Classical Guitar Bone Saddle. Hand Carved. Design & Model by Chris Alsop. PS096

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;Brand: ChrisAlsopGuitar
;Case Material: Bone or Ebony or Horn
;MPN: PS096
;Parts Type: Bridge/Saddle
;To Fit Guitar: Acoustic Guitar
;Item Type: Parts
;Type: Parts
;EAN: 5060489150783

Classical Guitar Bone Saddle. Hand Carved. Design & Model by Chris Alsop. PS096

Classical Guitar Bone Saddle
Designed and Made By Chris Alsop in his workshops in Derbyshire, UK.

The Materials and Manufacture

This saddle is made from high density bone and is for use on classical guitars. These saddles are renowned to give excellent tone, playabilty and instrument projection.

Design and Modelling

This saddle is designed to suit your requirements and a drawing of the profile is supplied - this is then used to agree the design details before manufacture is carried out.

We communicate closely with the buyer to make sure we get the right specification and you receive the full benefit of our knowledge of guitar saddles.

Saddle Dimensions Choices

Width:
Classical guitar saddle slots vary from about 2 mm to about 2.8mm. If unspecified I provide the width to be 2.8mm. If you want a different thickness (eg 2.4 mm ) then please specify. I can provide the saddle width to a maximum of 3.5mm thickness.

Height:
If unspecified I provide the height to be 8.5mm. I can make the height to a maximum of 10mm (and as low as about 3.5mm).


Length:
If unspecified I provide the length to be 85mm. I can provide the length up to 100mm
The length should fit the saddle slot.

Height Change:
If unspecified I provide the height change to be 1.0mm from Low E to High e

Compensation Shape:
The saddle can be non compensated, or G compensated, and if desired B and D compensated. Please see photos at end of listing to see different types.
Compensation slightly alters the pitch of the fretted notes from each string, by altering the vibrating length of the string by moving the string contact point on the saddle. The altered pitch acts to cancel undesirable pitch changes that occur mainly as a result of the string stretching when you push it down onto the fret board for a fretted note.

Profile:
The profile of your saddle should allow a drop off in action from low E to high E of about 1mm to 1.5mm at 12th fret - the strings can be placed a linearly decreasing distance across the flat fretboard or there can be a slight increase curvature to the string profile peaking around the D string which some classical players prefer.

Crown Shape or String Contact:
Your guitar saddle plays a very important part in transmitting the vibration of the strings into the guitars body where it is turned into sound. It is most important to pay special attention to the string contact surface - it should not be too peaked and I make it very highly polished. Often the shape of the peak will be biased to the fretboard side of the saddle.

Design Assumptions

Unless otherwise stated we will assume the following :

Right Handed Saddle
The saddle profile will be a straight line from Low E to High e
The crown is peaked towards the fretboard side for strings other than those that are compensated.

Fitting Recommendations

Its recommended that the width is made a bit larger than the existing slot width and its sanded to fit perfectly by the fitter (this is an easy job and we supply an instruction video and the sandpaper!)

Purely acoustic guitar saddles should be a good snug fit to get maximum coupling from the string to the top of the guitar. Electro-acoustic guitars fitted with an undersaddle pickup should have the saddles fitted so that there's even pressure across the length of the pickup - which sits all the way across the bottom of the saddle slot - hence a snug fitting saddle is still desirable but not so tight so at to prevent the saddle bedding down nicely on the pickup.

6 reasons why you might wish to replace your saddle

TONE TRANSMISSION
Bone, horn or hardwood saddles sound better than plastic ones because harder materials are more efficient at transmitting the strings vibration energy into the guitars bridge and body.


FITTING PRECISION
Often saddles - bone or plastic - are not snug fitting in the saddle slot  and some of the strings energy is lost because of this. A good fitting saddle will always makes an impressive improvement in the tone and loudness.


WEAR AND TEAR
Saddles do wear - often little grooves wear in a well used saddle and these make the transfer of the strings vibration energy into the saddle and bridge less efficient and can cause the string to bind. A new saddle with polished string contact areas - that are the right area as well - massively improve the tone.


LOOK AND STYLE
Our saddles look professional, are highly polished and add to your instruments visual style. Everything we make can be in polished natural bone (yellowy) ,bleached bone (white) ,ebony or dark horn .Other exotic woods such as TAMBOOTIE are also available which can add a very unique touch to your instrument.


BETTER PLAYABILITY FOR LEFT AND RIGHT HAND
Get a better action and playability for the left hand by making the strings follow the fretboard radius. Get the strings in a nice smooth arc shape over the sound hole which helps the right hand.


BETTER NOTE PITCH ACCURACY
Compensation make the notes more accurate - this makes the harmonies between note simply sound better and this results in everything you play sounding better.

Quality Control

We perform many quality control checks during manufacture and prior to dispatch to ensure that you receive a saddle that fits your guitar to your specification. Essentially the better it fits - the better it sounds! It is highly polished - especially where the strings contact it.

FREE WITH THIS ITEM

FREE : Fitting instructions showing how best to install a saddle
FREE : Plenty of abrasives and polishing material - the better the fit the better the tone !
FREE : A choice of the length, width and height to fit your guitar

Classical Guitar Bone Saddles Made by Chris Alsop

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Classical Guitar Bone Saddle. Hand Carved. Design & Model by Chris Alsop. PS096

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