and told him I wanted to
build an intonation-adjustable
wooden bridge with piezos in
it. He told me: “It can’t be done
and no one cares.” [Laughs.]
He knows a lot about this stuff
but I wasn’t willing to just put
a single 1/8" bone saddle in the
bridge. I made the saddle 5/16"
and made the whole bridge able
to move with the piezo in it.
That was the least I could do
as far as I was concerned, and I
left it at that for a while.
Since this model’s inception,
I had been thinking this bass
was going to be great for Steve
Swallow. Steve tried the one
with the 5/16" bone saddle,
loved the sound of it, said he
had to have it, and that he’s
always wanted a wooden bridge
with piezo. But he also said
that an intonation-adjustable
bridge would be a great plus if
I could do it, because he’s such
a nut about intonation. For
some reason or other, that was
all the impetus I needed to get
this new bridge together. And it
was then I realized how close I
was to making it work. The idea
came to me that if I considered
my 5/16" saddle a sub-saddle, I
could put moving parts (bone
saddles) on top of it with piezo
