Cranklin Marshall
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2024
I really like the look and style. The bridge doesnt have the standard bridge mounting screw holes to match the guitar body, it has holes across the back so you need to drill new holes in your guitar regardless. So i mounted the bridge right over the string through holes. This requires routing the pickup cavity about 3/8" toward the bridge. Then had to buy some M3x25mm screws to get my saddles back towards the pickup for proper intonation. These delivered saddle screws are like m3x15mm. I guess I could have mounted it over the pickup hole but I wouldn't have use of the through body string holes and not sure if it gives enough length for proper intonation. A long screw can make your string shorter but you can't make a ahort string longer. There are string holes on the back of the bridge plate. Plan for a week of farting around, and a keg of beer, you may be waiting for extra parts.
Buzz Taylor
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2024
Made of pot metal save your money
Chris Sorenson
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2024
Looks nice, but unfortunately the holes (for the potentiometers and the pickup) were improperly sized for standard parts and needed to be drilled/Dremeled to accommodate Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups and standard pots. In addition, the mounting screw holes for the control plate were just far enough off to require redrilling. Probably wouldn't order these pieces again.
Mcbicycle
Reviewed in Canada on April 10, 2023
Nice product, reasonable quality but my saddle plate was twisted and required some straightening before use
Bob
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2022
I have worked on guitars for years so this wasnt a big deal for me but normal people stay away from this id say 9 outta 10 people will be sending it back!Soon as I got this and was gonna instantly send it back, the bridge piece was colored lighter and control plate was darker. It had some spots on edge trim that were darker and light like it didnt get painted right so i ended up using.A piece of 0000 steel wool on whole control piece and it cleaned up and matched great after using steel wool on both pieces to make them match.Mainly on control piece since it was darker. But the steel wool took the excess paint off the edges so it matched and took dark off control aka knob piece and made the pair match color since bridge was lighter color blk.Its not a drop in replacement for sure lmao took me 3+ hours and ive modded over 70+ guitars! I had to trim pickguard with dremel perfectly after marking out lines with blue tape, fill old mounting holes in body and drill new ones for bridge plate. control plate also didnt fit without dremel the pickguard where it goes in round top and had to fill a holes on guitar to mount control plate.also had to dremel out the pickup cavity to get pickup to fit since its at a different angle than any stock tele ever made, took 20 min of sanding dremel to do that. makes the bridge a tad closer to neck so its a little bassier sound than stock length but cant really tell difference in tone...Making the scale length matching up so intonation was not far off is what took forever. If I charged someone for this upgrade on china brand tele like i did it on id charge 150.00 it took me 4 hours strait with dremels and measuring 10X in all to complete the change for good intonation. it was a real nightmare for any tech and im fast!!!If your a good wood worker or guitar tech you can pull this off in 3-4 hr but if not stay far away!
Chris Powers
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2022
They look awesome but however on the bridge, the bolt holes do not line up and the pickup hole isn’t positioned to fit the body. You would have to drill all mounting holes and pickup cavity.The switch plate was ok though