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Location: Flahdaw | I'm looking at possibly buying an 80's 1712 and notice it has a straight saddle as opposed to an angled saddle. Any negatives of this set up? Intonation issues with chords as you go up the neck? |
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Location: Michigan | I would not think there would be intonation probs. It look like a Legend saddle and there are no problems with those. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I assume by "not angled saddle" you mean that the saddle is straight in line perpendicular to the strings?
Depending how picky you are and how far up the neck you play, YES this will give intonation problems. If you only play cowboy chords in the first three frets you're probably OK. But a correctly installed Ovation thinline should look something like this ...
To be even more precise, some guitar builders will make Compensated saddles which further tweek the scale length per string for the best possible intonation. Like this ...
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| The 1712 uses an Original Patented Pickup and not a Thinline, right? All of my current O's and A's use the former, and none have intonation problem. And yes, is is straight across. The integrated saddles are compensated.
Nice diagrams, Dave. |
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Ovation CB 1712