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New Bone saddle for Taylor - MacNichol.com
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
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Taylor 512ce Urban Ironbark Fender Special Edition Stratocaster Eastman SB59 |
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MacNichol is my local store - they offer great, timely service. Highly recommend them!
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Thanks for the heads up I just ordered one for my new 312ce.
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Michael was kind enough to send me one of these high quality bone saddles to try on a Rainsong and they are a bargain at $15.
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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: |
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Regardless of it's sonic merits I find it impressive how precisely MacNichol has machined the bone. I would have thought bone would be prone to chipping but obviously not.
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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. Last edited by David-NJ; 07-08-2014 at 12:25 PM. |
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A large proportion of Taylor players plug and play through the under saddle pick-up ... there is a popular school of thought that TUSQ is a more consistent material than bone for transmitting sound to the UST pick-up. Also, it's cheaper ...
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But in the end people will buy what they think sounds best, and I can't fault them for following their ears, psychosomatics excluded. |
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