the Fly Clone Project

Mmguitar was dude enough to sell me one at a very reasonable price. That should fix the one issue I have. But having a substantial collection I feel i should have a few extras as I'm nervous now lol. The only ones I could find the guy wants 111 dollars. That turns me off to that seller permanently as that just absolute robbery and downright shameful or shameless can't decide which. Any help much appreciated.

I was also going to get some from mmmguitar, but I got offered some of the GraphTech for an exceptionally unavoidable good deal (FREE!), so I went with those. They've been working perfectly for me and are still commercially available, but required modifications to install, that I cover on this topic viewtopic.php?t=1029

Thanks for that and thanks for doing such a good write up on it!! I'm not sure this would help me with the pre-refined models though?

In case it isn't clear to other community members: InsideInfo is looking for era-specific, original components; and not merely modern replacements (both available through Graph Tech and RMC).

For anyone curious: the modern Graph Tech and RMC piezo saddle elements should retrofit all eras of Fly, Nitefly, DF, etc. production utilizing the Parker bridge or tremolo - Though there have been documented, isolated instances of some saddle sets (such as the USM-era single piece saddles) being slightly too wide to fit a particular Fly or Nitefly bridge from the 1990s era of production.

Thanks for the clarification MMguitar. I sent you another 10 on the saddle for shipping, it has been received and thank you again!! I did not know another company made saddles as well besides graphtech so I will look into RMC. I'm picking up 2 more pre-refines next Tuesday so my paranoia increases everytime I buy another lol

InsideInfo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 1:46 pm I did not know another company made saddles as well besides graphtech so I will look into RMC.

Richard McClish/RMC's saddles were developed in the Fishman era, and are specialized toward 13 pin users who prefer to drive their synths with piezos, rather than a Roland GK pickup. The trade-off is that they're much more expensive than Graph Tech's, but are much better suited to hexaphonic setups (when paired with the RMC PolyDrive preamp, which is similarly built to much higher spec than Graph Tech's Hexpander preamp). The two Belew model iterations were the only ones which came stock with RMC saddles and preamps.

Good to know. I went ahead and bought a set of graphtechs for now and I'm going to throw them on the deluxe I have that's out getting painted. Since that guitar will never be stock again, I'll go ahead and steal all the saddles off that one and put the graphtechs on that when it comes back. Thanks!