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Post by saltyseadog on Feb 5, 2020 13:07:46 GMT -5
The high D string on my resonator has cut pretty deep into the maple top on the saddle, found my grand daughter trying to tune it the other day. Anyway first thought was a like for like replacement but then wondered what other materials you guys prefer for resonator sadlles.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 5, 2020 16:12:25 GMT -5
Any hardwood will work, but I like bone, Corian, or Tusq for them because it's harder and doesn't cave in like wood sometimes can.
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Post by jefe46 on Feb 6, 2020 0:25:18 GMT -5
Check with Beard for a maple/ebony saddle. Cheap and excellent
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 6, 2020 9:35:55 GMT -5
Gold Tone too.
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Post by Wrnchbndr on Feb 6, 2020 11:31:44 GMT -5
Minimal mass with highest strength for volume. But different materials will effect the tone -- I suspect more than on a conventional acoustic but but quite know why I feel that way -- intuitive BS.
I've taken a maple saddle on a resonator and installed vee-shaped bone inserts using CA. I've also installed vee-shaped inserts using some bloodwood. Its really simple to just use a 3 or 4 corner file and cut a vee at the mark or slot where the string is and cut into the saddle about 1/8". Shape your donor insert to fit the vee, glue it in place, and then sand your insert to fit the profile.
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Post by saltyseadog on Feb 6, 2020 14:30:40 GMT -5
Minimal mass with highest strength for volume. But different materials will effect the tone -- I suspect more than on a conventional acoustic but but quite know why I feel that way -- intuitive BS. I've taken a maple saddle on a resonator and installed vee-shaped bone inserts using CA. I've also installed vee-shaped inserts using some bloodwood. Its really simple to just use a 3 or 4 corner file and cut a vee at the mark or slot where the string is and cut into the saddle about 1/8". Shape your donor insert to fit the vee, glue it in place, and then sand your insert to fit the profile. That's a good idea, I may settle for that in fact. My op was intended to elicit responses on the tonal responses of bone, or tusq, maple or ebony in regard to spider bridged single cone resonators?. |
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Post by jefe46 on Feb 8, 2020 23:17:43 GMT -5
There is a reason Beard suggests, and sells, and uses ebony on maple.
I just sent a maple/ebony set of saddles to a friend and reso player.
He says it greatly improve tone and volume.
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Post by saltyseadog on Mar 5, 2020 13:32:49 GMT -5
I eventually got round to fixing this saddle last week. I kept the maple capped ebony half saddle for the D-G-D strings as is and on the damaged maple capped other half for the G-B-D strings I managed to seperate the ebony part and the damaged maple part. I had a small part of the original maple plate I had bought in my toolbox along with a lot of ebony cut offs from the fingerboard I made when building my acoustic a few years back. The piece of maple was long enough but only 5 or 6mm wide and by the time I had shaped it and filed a slot there would have been very little maple on the high D. So I decided to go the other way and use the maple on the bottom and the ebony on top which gave me more wood to work with. Results were very good especially the high D is not as bright as before which I like as I always thought it was a shade too bright with the old maple cap. So all in all a job well done.
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