bridge—and ultimately the guitar body. Prefer a wound G-string? Simply flip the middle saddle on its axis and you’re set.

To fine-tune your sound even further, every TV-Bridge includes additional saddles in brass and steel.

Sound characteristics of TV-Rail Saddles material

ALUMINUM provides an airy, piano-like sounding, very resonant tone. Ideal for your middle(D/G) position or the lower E/A strings. It is also great when it comes to clean sounds!

Compared to brass it:

• has a dry, but brighter tone with more bite
• decreases mids, increases heights
• increases string separation
• reacts faster and has lots of „twang“

STEEL provides a very focused „cutting through“ tone with lots of shimmering heights. The perfect material for the lower strings E and A.

Compared to brass it:

• has the brightest tone of the three
• emphases heights
• has a sharp and snappy attack
• increases string separation
• has twangier tone with more sparkling harmonics

BRASS provides an overall harmonic and well balanced tone. The perfect mach for your B/e strings but works fine overall.

• balanced, warm tone
• pleasant, rich harmonics
• softens treble strings by cutting shrillness
• can potentially cause dull sounding thicker E and A strings
• less „twang“ than aluminum or steel saddles

Performance

• unique compensated TV-Rail saddles for great intonation
• lasting tuning stability
• resonant base plate
• to be used as bottom and top loader
• highly variable radius possibilities from 7,25" to 20"

Materials and Finishes

• Bridge base plate: cold rolled steel - 1,15mm ( ³ /64"), Nickel plated
• Saddles, "TV-Rail": 3x Aluminum, bare / 1x Brass / 1x Steel
• Hight adjustment screws (saddles): Stainless Steel, rounded tip, 6-32 UNC
• Intonation screws: Brass, bare or with Ni- coating, 6-32 UNC
• Springs: 6 Pcs (3 x wide / 3 x narrow) – can be used coupled or separately

Facts and Figures

• Body size: 38 x 76,5 x 10mm (length x width x height)
• String spacing: 2-1/8" - 54mm (e - E) / 10,8mm
• Radius: adjustable from 7,25" up to 20"
• Mounting holes: Standard > outer hole distance: 64,8mm (2,55”), hole spacing: 21,6mm (0,85")
• Weight: 54g (equipped with 3x Aluminum saddles)

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