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So I took the guitar to a shop for setup a while back and the guys there had no idea what they were doing. A month or so later I noticed that they also scratched the finish around the height adjustment knobs on the bridge, all the way down to the wood in one spot! It's a Les Paul Special (so a flat top) with an ebony nitro finish. I don't mind dents and scratches from wear and tear but seeing these ones from just carelessly scraping pliers on the finish really irritates me! Any suggestions on how to make it look nice again? Pics:

Hi all, A couple of the strings (G and low E) need a little more length to intonate properly. I watched all the videos on how to flip the saddles and tonight I eagerly sat down and took off my bridge and... hey where's the retaining wire? Oh. C-clips. Great. Can you remove these and put them back on in order to flip the saddle? How? Would it be better to just buy a 3rd party bridge with a little more distance to it? If so, any recommendations? Thanks!

@Black Dog awesome, thanks so much! I'll read it over tomorrow and see what I can do!

Thanks, that would be awesome to take a look at that setup guide! And yeah, I'm kind of dreading trying to turn the saddles around, because from what I read the only way to get at the retainer wire on a Nashville bridge is to take off the strings and take the bridge off. What a pain! Oh well. Fingers crossed!

Thanks @Jerbear114. I got this guitar about 20 years ago, then stopped playing, so it hasn't been played much but it has had strings on it all that time. I don't think it was set up well (if at all) from the factory since it always had buzzing frets and poor intonation. I recently got it out and tried to set it up on my own and now the action is great but intonation is still off. Half of the strings intonate correctly, and half are still sharp. And yes, as you can see, even the ones that sound correct have the saddles all the way down, which indicates that something isn't right. I have already done the following: Put on new strings (9-42's) Lower the action. With the 1st fret pressed and measured at the 15th fret: the height of the 6th string 1.93mm (thickness of an EU 10 cent coin), the height of the 1st string is about 1mm (thickness of a 42 gauge string) Adjusted the truss rod so that, with the 1st and 15th frets down, the height of the string over the 7th fret is between 0.009" and 0.011" (I used guitar strings to measure, the 9 gauge can pass between the fret and string but the 11 gauge can not.) Ensured that the bridge doesn't appear to be leaning forward Raised the tail piece in an attempt to lower tension on the strings Adjusted pickup heights: Bridge to both E strings: 2.4mm (thickness of an EU 50 cent coin) Neck to both E strings: 3.2mm (thickness of an EU 1 cent coin stacked on a US penny) The next things I'm going to try: Put on heavier strings, maybe 10-46's Turn around all the saddles so I can move them back a bit more. (It seems like that wouldn't really be fixing the problem though, right?) Double-check the nut measurements (I really hope this isn't the problem since I can't fix that) Ask for help here 😀 Buy a wider bridge so I can slide the saddles back even further If you or anyone else has some advice now at this time, I'm all ears!

Thanks all!

Hi all. I see all kinds of online discussion about tailpiece height, and how the strings should not rub against the edge of the bridge. But I don't find anything about whether it's OK for the strings to rub against the holes in the tail piece. Here's a picture of mine below. You can see that the strings are making contact with the top of the holes on the tailpiece. Is that OK? Or does it affect things negatively, or weaken them?