It cracks me up how Fender has seemed to create this problem for their customers! Haha I really love Fender, but it seems they could have simplified things for not only the customer but for themselves! Preaching to the choir, I'm sure.timtam wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 7:05 pmYes it looks like the 60th Anniv Triple JM has the 7709942000 Am Pro bridge. Hopefully it suits. The (harder) fix for too-wide string spacing is to drill new intonation screw holes in the other wall of the bridge plate that are 10.4mm apart, and shave off the sides of the saddles to allow the string grooves to also be 10.4mm apart (for 52mm E-E spacing ) instead of 11.2mm apart (with 56mm spacing).NateD81 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 6:03 pmI ended up finding a used, what I believe is the Fender American Professional bridge used on Reverb for 60 bucks so I’m just going to give it a shot. It came off the Triple Humbucker 60th anniv JM I thought I might try it. I figure if the E’s are off I can fix that in my dads machine shop, but hoping I won’t need to. If that doesn’t work out I’ll throw it back up on Reverb but if nothing else, I’ll post my results to help anyone with a similar situation.
I ended up adjusting my string spacing on my JM to what I believe to be 56mm, just to see if it would bother me at all and I actually seemed to be ok. I guess I'll find out when the Am Pro bridge comes.
Just a thought, does anyone know if the saddles on the Am Pro bridge are perfectly round barrels? If so, could the low E and high E barrels be flipped 180 and then mill two new slots to get closer to the 52mm spacing? Just trying to be creative