Show and Tell. Your homemade jig for sanding saddle.

[Rodger Knox]

I have cut several nut and saddle blanks from bone, and you have to be on a really tight budget for precut blanks not to be worth the price. If I LIKED making my own blanks, I'd still be doing it, but there's nothing about the process I like, and I REALLY dislike the smell.

[mirwa]

Originally Posted by stormin1155

The bone is completely stripped of marrow and any other icky stuff, then bleached and sterilized. They look like this.

Cool,


None of the bones I have seen in pet stores here in australia look like that one.

That will do the job, no problems.

Steve

[mirwa]

Originally Posted by Hot Vibrato

The bones I use have not been treated or bleached. The cow femurs that have been given to me have been sitting for years. I cut them in half long ways and let them dry out, sometimes in the sun. Once they're rendered into usable blanks, they work just fine. I can't tell any difference between my "homemade" blanks and the ones from LMI or Stewmac, except my unbleached blanks look much more appropriate on a vintage guitar.
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All good, I was envisaging, bones as I can purchase them, full of marrow and raw, I have taken these bones and turned them into nuts as an experimental process rather than for practicality.

Took a long time (IMO) to clean and degrease them of all fats.

Steve

[redir]

I used to make my own linings too but the cost in time of setting up a saw, prepping wood, and doing the actual cutting just made it ridiculous when I can just buy them for a few dollars.

Same goes with bone for me