I bought a Graphtech nut a while ago and its been sitting in my bits box for ages. I decided to buy a Graphtech bridge to go with it and install in in my Deal ML79 as the bridge had a bit of a rattle and some of the chrome was wearing away where I rest my palm.
Here's a picture of the Resomax bridge
The idea behind it is that it is made out of a lightweight alloy that transmits the strings vibrations to the guitar body better, and the saddles are made of Teflon impregnated graphite that lubricates the string and help keep you in tune.
This is a picture of my existing bone nut compared to the new Graphtech one
Here's my guitar with the new bridge in place
Installation went pretty much to plan although the graphite nut was extremely wearing on my nut files, I think a couple of them are almost blunt now!! I thought graphite was supposed to be soft?
I noticed a couple of things after installation, firstly I seem to have a pretty bad rattle on the E and A strings between the 1st and 4th frets, I could swear that it wasn't there before but I cant be sure. I set my action up to my usual 1.35mm at the 12th fret thick E string and 1.14mm and the thin E string. Another thing was as much as I tried I couldn't get the intonation of my A string closer than about 2 cents flat, its not much out but I know its there and its bugging me!
Tone wise chord work seemed to be clearer and more smoothed out, it reminded me a little bit of using flat wound strings except it didn't sound dull in treble.
I will have to see how it goes and post on my progress, cant get past that rattle at the moment :(
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