Wilkinson Série M 54mm (2-1/8 de polegada) Estilo Cinzeiro de Carvalho Ponte com 6 Selas de Barril de Latão para Violão Elétrico Telefone Estilo

It is a very well made telecaster bridge.

This product out of the box looks really good. Then you install it and discover that it does not work as intended. The strings will not line up with the saddles at all. Even while routing the screws through the guitar body or through the rear load. The black finish is really bad too, flakes right off with ease. The literally painted right over a chrome bridge. I have been using Wilkison parts for years, this is the first bad product I have ever received. The saddle screws are far to long for the bridge type. So, not only are you fighting poor alignment issues, now you are dealing with the screw touching the string in front of the saddles too.Just bad all the way around.

I've played Fender Telecaster guitars for 40 years. I have tried to use vavious 3 saddle bridges to keep the early Fender vibe. But the inability to it have the guitar decently in tune and intonated drove me crazy. I finally gave into buying a six saddle bridge. I was able to get each string intonated quickly and I no longer cringe at the tuning when I play above the 5th fret. I am going to upgrade all my Telecasters with this six saddle bridge.

This bridge is well made. When installing it, check the alignment. Make sure the center of the bridge lines up with the center line of the guitar and neck. It should be a drop-in replacement for most Tele bridges, but don't assume it is. I am plugging and re-drilling the holes for the screws. That's probably a problem with my particular guitar body.

The string through body holes on the bottom of the bridge are centered. The bolt holes for the saddles are aligned right over them. This is wrong. The groove in the saddles for the strings are offset because the strings run alongside those bolts. So for the strings to be centered, the bolts and saddles should be offset about 3/32". But they aren't. They are perfectly centered, throwing the strings off towards the bass side 3/32". The pictures show this bridge (with saddle bolts removed) vs a G&L ASAT bridge, which is properly offset. On this bridge, the strong though body and top-load holes should line up, but instead Willinson lined up the bolts with the string through body holes. Sending this one back...Update: Added a third picture of this bridge with its replacement, the "Musiclily Pro 54mm Telecaster Bridge Vintage 6 Barrel Saddles for Tele Style Electric Guitar, Chrome". Again, the bolts on this Musiclilly bridge are offset, allowing the string holes to be centered, and you can see the Wilkinson bridge centered the bolt holes instead.Last picture shows one of the black bolts and brass saddles from this bridge in the Musiclilly bridge (there's a white piece of paper under the saddles to protect from scratching during shipping). I may keep this bridge just for the bolts and saddles, since I like this look. Also off to the side is a bolt with both kinds of saddles, showing they are interchangeable, although they seem shifted a bit, which is why the brass saddle in the bridge goes off to the right a bit. I think if all 6 were the same, they would fit OK. So for double the (admittedly very cheap) price I get exactly the bridge I want. So for that, I'm increasing to 3 stars since this bridge proved useful in a way.