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Stops moving.Starts sounding like you.
Every other offset bridge asks string tension to hold your setup still. It won't. Ours doesn't ask — it locks. Here's exactly what that means, and how it gets onto your guitar in about fifteen minutes.
See it in your guitar → Compare Original vs Fixie →The fundamentals
Turn a screw on most offset bridges and you've moved something into place. You haven't fixed it there. String tension is pretty much all that's holding it, and that's dynamic — it changes every time you bend a note, dig in, or reach for the bar.
A Tuffset saddle folds adjustment and locking into one system. Height, intonation, the post itself — all mechanically fixed, not just adjusted. Nothing to creep, sink, or wander while you play.
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Notice something missing?
Springs were one of the main liabilities of the stock design, especially if the posts are fixed. You won't find a single spring on a Tuffset bridge.
Our locking system put the springs out of a job they were never up to anyway — they can go rattle someone else's guitar.
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Your current bridge could be hiding its biggest weakness.
Nudge a saddle sideways and it gives, just slightly. Most of them just balance on a screw head hidden underneath, free to skate across the bridge plate and drag the intonation screws with them — because nothing's anchoring them laterally.
Unfortunately, most of the energy you put into a strum is lateral. So if your Offset never quite gives back what you put in, now you know why.
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We added a part. On purpose.
Every bridge designer chases fewer parts — until you remember a washer is an extra part, and a bolt with one holds tighter than a bolt without. Rattling, bad sustain and drifting setup were never parts-count problems. They're parts-not-attached-properly problems.
The real solution is uprating the fixings between components until the whole bridge performs and resonates as one rigid piece, working with your Offset's naturally shallow break angle instead of fighting it.
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You've heard of shims.
Shims are the roundabouts of the Offset world — newcomers dread them, veterans swear by them. Squeezing a precisely shaped block between two surfaces is precise and difficult work.
The real solution is uprating the fixings between components until the whole bridge performs and resonates as one rigid piece, working with your Offset's naturally shallow break angle instead of fighting it.
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Same idea. Two completely different feels.
The Original
The whole chassis rocks with your vibrato, the way an offset bridge always has. High-friction saddles grip the string so it returns to pitch exactly — every time you use the bar, not just most of the time.
The Fixie
The chassis locks straight into your guitar's own thimbles — it doesn't move at all. Ultra-low-friction PVD saddles let the string slide instead of grip, for a thicker, more direct attack and long, clean sustain.
Fifteen minutes. Two tools. No modification.
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01Lift the old one out
Slacken the strings and pull your factory bridge from its thimbles. Nothing to unscrew, nothing to route.
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02Drop the Tuffset in
Same thimbles, same footprint. It sits straight into the holes your old bridge left behind — direct retrofit, every time.
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03Set it. Lock it. Forget it.
Tune your action and intonation the way you always have, then lock each adjustment down. That's it — it won't move again until you want it to.
The Tuffset difference
Nothing pressed or cast
Every bespoke component is precision-milled from 303/304 billet stainless steel.
Made in the UK
Specialist UK manufacturers, assembled by a dedicated small team in our own workshop.
Bearing Lock system
Post heights lock rigidly in place — won't sink down when you need it most.
No flimsy springs
A patented lock needs no springs, so the bridge resonates like one piece of steel.
Complements, doesn't compete
Suits your guitar's styling — no flashy logos or mismatched materials.
Vintage feel, none of the hassle
True rocking action, without the vintage-correct ownership headaches.
Grips, and stays gripped
Engineered to return to true intonation even under persistent vibrato abuse.
A palm rest, by design
Taller, chamfered shoulders improve stability and rest your picking hand.
A true drop-in
No modification, ever. Lift out the old bridge, drop the Tuffset straight in.
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“I never realised my guitar was fighting me so much before. Now it just sounds like me.”
Verified owner · Jazzmaster '66The questions we get asked most
Will it actually fit my guitar?
If it has standard offset bridge thimbles — Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Mustang, Bass VI or a derivative — yes.
Do I need to modify anything?
No routing, no drilling, no filing. It's built to the same footprint as the bridge you're replacing.
Original or Fixie — what if I pick wrong?
Send it back within 14 days, or ask to swap to the other. Most compatibility issues are solved by switching, not refunding.
What tools do I need?
Everything required is in the box, including the hex keys for the locking screws.
Dial it in once.
Forget about it forever.
Two philosophies, one patented lock. Pick the feel you want — or let the chooser do it for you.
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