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Carbon fiber vs Tusq Saddle....?
Just saw a CA with Carbon Fiber saddle. It literally still has the CF weave on the face of the saddle.
Anyone know what the effect on tone will be if we swapped to a Tusq saddle? Thanks. |
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acoustically I don't notice a difference. But I will say that I needed to get rid of the tusq saddle on my Rainsong because tusk is a natural material and thus imperfect. I tried two tusq saddles and it made the plugged in sound uneven due to dead spots. Put a man-made saddle on and it evened everything out.
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https://graphtech.com/pages/tusq-saddles
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I wonder what they may have mixed into the material for that application. Traditional carbon and epoxy I would expect to wear and groove very quickly.
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Back in the day, Michael from McNichol's (used to be a carbon fiber guitar dealer in the Salt Lake City area), put a bone saddle in the RainSong Shorty I had at the time and did a set-up for me (the guitar came with the action higher than I care for), taming a bit of the "zing" that the guitar had. I liked the tone on it; liked it even better after the bone saddle.
Getting that first Emerald showed me that CF guitars can have a range of tones, just like wood guitars.
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The carbon fibre saddle sounds like an innovation that didn’t become mainstream. Carbon fibre would need work to laminate the carbon fibre layers, cut the laminate into saddle blanks, grind them smooth and grind the compensation slopes. A new injection molded Tusq saddle is inexpensive, about the same as a set of strings. Would love to hear your report on similarities and differences. Cheers.
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I can report back that the Tusq result in greater overtones. It makes the guitar sound a bit brighter.
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