I had this idea today out of the blue...I had a spare Fender Telecaster vintage-style bridge lying around doing nothing. I looked at the 51, then the bridge again, and had an idea.

Since I had installed a GFS bridge, I had the original 51 bridge in a ziploc bag. I took it out, measured, and drilled three holes between the saddle holes. I then put the Tele saddles there, and mounted the whole enchilada.

I think it ended up pretty neat, and took me less than half an hour. Check out the pics:




How does it sound? Slightly beefier, with more lower mids and kind of a fuller sound. I know intonation gets compromised, but the sound is just too cool.