I always had a modern 6 saddle bridge on my usa standard tele, when I bought a new roadworn mexican tele, it came with an ashtray bridge so I wanted to mostly change something because of intonation problems, so these compensated saddles where a great thing... But i always liked how the non ashtray bridge gave me a cleaner access to strings, being that I strike pretty hard and close to the bridge, this was a match made in heaven, it had the modern clean access and the vintage brass sound and look, along with great tuning precission of these perfectly compensated saddles.