OH I IS DIED AN' GWAN TO TELE BRIDGE-FIXIN HEAVEN!

[swarfrat]

Thats changing the material.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Thats changing the material.

Correct, but only the material and not the design changes sound?

 

[swarfrat]

Design does matter, but I'd argue that 6 individual hunks of same material rigidly attached to same material is materially the same as same amount material similarly attached.

 

[tfarny]

Of course, nobody has mentioned the fact the nut end has the same "issue" of vibration transference / damping. Which nobody is proposing to solve, I take it.
Nor the fact that ALL of the worlds finest classical string instruments have bridges carved of a simple piece of hardwood and simply set into place, and don't really seem to have many problems with sounding decent. But a telecaster, no, those strings have to be "isolated" from one another.

 

[swarfrat]

I'll stop short of saying its desirable. I'm curious about the decoupled bridge for a hex pickup guitar. But other than that - the strings vibrate the same neck, the same bridge, the same nut, go through the same pickups, the same amp, and all come out the same speaker. And people try to tell me that separate rigid connections between rigid bodies is going to have an impact?