Patent ID: 8344231
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
1. An improvement to a guitar tremolo bridge and saddle unit that comprises a bridge plate with upturned flange, a tone block, individual string saddles per strings, and strings that go over the individual saddles at a sharp angle through the bridge plate and secure in the tone block and where the string saddles include individual intonation adjustment screws between the string saddles and the upturned flange, where the improvement provides a means to have a guitar restrung entirely on the topside of said guitar with one end of the strings terminating on or at the bridge plate, which significantly reduces an angle of deflection of the strings as they go over the string saddles, thereby reducing string drag or friction at the saddles and improving pitch stability, the modification to the bridge plate and saddles comprises a re-use of the original parts in a different way to omit threading the strings into the tone block and to omit the intonation adjustment screws between the upturned flange of the bridge plate and the respective saddles, system comprising a pair of readjustable saddle clamp jaw units, for holding all the saddles together as a unit with the mating surface of the first jaw mechanism contacting the first exposed side of the string saddles at the saddle used for the first string at the first side and anchored to the bridge plate via a fastener through the first jaw and into the string hole vacated by the first string, and the mating surface of the second jaw mechanism contacting the second exposed side of the string saddles at the saddle used for the last string at the second side and anchored to the bridge plate via a fastener through the second jaw and into the string hole vacated by the last string; each jaw comprising an upturned plate and pivotable about its fastener and comprising a hole in the upturned plate and an adjustable fastener extending between the upturned plates of the first jaw and the second jaw, where tightening the adjustable fastener pivots the upturned plates together to secure the saddles via the jaws to the bridge plate; where the strings can now thread across the saddles and be secured into the upturned flange of the bridge plate in the holes vacated by the intonation adjustment screws.