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There's a slight chance that you might not like the tonal results
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RR wrote:
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Originally Posted by rrgguitarman
This is very true.
I've purchased bone saddles for my Taylors only to take them off to put the Tusq back on because I didn't care for the "change" in tone.
My Larrivee L-03WL on the other hand really benefited from the change to bone.
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Funny you should mention that....my standard practice whenever I get a new guitar is to wait a few weeks to let it settle down to the environment, then take it in to my repairman to get it set up. Part of that process is to replace the nut and saddle with bone.
The guitar that rejected the bone saddle
most emphatically was my 1998 Larrivée OM-03W. It went from sounding great to sounding unbearably harsh and brittle just with that addition.
I put a factory stock GraphTech saddle back in it, and it resumed its sweet tone.
This just goes to show how very individual the responses of these guitars can be.
Wade Hampton Miller