Few Questions on my brand new Suhr S1!

[Dallas Marlow]

Hey All,

I haven't posted in this section of rig-talk before but I just recently got a Suhr S-1 in Olympic white, it's an amazing guitar and sounds fantastic I just have a few questions regarding a couple of things I don't know about it! It's actually a really light guitar and has this very "airy" quality to the sound.

First question is in regards to the buzz feiten tuning system, I've only ever seen this done after market and each string is compenstated just a bit differently, at least on the EBMM guitars I've seen it on. I noticed on this guitar the nut and all the slots are exactly the same distance from each other and it makes a HUGE difference to the point where it just sounds better than all my other guitars tuning wise! It's just that much of a difference! Must question is how does this work is the nut just moved closer to the first fret, and as for replacements if I didn't want to use Buzz fieten for whatever reason, how hard is it to replace the nut?

The next question is about the finish on the guitar, it is a LOT LOT LOT thinner than the gobs of poly that are on my strat, but is the finish poly or nitro? It feels like poly, but who knows maybe it's something I don't know about?

The last question I have is in regards to the saddles, this bridge is fantastic keeps in tune, really easy don't have to fight it, but it seems and I could just be imagining things that the saddles aren't as dense as the rest of the bridge and I was wondering if anyone has tried those raw vintage saddles and if they would even work with this bridge.

Thanks for your advice and help I was just curious about a few things

Dallas

 

[ratter]

I'm no John Suhr but I've owned a couple S1s and love them...

1. Buzz Feiten - the nut is moved and the tuning and intonation are tempered slightly. I think that to "undo" it would be quite difficult becuase you'd have to either relocate the nut completely or come up with some kind of shelved nut arrangement. Make sure you get a proper tuner to get the accuracy that you need to intonate to the Feiten offsets - a Strobostomp at least.

2. The finish is polyester but like you said, super thin.

3. The same Gotoh bridge is available in a bent-saddle version. I don't know if you can get the saddles separately, or if you have to buy the whole bridge. They're sourced through Allparts. I asked Suhr about it at one point and I think that at the time, Ed Yoon told me that if they had them in stock they could sell me the saddles but since they were out, I should go straight to Allparts...I never ended up doing it...

Great guitars!!

 

[Dallas Marlow]

Sweet ratter thanks for the replies

Yea the fieten thing is amazing, it really keeps incredibly in tune. I have the boss tu12 or whatever it is, their high end tuner with the meter on it, it's no strobe tuner but for doing intonation it's pretty good, if I have to I can probably use the piano tuners $1500 strobe tuner at school. But I have a hard time doing intonation work sometimes on guitars because you have to compensate for string height and pull at the upper frets and doing it just by harmonics isn't exactly accurate.

Cool on the poly finish, that's what I figured but was just confirming.

Gotcha on the bent saddles, well I just heard about these raw vintage saddles and supposedly they are really amazing, and I was wondering if they would work and all on this axe!?

Thanks,

Dallas