I've recently purchased a 60's Lacquer Jazzmaster and have replaced the original bridge saddles with some special saddles my father had made for me a few years ago, for my first Jag. Because of strings spacing issues on the JM, he recently modified the saddles again. Unfortunately they now seem to be too loose horizontally (which we tried to fix by inserting a thin rod in the bridge next to the high E saddle, to push them all close) and I'm facing buzz issues again. I'm starting to feel a bit frustrated of not getting the best out of this beautiful guitar and I want to buy a Staytrem to fix all of this.
All this being said I think I remember reading online that the 60's Lacquer had "weird" thimbles, different from the AVRI ones, and that Staytrem, like Mastery, made special thimbles to replace the original ones on some of those weird MIM models. But when I go on the Staytrem website, I can't find those thimbles. Did I hallucinate reading about them ? Did they stop making them ? Is it possible to put the Staytrem on my guitar without replacing the thimbles ?
The guitar right now, with the saddles my father made (you can see he also replaced the original three big trem plate screws with flat ones, to avoid string contact issues) :
