I just got it installed and letting the new strings and other components settle.The saddles appear to be working and screws are tight.

If you are upgrading a cheaper foreign-made Strat (like a Mexican or, in particular, a Squier Strat), the tremolo weight is more than twice as heavy in this bridge, giving richer tone longer sustain. Just be sure to use the whammy bar that comes with it since the bars differ in width (and in screw count, which might not be noticeable at first, but will wear on the system in time. Intonation action settings are solid. If you're replacing the cheap tremolo on a Squier, note that this tremolo weight is longer than the Squier's you won't be able to put the back plate on again (no grief since most pros keep them off for quicker string changes on stage or in studios). Use only three of the springs, placed left, right center on the bar claw. Note: for a true floating bridge that you can pull up as well as swoop, put a popsicle stick (say 0.08 thick) between the back end of the bridge the body before adjusting intonation action. Then with the strings at their playing tension, start loosening the screws on the claw from the back a quarter-turn at a time counter-clockwise until the popsicle stick slips out easily. The combined tension of the strings the internal springs will hold the bridge in the proper floating position.I would also suggest replacing your nut at the same time if you have a plastic one. You can use bone, but the best is the self-lubricated Tusq material, which doesn't wear on the strings so much at the nut when you do bends tremolo. While you have the strings off to do your installation, take advantage of it to clean oil the fretboard sand down the frets to evenness, using finer finer sandpaper, finishing off with Meguier's non-compound polish for the smoothest bends. For Squiers, you can also get a $5.00 grit sponge from Home Depot to smooth off the edges of the frets at the sides of the fretboard, which are often not as finely finished as on an American Standard Strat. Rub up and back on the side edges of the fretboard at about a 45 degree angle to get a bit of a rounded edge to the fretboard too, which will make sliding up and down the neck easier. You want both the best tone the best playability out of the guitar. Take a little time you can make your guitar much better in both areas. If you want to go whole hog and have a Squier that's better than a $2,000 Fender, have a luthier install handwound pickups with Alnico 5 (or 3 for mellower) poles instead of the cheap ceramic magnets Squier uses. Don't forget to wire in new 250K pots. If you can't handle basic soldering, let a technician or luthier install the PUs pots. You can even have it wired so the middle switch position enables both the bridge neck PUs use a push-pull blender pot to be able to blend in all three pickups for some very different sounds no stock Fender can produce.

I installed it on my 49 year old Dagnostino/Matsumoto guitar. I did have to make minor adjustments. It has breathed new life into this guitar. It is a joy to play.

Excellent product!

The saddles are very good and the intonation screws are very precise. The issue comes with the block being too tall for many strats. It fit in mine but forget about any tremolo action. On the other hand you get some amazing tone an sustain if your happy without the trem. It really needs a shorty block. 36mm or shorter. I have the bridge an saddles I like so I can replace the block at any time. For the price this is an awesome deal, I think. I give it four stars for the block being so big and no hardware with it but most guitarists have that stuff on hand.

This went into a partscaster kit that came with a flimsy trem bridge. The sustain improvement was massive. Also, the screws are way higher quality than those preinstalled kit parts. For the price, this is a steal and a must for someone owning a cheap stray copy or builds a kit. The only issue is that the larger metal block of the bridge can bump against the wood of the body when using the tremolo arm if the kit guitar has a small bridge slot. I do not use it, and it was a great fit. Highly recommended and pretty cheap for a fender part.

It fit perfectly into my MIM Strat. The upgrade from the flimsy tremolo is notable in performance and sound quality when I hit the whammy bar. In addition, the installed tremolo had an open hole for the whammy bar, so I couldn't install the tension spring. This tremolo is properly closed and accepts the spring. Definitely worth the money.

It's a good replacement for my cheap Chinese bridge, I had to take a star off because the one that I was sent has a big piece of chrome chipped off of it and looks unsightly.

Fits my squire stratocaster classic vibe 50s , no modification needed

I have a very inexpensive S type guitar I purchased as a project. When I disassembled it to repaint it, I noticed the trem block was very thin and unimpressive. I put in new electronics, did all the fretwork, and painted the body and it worked fairly well but with average sustain, and I was not surprised. The cheap trem (nobody should have a trem where you fear being cut by how thin the baseplate looks) had the wrong size saddles, and it was cheaper to buy this trem and get the saddles too.Upon receiving this I was amazed at how beefy it is, and by the quality of the part (and all the smaller parts that make it).I measured the recipient body before I ordered this and compared against Fender's published specs, and it looked like it would drop right in. When I got it, the holes lined up perfectly, but corners were (un)cut on my project guitar and I had to route a small bit of wood (about 4mm x 20mm of cap) because the guitar body would not fit a full sized bridge plate on the term arm side. After removing that small bit of wood this trem dropped in perfectly (as it did when I tested it in a Squier Strat body that is my other project).After buttoning the guitar back up, I was not surprised to find better sustain characteristics. As an experiment, I checked this guitar's sustain against a sample recorded with the old bridge and it was a clear upgrade.This bridge is also better than the one that came with my Squier project Strat (and it fits without modification), so I'll be getting another one.All in all, I've never been a genuine Fender kind of person, but I am impressed and delighted by the quality of the genuine Fender parts I've purchased to date, and it's why I will continue to buy these parts for all my project guitars that fit the S or T body shapes.

that it fit

Mine arrived beat up. Looks like a hundred other tremolo bridges were thrown at it... I had to file, sand and polish sharp jagged dents and nicks on the blade edge.Other than that, the finish is really good. It fit my MIM Stratocaster body perfectly. Nice heavy block. It's just fine for a standard Stratocaster setup.

Bought this product twice, it works fine but hole for the tremolo arm is never lined up properly with the block itself, which sucks but hey it's a nice bridge

Using a belt sander and 80 grit sand paper, I was able to shave off just enough for this to fit in my Squire custom build. Had to do some minor sanding to the body too, but not much. It's a simple enough install, and it makes a $300 Squier play and sound so much better.

The trem is well made and looks great but WHERE ARE THE SCREWS to mount the dang thing??? Nope, guess what you have to buy them separately. Womp womp. Thanks Fender.

Perfect for what I wanted. I'm modding a Rogue guitar, and have replaced a lot of (Very cheap quality) parts that came on the guitar with Fender parts. Still a lot cheaper than buying a Fender guitar, I get to make it how i want it and also a fun project. This bridge is great stuff. Twice as heavy and better made than the factory rogue one. I was expecting have to drill holes in the body, but it fit perfectly with the holes already. It's a very well made bridge, the saddles are smooth and came virtually intonated except for a slight mid height raise. Between this and a Tusq nut, it stays in tune phenomenally. From what I can tell it actually has made some tone improvements too. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another on the future.Seller was great, very quick on delivery and was well packaged too.

Huge upgrade over the poor quality trem and block that comes on most of the import guitars. If your guitar has a full size body (squire stnd or classic vibe) then it s a quick and easy upgrade that actually makes a difference and doesn't cost much. Be aware, this WILL NOT FIT on a squire bullet or affinity series.