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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Can I order a bone saddle and replace the cheap plastic one on my "Wonderful Korean CC057 Celebrity?" Anyone done this? Thanks. Hey, I think Korean women are beautiful too! |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | You could try the search feature above, looking for "bone".
I did and found the following...
On this subject, I always felt that the A/E versions of the guitars didn't sound as good acoustically as the straight Ac versions. A good bluegrass player from North Carolina, Debanjo Rheinhardt, requested a saddle made from bone. We machined some and it really improved the sound, both ac and ec. Of course the saddles were $100 each!(machined to fit the pickup) Quality always costs, don't it?
I was just at a music store and the repairman said that a bone saddle and nut where the best way to go.
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Location: Scotland | Can I order a bone saddle and replace the cheap plastic one on my "Wonderful Korean CC057 Celebrity?"
Unless the guitar uses a separate undersaddle pickup the short answer is no. As far as I'm aware The Celebs use the Ovation Thinline pickup where the piezo element & the saddle are an integral unit. If you want to use a bone saddle you'll have to ditch the entire pickup & install a new undersaddle pickup sucn as a Fishman & a bone sadddle. Synthetic saddles are pretty good as long as they are made from a hard material. It's soft plastic nuts & saddles which eat tone. |
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Bone?????