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Maybe it's just jags I've played as they don't have much tension across the bridge but the strings all bunch up into the middle.
If a Jag is strung with the type of thick strings they were designed to be used with (I'm talking treetrunks - I used 13s on mine) then they stay in fine. It's only when people use them with 11s, 10s, and 9s that they tend to jump out.
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If you like to thrash your Fender avoid saddles without grooves for the string to sit in. Ugh, and those multi-grooved saddles that the jags come with in the pic. Maybe it's just jags I've played as they don't have much tension across the bridge but the strings all bunch up into the middle.
Steel and brass have different densities so sound slightly different. Brass should have more sustain, too. This is definitely way out of my geek league to worry about though. Play in a rubbish venue with a rubbish engineer and nobody will care what the saddles are made of.