Telecaster bridge question HELP!!!!!!!!!

dogfootblues
dogfootblues Posts: 116
edited March 2012 in Musicians and Gearheads
Hey guys, Ive got a 98' standard Fender Telecaster. The question is, is there a vintage bride i can buy that will accept the same screw holes made from the standard telecaster bridge. Also i noticed that the vintage bride is smaller in length. Does someone man a vintage telecaster bridge as long as the standard telecaster bridge. I just took my bridge off and it looks like the metal from the bridge left weird rust like marks on the paint underneath it and if i go the vintage bridege the marks willl show. For the love of christ please help mw qick.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    American Standard or made in Mexico Standard?

    This is for the american ones.

    http://www.callahamguitars.com/brdge_T.htm

    Vintage style bridges should fit a Mexican standard. Bit of elbow grease with a car-finish grade scratch remover will get rid of the marks most likely.
  • dogfootblues
    dogfootblues Posts: 116
    it a mexico standard. So if i wanted to put a regular vintage bride on would the screw holes show from the mexico standard bridge? I really want a vintage bridge and im ordering my p-90 pickguard tonight and i wanna get the bridge at the same time.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    compare yours to pictures of the current MIM standards. They fit the recent ones. The biggest difference is the 4 screw attachment of the american standards but from what I've seen, the MIM bridges and vintage bridges have the same three screw spacing and should fit.
  • dogfootblues
    dogfootblues Posts: 116
    my mexican telecaster standard has four screws holding it. four screw holes rite above the 6 string holes
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    yeah, sorry i had that backwards. The vintage style has 4 screws. the am std has 3.


    Here is good info on the spacing of the different bridge mounting.

    www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/T ... tions.aspx
  • RedMosquito22
    RedMosquito22 Posts: 8,158
    dogfootblues wrote:
    Hey guys, Ive got a 98' standard Fender Telecaster. The question is, is there a vintage bride i can buy that will accept the same screw holes made from the standard telecaster bridge. Also i noticed that the vintage bride is smaller in length. Does someone man a vintage telecaster bridge as long as the standard telecaster bridge. I just took my bridge off and it looks like the metal from the bridge left weird rust like marks on the paint underneath it and if i go the vintage bridege the marks willl show. For the love of christ please help mw qick.

    These are the best bridge assemblies you can buy. And yes they will make it work. All hand made and not junk fender standard garbage. You can even get it distressed

    http://www.callahamguitars.com/partstel.htm
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