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Location: Warren,Pa. | My 1115 has a plastic saddle which I want to replace with bone. None of the online sources I see have one big enough; maybe someone here is more resourceful than I am.
I need 1/8"x9/16"x3".
I'm putting K&K p/u's in and I want the best transference of vibration I can get. It wouldn't necessarily have to be bone; I just want something better than plastic.
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Location: NJ | A Tusq saddle will fit. I put one in my Pacemaker.
Keep in mind, that you DO have to cut/shave down the "height" yourself . . . they don't come by size "off the rack" . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Good Selection Bone Saddles |
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| Try Colosi's Custom Guitar Saddles . He has oversize and custom size saddle blanks in bone, elephant ivory, west african hard ivory, and walrus ivory (sadly, no fossilized whale penis). |
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Location: CT | You'll want a bone nut too. The old Adamas' had them, not sure of the new ones. Maybe the factory has some? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | stoomak |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Or Stomach? |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | I once spent several hours sanding and fitting a bone saddle in a 1111 Balladeer. The blank was a lot thicker than the slot and required much work to get it evenly to the right thickness. The final fit was perfect, nice and tight. After doing it I was disappointed that there was no difference in the tone of the guitar, at least to my ear.
I know some here will disagree, but to me replacing the standard plastic saddle with a bone one is a lot of pain with little to no gain. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Everywhere I look...even StewMac...nobody has a saddle 7/16" high. They all go to 15/32". |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I went thru this exercise a few years ago. You gotta be some kinda machine to hear the difference. I think it helps, but it's incremental. Buy hey, you can say you got one made out of bone. In terms of bragging rights you win. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | From my link above... Mammoth Ivory Nut/Saddle Combo:
Fossilized "Wooly Mammoth" Ivory Nut and saddle blank combo. Saddle...4" Long 1/2" Tall 1/8" Wide. Nut...2 1/16" Long 1/2" Tall 1/4" Wide.
Buy Now
$45.95
-This is why I don't post helpful guitar related comments anymore...
... next we'll be hearing it's too much money. |
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Location: NJ | I think his initial post said he was looking for 9/16" . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Just because I don't read other people's posts carefully,
... doesn't mean that they shouldn't be paying strict attention to mine.
( 7/16" mentioned later) |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I do need 9/16";however, I think I'll hold out for the fossilized whale penis.
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Location: west | somebody should start making titanium saddles and nuts - so we don't have to replace them |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | somebody should start making titanium saddles and nuts - so we don't have to replace them
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I say ..make `em of strontium-ferrite magnetic material , keeps them strings firmly in place.. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I just changed out the saddles and nut on my strat with GraphTek. We'll see how it goes. Even though the nut was supposed to be precut for a strat, I still had to do some sanding to get it to fit properly. |
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| Originally posted by bauerhillboy:
I do need 9/16";however, I think I'll hold out for the fossilized whale penis.
John <>{ Colosi also sells ebony saddle shim kits (links on the left hand side of his page). This guy's products have been discussed (positively) quite a bit over on the Takamine board. You can send him your saddle and he'll make one custom from it as a model, from an oversize blank.
Personally, I'd wait for the fossilized T. rex penis - talk about a killer sound. |
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| Speaking of guitar parts.....Mike did you ever get that walnut bridge cover on the deacon? or was it a Breadwinner?? Please post a photo if so. that guitar should look pretty cool.
Randy |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Someday Randy.... Someday :rolleyes: |
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Bone saddle blank: help