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Originally Posted by jazzguy
Hi all - I have no affiliation with MacNichol.com but decided to try their bone saddle for Taylor guitars. I usually have used Bob Colosi saddles (also good).
The bone saddle from MacNichol looks almost identical to the Tusq saddle that come standard with Taylor guitars (in my case a 2013 522 model), only it is bone. Wonder if he uses some sort of CNC to build? The saddle took very minor sanding on the bass side edge to fit and very slight width sanding on the side that faces the neck. Slipped it in and WOW!! Very nice! Great articulation and sustain. And inexpensive! Actually took a lot less work than the Colosi saddle (no offense Bob C - your saddles are great).
Just thought I would pass this along to anyone considering a bone saddle upgrade for their Taylor. Here is the link to the bone saddle page. Pick the one specifically for Taylor guitars.
http://macnichol.com/catalog/accesso...guitar-saddles |
Looks good. I was going to order one when I noticed the profile is different than the stock Taylor saddle. It is similar to the wave saddle, but not a direct copy. I'm sure most people will be happy with it, I just wanted to point out the profile will not be carbon copied like Colosi's are said to be. I am very picky about intonation so this stops me from ordering one.
Stock Tusq saddle on most Taylor's with only the B string compensated:
Wave fully compensated saddle, simliar to standard compensated saddles and looks like a close match to MacNichol's:
MacNochol's saddle:
