Highwood Guitar Parts

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Overview

Highwood Guitar Parts is a brand specializing in replacement guitar saddles, primarily for Fender-style electric guitars such as Stratocasters and Telecasters. It focuses on contoured vintage-style saddles made from Highwood material, designed to match the appearance of original parts while offering improvements in tone, sustain, and playability. The brand sells through its website, a retail webshop, and international dealers including StewMac and Thomann.

History

Highwood Guitar Parts operates from the United Kingdom with no publicly available founding date or founder details. It has established a dealer network in North America and Europe, with a webshop for direct sales in regions without local distributors. The company maintains an active online presence with product reviews emphasizing performance benefits.

Product Lines

Product Line	Positioning	Price Range
Contoured Vintage Saddles for Strat	Replacement parts for Fender Stratocaster tremolo bridges	$40 - $60
Vintage Saddles for Telecaster	Bridge saddles compatible with Fender Telecaster hardtail bridges	$40 - $60
S-Style Height-Adjustable Saddles	Ergonomic saddles preventing hand injury on S-style guitars	$40 - $60

Manufacturing

Manufacturing location is not specified on the company's sites. Products are produced using Highwood material and sold as finished sets including hardware.

Notable Products

Highwood Contoured Vintage Saddles for Strat (Set of 6) - Fits American vintage tremolo and hardtail bridges, includes mounting hardware and adjustment wrench.
HG-1050 Vintage Saddles - Recessed height-adjustable screws for S-style guitars, sold via Thomann.
Highwood Fender Synchronized Tremolo Saddles - Compatible with Fender two-point and floating tremolo systems.

Reputation

Highwood Guitar Parts is regarded by guitar enthusiasts for providing functional upgrades to vintage Fender bridges, with users noting better sustain, note definition, and harmonic response in reviews. Professionals and repair shops like StewMac and Guitarrepairparts stock the products, indicating reliability for replacements. No significant criticisms appear in available sources, though the niche focus limits broader recognition.

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