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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Do you guys that get this done have it done at your local luthier? I noticed from checking around the web that there are different kinds of bone to be had for this project.
Is one bone better than another? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Fossilized. |
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Location: big island | bone from a former living organism is best. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | This is one of those questions that won't ever be answered. Too religous.
Go to www.guitarsaddles.com and look around. There are tons of choices: Bone (which in reality means Chinese cow bones), ivory, fossilized walrus ivory, Tusq, etc, etc, etc, etc.
I put an ivory saddle on my Taylor last year. No particular reason...just thought I'd do it. Can't say I can hear any difference. But it does look nice.
Some guys claim they can hear the difference. I have my doubts. If anything, they are probably hearing the difference between a carefully hand fit saddle and one pulled from the parts bin at the factory. But maybe I'm wrong. Who knows.
This is certainly a DIY operation. Nothing too it. The absolute worst thing that could happen to you is that you spoil your new saddle. You aren't going to hurt your guitar. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | >>This is certainly a DIY operation. Nothing too it. The absolute worst thing that could happen to you is that you spoil your new saddle. You aren't going to hurt your guitar.<<
I've DIM for years. Now I prefer to write a check. :D Thanks for great info, though. |
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Location: ranson,wva | im not sure what the nut and saddle is on my adamas but im positive its not derlin, im thinking bone or graphtec.....the acoustic's ive got ive put bone saddles in them. not to big of a job. i use a drillpress vise to hold the blank for trimming and shaping....jason |
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Location: Germany | Which material is used by the factory for the acoustic only models (like #47)?
Karl |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I believe they are using TusQ |
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Location: ranson,wva | isnt TusQ a synthetic bonelike matieral?? jason |
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| If signal transfer is the objective, then 'fossilized' might actually be the best natural material. Someone somewhere has probably done acoustic tests for signal transfer. Be interesting to see the results.. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I've got a 52 year-old knee cap that's fixing to come off. LOL!! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Oh, the thigh bone's connected to the - knee bone. The knee bone's connected to the - bridge plate..."
Goober, that would be you all over! Great song to scare the Grandkids with. |
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