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Post subject: Jaguar bridge: push back or push to front?
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:53 am
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Hey all!

As you may know, the bridge piece of a Jaguar can move back (towards the right) and can move front (towards the pickups), or in the middle.

I'm playing a lot of surf music, so I use the tremolo arm a lot. Does anyone know what the best bridge position is, or the 'factory' position? Asking this, I keep these two things in mind:

1) Possible detuning when using the tremolo arm (because the bridge is leaning to one side)
2) The pitch/tuning of the saddles (because the bridge is pushed all the way to the back of all the way to the front)

I'm really experimenting a lot, and sometimes it really works, and sometimes it don't...

Please help me!

Steven (30, Amsterdam)


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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:08 pm
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HI Steve,

yeah it's a tricky one. The bridge on the Jag is a fussy fussy little beast!
The factory setup is meant to operate as a shallow trem that does not bend far up or down. For this the bridge is meant to be in the middle and it rocks a little forward if you bend down, a little back if you bend up. It's not a very precise system, but it's also not meant for extreme 'swooping'.

There are other ways to set it up depending on your own taste. I play a Jazzmaster, with the same bridge/trem, and I like to bend more and have more travel in the arm - so I tighten the adjusting screw right up so the trem will NOT bend up, only down. This raises the arm so it's much higher off the face of the guitar, has more travel, and you can bend down a LOT more. I keep the bridge moved back, towards the trem arm, so it rocks forward as I bend down, then rocks back into position. This is pretty reliable for tuning, and I set the saddle intonation up for this to be the normal position of the bridge. No problems.

I think this is the way Elvis Costello uses it too, based on Fender's description of the trem on his signature JM. But it's a little vague, I can't be sure. It definitely works for me anyway.


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Central is the best position i found.
Check fenderjaguar.net for set up, it is the best website around on the Jaguar.


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