Anyone Prefer Plastic Bridge Pins on Some Martin Guitars?

[Wade Hampton]

Originally Posted by JayBee1404

My pin-bridge guitars have all had the pin-holes slotted and I'm using solid pins. But, before they were slotted, the manoeuvre you're describing would have been impossible in any of them - the string and reversed pin would not have gone in the hole for the pin to sit correctly. It might work on old guitars with worn pin-holes - I'll take your word on that - but on my guitars in the first few years of their life? Nah!

Okay. It's not mandatory, in any event!

Seriously, I've never had any trouble getting the pins and strings to fit into their pinholes when I've reversed the pins, but this has always been with factory-made guitars. On the four totally custom guitars that I own, I went with solid pins with slotted pinholes to begin with.


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[TJChapin]

Interesting that my much more expensive d18 GE and HD35 came with plastic pins and my 00015m at over less than half the price has ebony...