Buffalo bone Saddle - Hand Carved - Tailored to Suit

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Your guitar saddle plays a very important part in transmitting the vibration of the strings into the guitars body where it is turned into sound. We supply a complete design and manufacture service ensuring that you end up with the best possible sound and playability from your guitar. Material , Manufacture, Advice and Communinmcation This saddle is hand made from high density buffalo bone and is for use on steel strung acoustic guitars - we can also substitute ebony or horn for bone. We make the parts using precision measurement, precision jigged routers, grinders and saws coupled with careful hand finishing and polishing. An accurate, high quality manufacture results. We communicate closely with the buyer to make sure we get the right specification and you recieve the full benefit of our knowledge of guitar saddles. We supply a comprehensive advice sheets for fitting. Your saddle replacement is in good hands.We have the right experience of manufacture and we know what a guitar needs to give the best tone and intonation. Design based on existing Saddle ........ Often we base the design on you existing saddle - just send it too us, or precisely measure it - and provide any ammendements . ...... or a Completely New Design As part of this offer we offer to completely redesign your saddle - all we need is the saddle length and saddle slot width , the fretboard radius - we happliy send out fit checkers and radius gauges to make this job easy. Saddle slot depth is difficult to measure so its best to work from an estimate - and the saddle trimmed on fitting to accomodate the exact value and achive the desired action. The saddle profile is designed to make the strings sit in an arc which follows the radius of the fretboard with adjustments to ensure the 12th fret action (string to fret distance at 12th fret) of low (bass or thick wound) E is ~0.5mm higher compared to high (treble or thin) E . If you prefer the difference to be more or less than 0.5mm then we can fator that into the desing. The extra action for low E A D is basically to allow the bass strings a little more room to vibrate . This action change is graduated to achieve comfortable feel all the way up the fretboard - the smooth arc of the strings also looks great! We use 3D graphics to visualise your saddle design for you before committing to the build. ....and , if necessary accounting for Neck angle changes (usually for older guitars) As guitars age they the neck often moves forward and the strings may move too far from the fretboard for good playability. Usually the tone of a guitar gets better with age so its worth keeping them going! A normal remedy is to lower the action at the nut and the saddle to make the guitar playable again. We guide you through how to measure the neck angle (all you need is a ruler) and then we can take this into account in your saddle redesign - we also explain the limitations and discuss various options of bridge work if the saddle is as low as it can get. Additional information that is also handy is the desired action (low medium high) and your prefered string gauge. Fitting Recommendations Its recommended that the width is made a bit larger than the existing slot width and its sanded to fit perfectly by the fitter (this is an easy job and we supply an instruction video and the sandpaper!) . Purely acoustic guitar saddles should be a good snug fit to get maximum coupling from the string to the top of the guitar. Electro-acoustic guitars fitted with an undersaddle pickup should have the saddles fitted so that there's even pressure across the length of the pickup - which sits all the way across the bottom of the saddle slot - hence a snug fitting saddle is still desirable but not so tight so at to prevent the saddle bedding down nicley on the pickup. 6 reasons why you might want to replace your saddle 1/TONE TRANSMISSION. Bone, horn or hardwood sa... read more

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