Bean 1000S Saddle Height Adjustment Screws

[Pure L]

Dammit.

I think I might need one a new one of these. Yes, only one.

Does anyone know if something like this will work for a replacement?

http://tinyurl.com/bl7w9z

Crossing my fingers.

Here's a pic too:

[Pure L]

Got my question answered at the Travis Bean Guitars site.

Here: http://tinyurl.com/ct7laj

(just in case anyone else is following this)

[Terry McInturff]

They must surely be a standard allen head part. Black oxide coated.

My first thing would be to take all of the needed screws to Lowes or Home depot and dig thru those parts drawers. If you find the size and thread that you need, but it is too long, just cut it down.

Also, a place like Allparts (google that) would likely have what you need. You just need to know the specs.

[chris jury]

I would try Stone Way hardware, ( you probably know, but: on Stone Way, Just about 2 blocks south of 45th, in fremont). I ususally go there if I can't find the nut or screw I need. If that doesn't work, there is a really good fastener shop on Broadway in Everett, they will have it for sure...and probably give you a mean look for only buying a couple. The dude once guilted me into buying 100 pickguard screws...still only came to $2.50.

It's probably not unique in the guitar world either, so Trading Musician may have one, or a single saddle you could buy and disassemble.

chris

[Pure L]

Tacoma Screw in Ballard (Leary Way) had 'em.

I was starting to sweat that too.

So glad I did it......the bridge/bridge screws were so gummed up with rust, dirt, hand-gunk, etc. that there was absolutely no way to intonate the thing. Nothing would move.

And, honestly, the heights of the screws (where they were stuck) were really, really fucked up in terms of balance and how the string was lined up within the saddle.

This all started after listening to some practice recordings and thinking....."is that out of tune?"

Now that it can be intonated, I realize that intonating this thing to 100% accuracy (or even near there) is close to impossible on a couple of strings (the E and the G, actually) but, hey......its a much better machine now. That's for sure.

Taking it apart let me realize that they weren't fucking around when they built these bridges. Shit's pretty intricate.

[scott]

Now that it can be intonated, I realize that intonating this thing to 100% accuracy (or even near there) is close to impossible on a couple of strings (the E and the G, actually) but, hey......its a much better machine now. That's for sure.

Wait, WHAT?!?! A TB-1000S that cannot be intonated correctly? That seems really... just shocking, I guess. Are you playing a far-out set of string gauges, or tuning it radically different? I would have thought with the relative stability of aluminum that it if it was able to be intonated when it was built, it should be able to be intonated today. Maybe the bridge was never properly located in the first place, when it was manufactured? Just really surprising, I guess.

[mr.arrison]

I had a TB1000s that was extremely difficult to get accurate intonation on. I think it sounded fine when I played it, but on every tuner I used it would just get wacky. I think it had more to do with higher-end tuners picking up the massive overtones and harmonics coming off of new strings and the aluminum neck. I actually had the best luck using a shitty Boss tuner. I never was quite able to get the G string right though. I have another TB that does not have this problem. Weird. I even tried different saddles.

[a. james]

I had a TB1000s that was extremely difficult to get accurate intonation on. I think it sounded fine when I played it, but on every tuner I used it would just get wacky. I think it had more to do with higher-end tuners picking up the massive overtones and harmonics coming off of new strings and the aluminum neck. I actually had the best luck using a shitty Boss tuner. I never was quite able to get the G string right though. I have another TB that does not have this problem. Weird. I even tried different saddles.

did you try turning down the tone knob, or tuning it through the tuner out on an amp with all the treble cut?

[scott]

The harmonics overpower the fundamental? This too is something I've not heard of before.

I can't stand instruments that are non-intonate-able. They're not really very useful unless you're A) playing atonal or noise-based music, or B) so good that you can adapt your playing style so you know to always bend individual strings by whatever fraction of a fret you have to bend it for it to be in tune.

I was pretty shocked the first time I ran into this issue, when a friend was shopping for a Ric guitar at guitar center and the first three we tried were all impossible to intonate correctly. After the third one, we gave up and wrote off Rics as garbage (which I'd now look at as "Rics produced in the late 90's" since I know they're not *all* garbage) and he ended up with a Jazzmaster instead.

I am really shocked to hear that multiple TB1000's are known to suffer from this problem. I've thought of them as well-made. That's a fucking bush league mistake to make, building a guitar with a bridge that's in the wrong spot. And to do it on a boutique guitar like a Bean?!?! Boggles the mind.