wooden bridge on electric guitar ?

[blazemite]

i know this is probably absurd but i was thinking that a wooden bridge on an electric guitar might give it a better tone than the more conventional metal bridge. what are your thoughts on this ? i know it wont be at easily adjustable as a normal bridge but i kind of figure that an acoustic guitar uses wooden bridges, so why can't electrics?

[Puff]

If you could narrow the parameters it could be a timesaver - there are many bridge, bridge tail piece configurations in the electrified world. As an overall answer there is no reason why not. There are three electric archtops right here with ebony floating bridges and trapeze tail pieces.
Mellower tone? You could suck it and see but shaping tone is much more easily done after the signal leaves a solid body guitar.
The notion that a 'steel' string has to pass over a 'steel' saddle to excite an electromagnetic pickup is wrong.

[Nick]

Many moons ago I made a telecaster with an acoustic top & 'hollow' body, my first foray into the acoustic world. The guitar wasn't bad, no good as an acoustic obviously but it had an acoustic wooden bridge...a generic one from Stewmacs if I remember rightly. I wanted it mainly so that I could fit two pickup systems, the standard magnetic type & an piezo undersaddle (with onboard preamp tucked in behind the soundboard) to try & produce an acoustic sound. It partially woked in that respect but running through the magnetics, having an acoustic bridge wasn't any different than the metal style.

[jeffhigh]

Danelectro did it back in the 50's with a rosewood Bridge/saddle that rested on a L shaped string anchorage plate. Just move it back and forward for inotation adjustment.

But then most acoustics actually have the string contacting a bone saddle rather than wood.

[liam_fnq]

I once saw a guy playing an electric guitar that had the metal saddles replaced with bone.

[Taffy Evans]

This guitar has wooden saddle and electric pickup.

[Puff]

From the angle of the spider there's a tad of compensation in there too Like the wee offset of the tailpiece also. Is there an undersaddle lurking in there too?