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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 |
Putting a real bone saddle in my Taylor 12 helped immensely. I don't know why in a fine guitar they use those plastic saddles. You lose a lot of grunt in the sound. Just left the stock Taylor nut on there though as the shape seems ideal -- probably would help to have a bone nut but just doing the saddle is well worth it.