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 Post subject: CS - 250 saddles
PostPosted: Tue 31 Jan 2023 12:59 PM 
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Hi, my name is Jan Scholing and I bought a CS-25 Cardinal in a terrible state and put some elbow grease in it, to make it nice again. This guitar is fitted with a Ray Bridge, but the saddles are missing...
Can anybody help me on locating these?

Thanks in advance,

Jan


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 Post subject: Re: CS - 250 saddles
PostPosted: Wed 01 Feb 2023 11:39 AM 
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Welcome Jan!
The fact the saddles are missing might just be a blessing in disguise, they're notorious for breaking.
You'll need something like this to put it back together. https://www.aliexpress.com/i/3256803770 ... 4itemAdapt
Of course, they don't have to be brass but they do need to be offset.
These were just the first I found when searching and they actually look pretty good.

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 Post subject: Re: CS - 250 saddles
PostPosted: Wed 01 Feb 2023 03:07 PM 
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I agree with Jorg. The Ray Bridge saddles were the Achilles heel of that style bridge. If you do find the original saddles they are almost always in poor shape and wayyyy overpriced.

I've restored a handful of the CS and used the offset saddles as mentioned. You will likely have to replace the height set screws with taller ones as well as the saddles have to come up quite a ways compared to the original saddles. You might even find one saddle teetering on a single set screw thread. The first time I used the Strat saddles I was lucky to have a nut and bolt store nearby but have since found them online quite a few places.

Here are the updated links I posted in another thread about this issue some time back.

Saddles
https://www.amazon.com/Fender-American- ... ref=sr_1_1
https://www.stratcat.biz/099-0840-000.shtml


Set Screws
https://www.stratcat.biz/4-40-saddleheight.shtml
https://www.ebay.com/itm/111405811550


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PostPosted: Wed 01 Feb 2023 05:27 PM 
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Wow, I completely forgot about the height difference. . . :doh:

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