As am I!Telliot wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 12:44 pmHuh. That’s really weird. I’ve had a few Mastery equipped JMs and never had this happen. I can’t think what would be causing a pinging sound in the construction of the bridge itself. You said this happens when you transfer the bridge to different guitars? It almost sounds like it’s coming from the spring or collet, but I guess it can’t be if you’re able to reproduce the sound on other guitars. The only other thing I can think of is some slippage in the height screws of the saddles, or the saddles are hitting each other as you move the trem arm? Does the sound go away if you raise the Mastery, increasing the break angle? I’m truly baffled by this.
So, the saddles I’ve dabbed a little bit of loctite 222 (per woodys suggestion) on the saddle rotator circles so they don’t move very much. They’re not making contact.
If I raise the action, it seems like it gets louder.
I had this problem initially ALL the time, as in whenever I used the bar, the strings would creak against the saddles.i removed the shim and it improved. But now, the problem is localized to only if I let the high e or b strings ring out for a few seconds, THEN use the bar. Literally only those two though! No other strings.
Like I said, if you strum a big open E chord, with slight force, let them ring out for 5 seconds, then depress the bar, it’ll creak like in the video. I’m stumped man