The least of the problems or yet another thing wrong? It's a game of perspectives. My own is why bother filing saddles down when you could replace them with something that goes some way to rectifying the bigger problems.mbene085 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:04 pmWhile there are lots of reasons wouldn't want to put a TOM on anything with a vibrato, the radius mismatch is the least of them.
TOM saddles can easily be filed with a nut slotting file. You or your tech can set the radius to anything you like in about 5 minutes with the right tools. I didn't know this when I first read about the evils of AOMs, but I do now.
I've another perspective that comes from my Luxe Jag, which has an AOM. Being a string-through sans trem and having a 10-14 compound radius, the bridge is perfect. Purists may want barrel saddles there instead, but no purist would touch the Luxe anyway. The bridge is just yet another thing wrong to others, but as someone who loves the long-scale heavy sustain machine the Luxe turned out to be, the AOM bridge (or something similar) is fundamental to that.
The AOM as used on guitars with offset trem systems - the majority of its application - fundamentally breaks the design of thise instruments. Radius mismatch is just another thing to hate about it. If you wanted to design (steal) the worst bridge for such guitars, you'd design an AOM. Then you'd mismatch the radius too. Except Fender actually did that.