Hardtail bridge questions

[Steve St.Laurent]

Working on designing my next guitar (a tele) and I plan on going with a flat hardtail strat style mount on it.  This will be an HH guitar with seymour duncan humbuckers.  The hardware will all be black on this one.  I'll be playing a lot of fingerstyle blues on this guitar so a little wider string spacing would be nice.  The vintage style flat mount ( http://www.warmoth.com/Strat-Flat-Mount-Bridge-Vintage-Spacing-Black-P580C703.aspx ) has a string spacing of 2 1/4" whereas the Strat flat mount ( http://www.warmoth.com/Stratreg-Flat-Mount-Bridge-Humbucker-Spacing-Black-P582C705.aspx ) has a string spacing of 2 1/8" which they say is better for humbuckers.  Thoughts on which way to go would be better? 

Also, I don't like the vintage style saddles because I palm mute right on the bridge a lot and prefer the modern style saddles.  All I can find is black saddles made for 2 1/16" spacing - http://graphtech.com/product-13-2/ . Thoughts on using a smaller saddle on a wider bridge?  Also, anyone know of a steel saddle that is close to 2 1/4" in black? (graphtech only makes their full graphtech saddle in 2 3/16")

 

[bagman67]

I don't know what the string spacing is (you'd have to call Carvin to find out) but the Carvin hardtail bridge is pretty solid, has modern solid saddles, and is available in black:

http://www.carvinguitars.com/products/single.php?product=FT6B&cid=88

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Just got off the phone with them - it's 2 1/16" - thanks though.

 

[Cagey]

Have you looked at the Schaller 475 series?

They adjust in width from 2 1/8" to 2 3/16" and the saddles lock in place. They're short, smooth, and have roller saddles with individual height and intonation adjustments. Plus, they're rear-load units so you don't need to do the string-through-body thing. Warmoth sells them for $56 to $78, depending on the finish.