Northwest Guitars

Classic String-Through Bridge for Hardtail Stratocaster

£19.99

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4.75

BN01F-CR

Colour: Chrome

Chrome Nickel Black Gold

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Colour: Chrome

Chrome Nickel Black Gold

Product details

Made from steel throughout, it serves great as a replacement part for your existing Strat guitar, or as part of a conversion or brand new hardtail guitar build.

Short Base Plate

One of the most common issues with changing a hardtail Strat bridge is that the vast majority of replacement bridges feature a longer base plate, which thanks to the pickguard design of a Strat prevents proper alignment with the string-thru holes.

Thankfully the BN01F hardtail bridge is designed specifically to solve this problem! With a shorter base plate you can get correct alignment with the string-thru holes and a perfect fit with your scratchplate, preventing the need for additional modification.

Vintage Saddles

Vintage-style saddles offer that classic Strat look whilst ensuring great performance. They help deliver great sustain and intonation thanks to their time-tested design.

Steel Base Plate

The shorter, steel base plate enhances the performance of your Strat-style guitar, offering great stability and sustain. Locked to the body via the included three, colour-matched mounting screws, the design ensures rock-solid contact between the bridge and guitar body, promoting the transfer of string vibrations.

See specs below

• Through-body string mounting
• String Spacing: 11.2mm
• String Spacing E to E: 56mm
• Colour-matched screws included
• Compatible with Left & Right Handed Guitars

• Northwest Guitars, Unit A Hoyle Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 0LW, GB
• Phone: +44 1925 407056
• Email: sales@northwestguitars.co.uk

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Hard Tail Strat/Tele Bridge

This is going on a Telecaster Deluxe project. It is a perfect fit with the Tele Deluxe body and HB scratch plate. One thing to be aware of is that the saddles are the 'vintage' bent steel design rather than 'metal block' designs. It means the adjustment available is either, quite small, or the grub screws have to be proud of the saddles. The saddles work but more modern block saddle designs would be an improvement. It is something easily changed, and lots of options are available. My only quibble is that it is designed only for through body strings, I prefer top loading the strings, and having a bridge with both options available would be more useful. The above aside, I'm very pleased with the quality and fit of this unit.

Ideal vintage spaced hardtail bridge

My partscaster hardtail build has pre-drilled holes for string ferrules. These were at vintage spacing, therefore I wanted a bridge with 11.2mm wide saddles. This classic hardtail bridge was a straight fit, lining up perfectly with the holes in the guitar body. Another good point to note is the front to back dimension of this bridge is smaller than a lot of the available alternatives. This meant that I didn't have to make any modifications to the pickguard. I've read a lot regarding the height adjustment screws on vintage saddles sticking up too high, making playing uncomfortable. I haven't had this issue with this bridge.
A good bridge that doesn't cost silly money.

String Through Holes Not Drilled Properly

The body looked great , so I bought the bridge that you recommend for the body and they did not line up , so now I have to spend more money to get it re-drilled so your body and bridge will line up so I can have it mounted. A bit disappointing to say the least..