If you look at many of the Traveler Guitars marketed as "acoustic" they have a notched saddle as the strings go around the back. Why not try making a notched saddle with the string spacing you want and see if it actually works. I know this is heresy on the AGF, but a notched saddle combined with Powerpins with which you could reduce the break angle of the string over the saddle and point the string at the notch, might make it work better. My experience with Powerpins is quite good and I think too much is made of their mass (since it is right at the fulcrum of the seesaw, which is an acoustic bridge, and the energy wasted wearing away your bridgeplate is recovered for sound). Jon
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